Officials said the accused, Dharam Pal, a resident of Kasganj district in Uttar Pradesh, was immediately shifted to BJRM Hospital, where he remains in custody. NEW DELHI: A jilted lover who abducted a girl’s 11-year-old brother and threatened to kill him unless she married him was hospitalised after consuming poison during a 22-kilometre police chase…
Families face difficult choices when mentally ill relatives become unmanageable (AI image used for representational purpose only) A 60-year-old man and his friend were recently arrested for allegedly killing his schizophrenic son (38) ‘as he had become aggressive and unmanageable’. The incident has thrown up a larger question: When a person with severe mental illness…
The counsel questioned why police sought only one day’s custody in what he described as a serious offence. NEW DELHI: Counsel for the CJP protester on Saturday questioned the manner in which social media ‘influencer’ Swatantra Bhardwaj was produced before a judge and remanded to one-day police custody in connection with the alleged assault on…
Social media ‘influencer’ Swatantra Bhardwaj arrested. NEW DELHI: Social media ‘influencer’ Swatantra Bhardwaj has been arrested by Delhi Police, a day after he was detained in Uttar Pradesh in connection with an alleged assault on the father of a minor activist during CJP protest.Bhardwaj was remanded to one-day police custody.According to news agency ANI, the…
A student influencer faced threats at Jantar Mantar, and her father was injured NEW DELHI: A Class X student whose short videos went viral during Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests said Friday she was the original target of a group that had come armed with sticks to Jantar Mantar.Speaking to TOI Friday after a CJP…
Swatantra Bhardwaj, 22, was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district. NEW DELHI: A social media influencer whose video claiming he assaulted the father of a student activist went viral had built a sizeable online following long before the clip brought him under scrutiny.Swatantra Bhardwaj, 22, was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district on Friday, hours…
Following a deluge in the early hours of Saturday, various areas in Delhi-NCR are grappling with waterlogging NEW DELHI: Heavy rain lashed several parts of Delhi-NCR on Saturday morning, leaving several areas waterlogged, with the IMD forecasting more showers ahead.The city is likely to receive more rain over the next two days.The city is likely…
New Delhi: Having maintained that over 2,800 people with “criminal antecedents” were part of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest in July and were “identified” using a facial recognition system (FRS), Delhi Police’s own officers say the accuracy of the system is between 60% and 80%, and if an image that is captured is unclear,…
Heavy rain led to waterlogging at IGI airport; 11 flights were diverted NEW DELHI: Delhi Friday surpassed its annual normal rainfall quota with nearly four months still left in the year.Another intense spell of rain continued to put Delhi at odds with the El Nino impact elsewhere in the country. Water flooded stretches near IGI…
New Delhi: Heavy rain led to waterlogging at Indira Gandhi International Airport Friday, forcing passengers to wade through ankle-deep water near the arrival gates of Terminal 3.As a squall with a wind speed touching 76 kmph hit the airport, 11 flights bound for the capital were diverted to Jaipur, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad between 3.30…
