Gurugram

The local police registered a case on October 15, 2014, under sections 361 and 363 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Gwalior’s Inderganj police station.

“The victim lived near the railway station with her four siblings and parents. They survived on begging. The parents have identified the clothes recovered from the spot where the skeletal remains were found,” said Singh.

The investigators also recovered the girl’s clothes and nails, which have been sent for a forensic examination.

“The Gwalior police team informed us on Monday about the skeletal remains. One of their teams is already here for questioning and will take the accused man on a production remand for further investigation in his alleged involvement in the four cases which were registered at the Government Railway Police station, Inderganj, and Kampoo police station. In most of the cases, he buried the clothes of the victims to escape arrest,” Singh said.

Kumar, a daily wage labourer, was arrested from Magarpur village after the police got a tip-off. During interrogation, he allegedly confessed to the police that he raped and killed at least 15 other girls over the last seven years in Gurugram, Delhi, Jhansi and Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh, and Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.

Police said Kumar, who lived in Mahoba, visited Gurugram to meet his mother and two sisters who work as domestic helps. He would visit his brother-in-law in Jhansi and a distant relative in Gwalior.

On November 23, Kumar showed the police several spots from where he had kidnapped minors in Jhansi and Gwalior. He will be taken to those spots again by the Gwalior Police after they get his custody.

Dharmendra Kushwah, subinspector of Kampoo police station, Gwalior, said DNA test reports of the forensics are awaited and they are also looking at other cases where minors went missing in mysterious circumstances. “We are showing his picture to the people at railway stations and community lunches to get more clues regarding the case. There is a possibility that he would be involved in more cases,” said Kushwah.

Kumar will be produced before a Gurugram court on Wednesday and the city police are likely to demand extended custody for further investigation. “We still have a lot more evidence to collect from different locations from where the incidents were reported. We need reports from the Madhuban Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and technical team for better legal scrutiny before filing the charge sheet. Usually, the charge sheet is filed within 90 days, but we hope not to wait for that long,” Singh said. dives-india relationship is on a better footing,” he said.

Beijing poured billions of dollars into infrastructure projects and Solih’s aides have said the Chinese debt could be more than $1.5 billion, or more than a quarter of the Maldives’ annual GDP.

“Yameen has taken the country to the brink of bankruptcy. We need urgent assistance to (cope with) the budget issues we are having,” he said. He added the new government of the Maldives is looking for “generous assistance” from India and other countries for coping with this debt and delivering on promises it has made to the people.

Shahid also said the Maldives will retain two Indian military helicopters, which Yameen wanted to return to India. “They are being used for humanitarian purposes… We are grateful to India for providing these. We will continue to engage with India for all our needs and requirements,” he said.

A statement from the external affairs ministry quoted Swaraj as saying that India attaches the “highest importance” to its ties with the Maldives and in line with the government “Neighbourhood First” policy, and New Delhi is ready to fully support Male in terms of socio-economic development.

The statement quoted Shahid as reiterating his government’s “India First” policy and saying that the Maldives looks forward to working closely with India on all issues.

The foreign ministers agreed Solih’s state visit to India will take place on December 17. They also discussed ways to strengthen the bilateral development partnership. “India assured the Maldives of support in implementing its development priorities and in ensuring fiscal and budgetary stability,” the statement said.

Swaraj and Shahid also discussed security and defence matters, including ongoing projects and new areas of cooperation. They agreed to hold the next meeting of the Defence Cooperation Dialogue in the first half of December.

Shahid, who was accompanied by finance minister Ibrahim Ameer and economic development minister Fayyaz Ismail, also met defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman. approval to this, according to documents seen by Hindustan Times.

However, Verma subsequently seems to have changed his mind.

The CBI official cited above said Alok Verma visited Madurai on June 7 for the inauguration of a new CBI branch there. During the visit, he “reviewed cases under the Chennai branch and orally issued instructions to reopen the case and conduct a fresh investigation.”

This is borne out by the case file sent by Praveen Sinha, the additional director currently heading the Chennai branch of CBI, to the acting director on November 8. Sinha’s file notings clearly mention the oral instructions of Verma in June, and seeks permission to go ahead. Hindustan Times has seen the file notings of Sinha.

It isn’t known why a case file ordered to be reopened by the director in June did not move till November.

In response to Sinha’s request, Rao cited his earlier decision taken on March 13 and ordered closure of the case.

In response to a detailed email from HT seeking response as to whether the decision taken by the acting director to bypass the oral instructions of Alok Verma was a violation of the Supreme Court’s directions, the CBI spokesman said: “After the investigation in the case, for want of evidence, it was decided on March 13, 2018, by director Alok Verma to close the case. Now the matter was brought before the interim director for re-investigation into the case. Had the interim director approved reopening of the investigation, it would have amounted to a policy decision which would be in violation of the directions of the honourable Supreme Court.”

In October 23, CBI’S director Verma and deputy Rakesh Asthana were both divested of their responsibilities after a bitter internecine war between them threatened to split the agency down the middle. Verma challenged his removal in the Supreme Court. At the time, the court said that Rao would not take any policy decisions.

When asked to clarify on the oral directions of Alok Verma in June to reopen the case, the spokesperson declined to add anything to his statement. shook the world, and Congress was using that to play a game of winning elections.”

His remarks drew sharp reactions from the Congress, which condemned and rejected “the utter falsehood”.

Modi alleged that the same Congress, which once preached the message of patriotism, questioned India’s surgical strikes on Pakistani soil during NDA’S rule and asked for video evidence. “Does a solider go to the battlefield with a camera?” Modi asked.

In September 2016, the Indian Army announced that it attacked terrorists’ camps along the Line of Control using ground forces and inflicted “significant casualties” on terrorists in retaliation of a deadly attack on a military base in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri in on September 18 that year.

Later in the day, the Congress launched a spirited counter-attack on the Prime Minister at a time when India’s politics was heating up during the ongoing campaign for elections to five states and ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

“The truth is, the Modi government has compromised our national security and in the last four-and-a-half years. Lack of political action and policy has led to a disquiet border and an alarming internal security situation,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a statement.

“Today in a public rally in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, PM Modi turned history on its head and said that he never played politics on national security,” he added, alleging that the Prime Minister and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) always used the “blood and sacrifice of our jawans as a vote garnering tool”.

Senior Congress leader and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, “Our dear citizens were lost due to acts of grave terror. I can only hope that saner elements will prevail in India and Pakistan.” Terror, he said, achieves no purpose.

At his rallies on Monday, Modi also said India will never forget the 26/11 (November 26, 2008) attacks or its perpetrators. “We are looking for an opportunity... the law will take its own course, I assure the people of the country.”

India welcomed the US statement asking Pakistan to uphold its UN Security Council obligations to implement sanctions against terrorists responsible for the Mumbai attacks.

Pompeo, in a statement, expressed solidarity with India and said the “barbarity of 26/11 shocked the entire world”. He noted that six American citizens were among the dead.

“It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have not been convicted for their involvement,” he said.

Pompeo said the state department’s Rewards for Justice programme was offering a new reward of $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of any individual involved in planning or facilitating the attacks. This is the third such bounty offered by the US after the state department announced rewards of $10 million for LET (Lashkar-e-taiba) founder Hafiz Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, a senior leader of the terror group.

The Trump administration has suspended $1.66 billion in security aid to Pakistan for not taking decisive action against terrorists operating from its soil and spearheaded a move that put Pakistan on the watch list of the Financial Action Task Force.