New Delhi:

A woman was caught by the police over a decade after she married a series of men and collected a total of Rs 1.25 crore from them in the name of settlement.

Seema alias Nikki, a resident of Uttarakhand, first married a businessman from Agra in 2013. Some time later, she filed a case against the man’s family and received Rs 75 lakh as a compromise.

In 2017, Seema married a software engineer from Gurugram and later took Rs 10 lakh from the man as settlement after parting ways with him.

She then went on to marry a Jaipur-based businessman in 2023, but soon fled his home with jewellery and cash worth Rs 36 lakh. After the family filed a case, Jaipur Police arrested Seema.

Police investigation revealed that Seema looked for her victims on matrimonial sites, usually settling for men who were either divorced or lost their wives. By marrying in different states, she collected a total of Rs 1.25 crore as settlement in various cases.

A railway cop saved a woman from death after she accidentally fell from a moving train while waiting for her children who were left behind. The dramatic rescue at the Kanpur Central Railway Station was nothing short of a miracle after the woman fell between the train and the platform, a video showed.

The incident took place on Friday when the woman was travelling with her family from Kanpur to Delhi. She boarded the train from platform number 1 but her children were left behind. As the train started moving, she cried for help while leaning outside the door of the coach and two cops were running along to make sure she was safe, the video showed.

The woman tripped and fell from the coach and got dragged by the moving train, but in just a few seconds Constable Anoop Kumar Prajapati rescued the woman safely, Inspector Shiv Sagar told the media.

The woman’s family thanked the cop for saving her. 

With inputs from Arun Agarwal

Kanpur:

An eight-year-old boy was killed and a five-year-old girl was grievously injured after a speeding vehicle that went out of control struck them, before crashing into the compound wall of a school, in Kanpur on Monday.

According to the police, all the four occupants of the car, including the driver, were in an inebriated state when the accident occurred outside Thakur Vishambhar Nath Inter College in Tatya Tope Nagar. Empty liquor bottles were recovered from the vehicle later. One person, Shanu, has been held so far, police added.

The deceased was identified as Aryan Sachan, a resident of Gujaini village in Kanpur Dehat. The injured was identified as Khushi from Baisoya village, also in Kanpur Dehat.

“A speeding car arrived outside Thakur Vishambhar Nath Inter College and knocked down two children, who were playing in the area. The vehicle then crashed into the boundary wall of the institute. The two children sustained grievous injuries and were rushed to a hospital. One of them, Aryan, succumbed to injuries while the other child, Khushi, is critical,” Assistant Commissioner Of Police Manjay Singh said.

“Necessary action will be taken against the accused,” he added.

An eye witness claimed that the incident took place around 2pm. The car first ran over the girl and then knocked down the boy, she said.

Local residents staged a protest after a JCB was sent to remove the damaged vehicle and clear the debris in the area.

(With inputs from Arun Agarwal)

New Delhi:

CCTV footage has emerged, showing a woman at a gym in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur on the day she was murdered by her gym trainer, after which her body was buried in a VVIP area.

The woman can be seen inside the gym, wearing a red t-shirt and black pants.

Her body was retrieved on Saturday from near the Kanpur District Magistrate’s bungalow, four months after she was allegedly murdered. The accused Vimal Soni, a gym trainer in the Green Park area, confessed during questioning by the police that he had buried the body of the businessman’s wife in an area which comprises bungalows allotted to government officials. The woman had gone missing on June 24 and subsequent probe had found that she was dead.

NDTV learned that the body was found the body was retrieved from a part of the District Magistrate’s residence which houses the camp office. The other part of the residence is where the bureaucrat lives along with family. A security post is also located next to the spot.

The gym where the accused worked and the women was a member was situated a kilometre away from the spot. The woman was a member there since 2.5 years.

DCP (North Kanpur) Shravan Kumar Singh told reporters said that the woman was allegedly upset over the man’s wedding getting finalised. On the day of the crime, she had come to the gym after 20 days and the duo had gone into the car to have a conversation. An argument ensued during which he punched her in the neck, following which she fainted. He then murdered her.

New Delhi:

A woman’s body was retrieved from near the Kanpur District Magistrate’s bungalow, four months after she was allegedly murdered.

The accused Vimal Soni, a gym trainer in the Green Park area, confessed during questioning by the police that he had buried the body of the businessman’s wife in an area which comprises bungalows allotted to government officials. The man, a resident of Kanpur’s Raipurwa locality, informed the police about the spot from where the body was found after digging the ground.

The woman had gone missing on June 24 and subsequent probe had found that she was dead.

DCP (North Kanpur) Shravan Kumar Singh told reporters said that the woman was allegedly upset over the man’s wedding getting finalised. On the day of the crime, she had come to the gym after 20 days and the duo had gone into the car to have a conversation. An argument ensued during which he punched her in the neck, following which she fainted. He then murdered her.

Mr Singh said it was difficult to trace the man as he did not use a mobile phone. He added that teams were sent to Pune, Agra and Punjab for investigation. He added that they are yet to ascertain if he took the jewellery that the woman was wearing.

Legal action in the matter, registered at the Kotwali district police station, is being pursued after probing all possible angles in the case.

New Delhi:

A passenger train hit a thick piece of wood kept on the tracks on Thursday night in what is being suspected as a sabotage in Uttar Pradesh again. The incident comes a month after an empty gas cylinder was found on the tracks near Prempur railway station in UP’s Kanpur, and 10 detonators were found on a railway track in an attempt to blow up a train carrying army personnel in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district.

