The three sons of the Covid victim were hesitant to touch the body, so they brought in an excavator to carry it from their home to the burial site. There, they dumped their father, along with some other waste material.
Delhi carnage: How police made Sajid Khan an accused in his own case
Khan was shot in Northeast Delhiâs Maujpur. When he filed an FIR, the police charged him and five fellow Muslims.
13 Mar, 2021
Sajid Khan, 34, does not remember much of February 25, 2020. The daily wager, who moved coolers for a living, had left for work that morning. On February 23 and 24, Northeast Delhiâs Maujpur had been consumed by communal violence, allegedly provoked by an incendiary speech by BJP leader Kapil Mishra. The third day began with a deceptive calm. By afternoon, the conflagration fomented once again, and a panicking Khan raced from Vijay Park to his home in Kardampuri across the Shahdara drain.
Ludhiana: The Ludhiana unit of Special Task Force (STF) arrested two drug smugglers after 2.17kg heroin, worth Rs 10.05 crore in international market, was recovered from them here on Sunday.
Kamaljit Singh, 32, a resident of Kabir Nagar, Daba, who is bike spare parts manufacturer, and Bhupinder Singh Bhinda, 42, a truck driver of Amar Nagar, were nabbed at a checkpost close to vegetable market near Jalandhar Bypass on a tip-off.
The kingpin of the gang, Rajveer Singh Gill of Amar Nagar, is yet to be arrested.
STF inspector Harbans Singh said, “The accused were commuting in a truck owned by Bhupinder. During checking, 2.17kg heroin was found hidden in a cavity made inside the truck. The accused confessed to have procured the heroin from near the border area in Amritsar.”
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NEW DELHI: Firdaus, her husband and her two children had a ‘normal’ life a year back the couple would spend most of their time attending to the needs of their children and pampering them. But when her husband Furqan was killed in the north-east Delhi riots last year, life for 27-year-old Firdaus turned upside down.
Apart from dealing with economic hardships and uncertainties, she had to deal with many personal setbacks.
Suffering a miscarriage was one of them. She is among several women, who after losing the sole breadwinners in their families, have been pushed to the brink.
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GORAKHPUR: A couple died in dubious conditions just a day after announcing their marriage and were being hurriedly cremated by their families on Saturday morning when police reached the spot on getting information and seized their halfburnt bodies. The family members of both escaped when police reached.
Sources in Sant Kabir Nagar police said, one Sagar and Kanchan of Mudadih village under Dhanghata police station were having an affair since long. On Friday evening, Kanchan reached Sagar’s house and Sagar applied vermillion on her forehead and announced their marriage.
However, the family members of Sagar and Kanchan strongly disapproved the marriage and started beating them.