New Delhi: Delhi govt has told all schools to implement several child safety measures, including mandatory staff training, stricter compliance checks and coordinated inspections, and set up child protection committees in all 5,633 schools across the capital by the end of July.The aim is to strengthen the protection of students with a better implementation of…
New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy in a 2022 Pocso case, observing that a child of such an age “would never implicate an unknown person without any motive”. Holding the boy’s testimony to be “so natural” that it could not be disbelieved, the court convicted the accused…
New Delhi: Nearly 29 years after a 58-year-old man was found murdered and his body concealed inside a wooden divan box in west Delhi, the crime branch has arrested the prime accused absconding since 1997.Mohammad Fahim was arrested from Thakurganj in Lucknow on July 3. Wanted in the murder case registered at Rajouri Garden police…
New Delhi: Tech majors Google and Meta have told Delhi High Court they cannot proactively monitor and act against the unauthorised publication and dissemination of clips of court hearings.Google LLC, which runs YouTube, and Meta Platforms Inc, which runs Facebook and Instagram, filed their affidavits in relation to a PIL seeking action against unauthorised recording…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has busted a gang that drugged unsuspecting passengers before robbing them of their valuables. The accused would allegedly approach commuters waiting at bus stands, offer them cheap rides in an auto-rickshaw and after gaining their confidence, serve them cold drinks laced with intoxicating tablets. Once the passengers lost consciousness, the duo…
New Delhi: A 35-year-old doctor was found dead inside his duty room in North Delhi’s Civil Lines area Sunday morning. Police found a suicide note which allegedly stated he was ending his life because his parents refused to let him marry his partner.The deceased was a senior resident doctor in the department of anaesthesia at…
New Delhi: A fire broke out at a factory in west Delhi’s Nangloi late Sunday night, triggering a major firefighting operation that saw 20 fire tenders rushed to the spot. No casualties were reported.According to Delhi Fire Services, the fire was reported at 10.20pm.The blaze engulfed a waste storage godown spread across nearly 100 square…
New Delhi: Police on Sunday night registered a case of dowry death and arrested the husband of a 28-year-old woman who allegedly fell to her death from the third floor of an NDMC residential building in south Delhi’s Palika Kunj on Saturday.Prima facie, it appears to be a case of suicide, though the circumstances leading…
New Delhi: Delhi Police held two men for allegedly preparing and selling fake govt documents through a website, bkprint.in. The accused, Bideshi Saw, was arrested from Daman and Diu, while Santosh Kumar was nabbed from Patna.The racket came to light during social media monitoring and cyber patrolling when officials were tipped off about the sale…
New Delhi: An argument over the parking of an SUV allegedly snowballed into the murder of 34-year-old businessman Pankaj Nayyar in east Delhi’s Preet Vihar in April, says the chargesheet filed by Delhi Police in the Karkardooma Courts.The over-300-page chargesheet, filed on Monday, names five accused, including property dealer Gaurav Sharma, who is alleged to…