Train No. 14236 Bareilly-Varanasi Express running between Delhi and Lucknow hit the two-feet-long piece of wood weighing over 6 kg and dragged it for some distance. It got wedged under the metal wheels, officials said. The train driver, or the loco pilot, managed to stop the train safely, they said.

The incident damaged a signalling device on the tracks, which affected the Lucknow-Hardoi up and down lines and led to loco pilots of other trains to operate with caution.

A first information report (FIR) has been filed with the Malihabad police station.

The nearest railway station issued a warning to station masters, and sent an inspection team to look into the matter. The inspection team and the loco pilot pulled out the wood with great difficulty, officials said, adding it disrupted railway traffic for two hours.

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Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel also came to the site to secure the area and helped remove the thick piece of wood, officials said.

“When the incident was reported by the loco pilot, the RPF found a machete and a piece of wood weighing about 6 kg near the track. An FIR has been filed against unknown people with Malihabad police station,” Northern Railway spokesperson Himanshu Shehkar Upadhyay said in a statement.

The central government has taken recent incidents of sabotage attempts on railway tracks very seriously, and tasked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to look into the cases.

The September incident when detonators were found on the tracks happened near Sagphata railway station in Madhya Pradesh; it targeted the army’s special train travelling from Jammu and Kashmir to Karnataka. As the train passed over the detonators, the loco pilot became alert due to an explosion and promptly stopped the train. No one was injured.

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In another worrying incident, an empty gas cylinder was found on the tracks near Prempur railway station in Kanpur on September 22. The driver of a freight train had to apply emergency brakes to stop it.

The NIA has begun a preliminary enquiry to ascertain any sabotage angle in recent train derailments and accidents, officials said on Friday, news agency PTI reported. Nothing concrete has come up so far to suggest there were sabotage attempts in these train derailments or accidents. The NIA is looking into four such cases.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had last month said the railway administration was on alert against potential train sabotage attempts, and was holding talks with the authorities including the NIA and police in several states.

Kanpur:

An FIR was registered on Thursday against eight final-year engineering students of Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU) on the charge of attempt to murder for allegedly beating their juniors when they did not adhere to their instructions to “remove clothes”.

The FIR has been registered against the seniors by a third-year student of BTech Electronics at Nawabganj police station, under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder), 115 (2) voluntarily causes hurt, 125 (an act so rashly as to endanger human life), 191 (2) rioting, 351 (3) criminal intimidation and 352 (intentionally insults) apart from ragging charges in this connection, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Dinesh Tripathi said.

All those named in the FIR are fourth-year students.

In his FIR, the student alleged that his classmate got a call from seniors to come with him and another classmate to Abdul Kalam Hostel to enjoy a ‘birthday party” which is a “code language” for ragging.

The situation escalated when the seniors asked them to take off their clothes, which they refused. “We told them that they should be spared as they had already faced ragging in the first year of their admission. Angry over the refusal, the seniors came with sticks, belts, and iron rods and started beating them,” the FIR said.

Instructions have been issued to call the accused students. They will be questioned to work out the case, the DCP said.

The HBTU administration has also started the inquiry into the matter to ascertain whether it was a ragging case or not, said an official.

In ragging, generally, first-year students are victims but in this case, the FIR was lodged by the third-year student against final-year students, he said. 

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Residents of a housing society in an Uttar Pradesh city were in for a shock when a crocodile found its way to their habitat, prompting an unusual call to police and forest officials.

The incident was reported Saturday afternoon from Surya Vihar Society in Makdikheda.

Tied in ropes, mouth wide open, mobile cameras were seen thrashing the air to click pictures of the prized catch, show videos from the scene.

After the initial panic, the scene quickly transformed into one of curiosity and amazement, with people thronging the area to get a glimpse of the unusual visitor.

“What is that? A crocodile,” a young child can be heard on the video. 

A group of children, playing cricket, noticed the reptile emerging out of a drain and informed people, who in turn relayed the information to authorities.

Soon, the forest officials were also informed about the visitor.

After an effort of a few hours, the locals managed to catch the reptile using a rope.

The forest officials have transferred the animal to the local zoo.

The area where the crocodile was found is situated near the Ganga river. During rainy season, the animal often find its way to residential societies.

Earlier, on September 16, residents of Sambharpur village near Kanpur discovered a 7-foot crocodile on Singhpur-Mainawati Road. The shocked residents alerted the police and the reptile was secured using a rope.

(With inputs from Arun Agarwal)

Kanpur:

A couple in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur has duped dozens of elderly people of Rs 35 crore by promising to make them young through an “Israel-made time machine”. 

Rajeev Kumar Dubey and his wife, Rashmi Dubey, opened a therapy center – Revival World – in Kanpur’s Kidwai Nagar area, saying that a machine will be brought from Israel that would transform a 60-year-old into a 25-year-old.

They promised their customers that they could restore the youth of the elderly through “oxygen therapy”, police said.

The couple, who lived on rent in Kidwai Nagar, deceived people by telling them that due to polluted air, they were rapidly becoming old and that the “oxygen therapy” would make them young in a few months.

“They offered packages for Rs 6,000 for 10 sessions and Rs 90,000 for a three-year reward system,” senior police official Anjali Vishwakarma said.

Renu Singh, who was one of the victims of the massive scam, filed a police complaint, alleging that she was cheated of Rs 10.75 lakh. She also alleged that hundreds of people were duped of about Rs 35 crore.

Based on her complaint, the police registered a case against the accused under section 318(4)(cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and are on the hunt for the couple. 

It is suspected that they have now fled abroad.