Month-old child stolen from Chhattisgarh rescued in MP

A seventh-old boy allegedly stolen the Chhattisgarh Institute edical Sciences (CIMS) in spur district was rescued a train in Umaria district adhya Pradesh and three ons, including two women, e arrested, Chhattisgarh e said on Sunday.

The main accused, Rita Yadav, had kidnapped the baby boy from the CIMS and was travelling to Delhi to meet her boyfriend, an officer said. “Bilaspur Police safely rescued the child by arresting Rita Yadav, a resident of Bilaspur district, from the Umariya railway station in Madhya Pradesh with the help of the Railway Protection Force (RPF),” Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Nimesh Baraiya told reporters. The two others arrested are identified as Yadav’s boyfriend Pushpendra and one Hema Kaushik, he said.

The rescued baby was handed over to his parents Ishak Be and Shafar Shah, he said. The ASP said Yadav, already married, was in a relationship with Pushpendra and one Sahil, a resident of Mumbai. “She had lied to Sahil that she was expecting a child from him, following which the latter asked her to come to Delhi. Yadav then started a search for a child (to convince Sahil) and met the victim couple. On the pretext of offering monetary help and arranging treatment facilities, Yadav with the help of Pushpendra took Ishak Be and her child to the CIMS and eventually escaped with the baby.

“In the wake of the incident, a complaint was lodged with the Bilaspur Police and a search was launched,” Baraiya said.

He said Yadav left for Delhi on August 21 with the baby. “Meanwhile, with the help of CCTV footage of CIMS and other evidence, police held Pushpendra and Hema. Based on the inputs given by the duo, a police team with the help of RPF arrested Yadav from a train in Madhya Pradesh’s Umariya.

“I am feeling like crying. Everything is finished. It is a very difficult and painful decision to leave the country. We have not seen such a situation. Everything has been snatched away. It’s all over,” a visibly despondent Khalsa said when asked about the situation in Afghanistan.

Another group of 135 Indians, most of them employees of firms from Western countries that were active in Afghanistan, were flown back from Doha to Delhi on a special flight. These Indians had been flown out to Qatar on US and NATO flights over the past few days.

Taking to Twitter, Farid Mamundzay, Afghanistan’s ambassador to India, thanked India for their messages of support.

“I appreciate the kind words of sympathy and support messages from all Indian friends and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi over the suffering of Afghans in the past few weeks, particularly the last 7-8 days.

“The avoidable suffering of Afghanistan is man-made and at a scale beyond all civilized contemplation. Afghanistan is going through a difficult time, and only good leadership, compassionate attitude and international support to the Afghan people would somewhat bring an end to these miseries,” he tweeted.

“Evacuation continues! IAF special repatriation flight with 168 passengers on board, including 107 Indian nationals, is on its way to Delhi from Kabul,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted hours before the plane landed at Hindon.

As reports emerged of Taliban fighters opening fire and using harsh methods to control thousands of people who have been converging on Kabul airport, the US embassy issued a security alert on Saturday advising American citizens to avoid travelling to the airport because of “potential security threats outside the gates”. The alert asked Americans to “avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a US government representative to do so”.

The alert was issued following intelligence reports that the Islamic State could target Americans in the Afghan capital.

Earlier on Saturday, there was confusion for several hours about the status of some 150 Indians who were to be evacuated following reports that they were rounded up by the Taliban near Kabul airport.

The development was first reported on the website of the Afghan media outlet Etilaatroz and its sister publication Kabul Now, which cited a source as saying that more than 150 people, most of them Indians, had been “abducted”. The outlets subsequently quoted a Taliban spokesman as rejecting the allegations of abduction.

Etilaatroz also reported the Indians were safe and their passports were checked before they were sent to the airport.

There was no official word from the Indian side on this incident. The government has kept all details of the evacuation of Indian nationals from Afghanistan under tight wraps because of operational and security reasons.

People familiar with developments said on condition of anonymity that there were problems when a group of more than 200 people, including around 70 Afghan nationals and the remainder Indians, came to Kabul airport in a convoy late on Friday. The Taliban, who are outside the airport, stopped the group, following which most of the Afghans reportedly escaped.

The Afghan nationals included Sikhs and Hindus, and reports said the Taliban had said they would not be allowed to leave the country.

The Indians were rounded up by the Taliban and taken to an unknown location close to the airport for further checks, the people said. Following inquiries and checking of documents such as passports, the group was sent back to the airport on Saturday afternoon, the people added.

The people said the biggest problem in the evacuation of Indians is the journey from different parts of the city to the airport as Kabul has been taken over by the Taliban, who have set up check posts across the capital. Adding to the worries of the Indian side are reports that terrorists from Pakistan-based groups such as Lashkar-e-taiba and Haqqani Network are also present among the Taliban.

With the civilian side of Kabul airport still closed, all evacuations are being done from the military side, outside which thousands of Afghans have gathered in the hope of getting on board the flights being operated by countries such as the US and the UK. Numerous videos have emerged of Taliban figh opening fire outside the air to drive back crowds.

Speaking to reporters, nath Singh said, “We use tell him (Kalyan) that we ‘bhootpoorv’ (former) c minister, you are ‘abhootpo (unprecedented) chief mini on which he used to laug have seen him as an e brother.”

BSP chief Mayawati also homage to the leader on S day.

Singh’s body was taken t Vidhan Bhavan from his dence in the afternoon. F there, it was taken to the o of the state BJP, party lea said.

On Sunday evening, Sin remains were to be take Aligarh, where they wil kept in a stadium, before last rites on Monday.

The funeral will be formed with full state hon in Narora town, around 60 metres from Aligarh.

Uttar Pradesh announced three-day mo ing and a holiday on Mond

Singh, who also served a Rajasthan governor, admitted to the Intensive Unit of the SGPGI in a cri condition on July 4. He due to sepsis and multi-or failure, the hospital said.

Singh, who was accuse criminal conspiracy in Babri Masjid demolition for it was during his tenur chief minister that the 16th tury mosque was demolis also served as the Rajast governor between 2014 2015.

Appointed the BJP’S U Pradesh unit chief after demise of the party’s first s chief Madhav Prasad Trip in 1984, Singh was tasked countering the Mandal a tion that the BJP’S ideolog fount Rashtriya Swayamse Sangh feared would divide Hindus on the basis of ca Hailed by many for his ad istrative acumen, the infl tial OBC leader from wes UP parted ways twice with BJP and briefly floated his outfits. Born on Januar 1932, Kalyan Singh first bec an MLA in 1967. Since then won the assembly polls sev times, held important pos the BJP and was appoi Rajasthan governor in the phase of his public life.