Delhi rape: Ram Singh's body released after post mortem

Ram Singh's death in India's most secure jail is a huge embarrassment for the authorities

BBC The body of an Indian man charged over the gang rape and murder of a Delhi student has been handed to his family after a post-mortem examination.
Ram Singh was found dead in his shared cell at Tihar jail on Monday.
Prison officials say they believe he hanged himself. Defence lawyers and his family allege he was murdered.
Mr Singh was one of five men being held in the case, which outraged India. They all deny the charges. A sixth suspect is being tried by a juvenile court.
India's home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the death was a major lapse in prison security. An investigation is under way.
Mr Singh's body was released to his family at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday afternoon after his post-mortem. The results have not been released. 

His body was loaded onto an ambulance and taken away by the family, reports said.

"My brother was murdered. I have seen injury marks on the body and finger marks on the throat," the Press Trust of India quoted his brother as saying.
Mr Singh's death has come as a huge embarrassment for the authorities who are already under enormous pressure over the case.
Tihar jail officials said Ram Singh appeared to have hanged himself with an improvised rope made from a blanket at about 05:00 local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday) while his three cellmates were asleep.
Jail spokesman Sunil Gupta said Mr Singh had not been on suicide watch.
Ram Singh and the four other adult defendants - his brother Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur - have been on trial in a fast-track court. Reporting restrictions mean few details of the trial have been made public.
They accused face 13 charges, including murder, gang rape, kidnapping and destruction of evidence. If found guilty they could face the death penalty.

Ram Singh's parents say he was threatened in prison

The maximum sentence the juvenile would face if convicted would be three years in a reform facility.
The 23-year-old rape victim, who has not been named for legal reasons, was with a male friend when she was attacked on a bus and thrown from the vehicle on 16 December.
She died in a Singapore hospital on 29 December from massive internal injuries.
Ram Singh was accused of being the driver of the bus.
The case provoked nationwide protests and demands for tougher penalties for rapists, as well as greater protection for women.

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Indian teacher allegedly sexually assaulted 14 year girl, arrested

An Indian teacher who allegedly sexually molested a 14 year old girl of a H Dh. Atoll School has been arrested yesterday.
TheVaikaradhoo council has told that the 26 year old man who was the computer teacher for the school was arrested yesterday evening.
The police also have confirmed that they have arrested a man for regarding the case.

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Delhi gang rape protesters clash with police

Police in India’s capital New Delhi have used tear gas and water cannons on people demonstrating in the wake of a brutal gang rape of a female student on a bus last weekend.
Some female protesters were injured after the police charged them when they tried to approach a key federal government building near the India Gate monument in the heart of the capital on Saturday.

Television footage showed several hundred
 protesters shouting, "We want justice", as police struggled to stop the crowd from smashing flower pots and other symbols of the capital's beautification drive.

The government has tried to halt the rising anger over the attack by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.
They include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.
A silent march was also organised in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday.
In the northeastern state of Assam, hundreds of women and girls marched through the city of Guwahati, carrying placards and shouting "Hang Rapists" and "Stop Violence Against Women".
On Friday, hundreds of students and activists blockaded roads in New Delhi and marched to the president's palace, breaking through police barricades, despite the use of water cannons, to demand better safety across the country.
Last week's case - covered intensively by TV news networks - provoked uproar in parliament earlier this week, prompting the authorities to announce measures to make the capital safer for women.
These include increased policing and fast-tracking court hearings for rape.

Six drunken men were joyriding on a bus when they picked up the physiotherapy student and her 28-year-old male companion and took turns raping her. Afterwards, they threw the pair off the speeding vehicle.
Police say the woman was attacked with an iron rod after being raped.
The public verbal and physical sexual harassment of women, known as "Eve-teasing", is routine in New Delhi, which has come to be known as India's "rape capital".
New Delhi, home to about 16 million people, has the highest number of sex crimes among India's cities.
Police figures show rape is reported on average every 18 hours and some other form of sexual attack every 14 hours in the capital.
Five of the suspects were arrested soon after the crime and a sixth was caught on Friday, the Press Trust of India reported.


 

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Delhi bus gang rape Girl in Critical condition

Doctors said the 23-year-old student is conscious and alert and has displayed "an intense spirit to live".
There has been outrage in India after the woman and her male friend were attacked on a bus.
The government has announced a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.
Four people, including the bus driver, have been arrested. Police say they are looking for two more people.
The woman has undergone two rounds of surgery since Sunday and remains on life support, doctors at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital said.
The woman and her friend had boarded the bus from Munirka area and were on their way to Dwarka in south-west Delhi. They were returning after watching a film in a shopping centre in south Delhi, police said.The couple were attacked by "at least four men", police said.
The couple have been admitted to hospital, where the woman is said to be in a critical condition.
Police have arrested the driver of the bus and detained several people.
Delhi's rape figures are higher than for other Indian cities of comparable size, correspondents say.
City shamed, headlined The Times of India, saying that Sunday's incident is a "new low for a city already notorious as India's rape capital".
Savagery Shames City, headlined Mail Today, adding that "horror had revisited the streets of the capital" on Sunday night.
The newspaper said that 582 cases of rape had been reported in Delhi so far this year.
Delhi Shamed Again, said The Pioneer, saying the incident had "again renewed focus on the dismal state of safety for girls and women who venture out at night".
The Indian Express said the bus was driven around on a stretch in south Delhi for more than an hour and had "crossed" three police patrol vans.

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Israel's deadly Airstrike killed several children

The airstrike targeted the home of the Dalou family in Gaza City's Nasser district, reducing it to rubble.
Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead.

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Nine members of the one family died in this blast – all women and children, along with two neighbours who were walking past the house when the missile hit also died.

The Israeli Defence Force confirmed it had targeted the house of a Hamas man, believed to be Mohamed Dallu, who was not home at the time of the attack. His four children died – Sara, 7, Jamal, 6, Yusef, 4, and Ibrahim, 2.

A spokesman would not comment on the air strike or the high number of civilian casualties, except to say the IDF was “looking into the reports”.
At the Jabalya Camp in Gaza’s north, another family was also in mourning. 
With the air strikes intensifying, Salam Ibrahim had gathered his wife and two young children close to him on Saturday night, all of them sleeping in the same bed in their house in a tiny residential street.


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A spokesman would not comment on the air strike or the high number of civilian casualties, except to say the IDF was “looking into the reports”.

At the Jabalya Camp in Gaza’s north, another family was also in mourning. 

With the air strikes intensifying, Salam Ibrahim had gathered his wife and two young children close to him on Saturday night, all of them sleeping in the same bed in their house in a tiny residential street.

 

Israel unleashed its massive air campaign on Wednesday, killing a leading militant of the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza and rejects Israel's existence.
Israel says it is trying to stop militants in the coastal enclave from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.

The Jewish state has launched more than 950 air strikes
US President Barack Obama said it was "preferable" for the crisis to end without a "ramping up" of Israeli military activity,

Nine members of the one family died in this blast – all women and children, along with two neighbours who were walking past the house when the missile hit also died.
The Israeli Defence Force confirmed it had targeted the house of a Hamas man, believed to be Mohamed Dallu, who was not home at the time of the attack. His four children died – Sara, 7, Jamal, 6, Yusef, 4, and Ibrahim, 2.


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Nine members of the one family died in this blast – all women and children, along with two neighbours who were walking past the house when the missile hit also died.
The Israeli Defence Force confirmed it had targeted the house of a Hamas man, believed to be Mohamed Dallu, who was not home at the time of the attack. His four children died – Sara, 7, Jamal, 6, Yusef, 4, and Ibrahim, 2.


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2 US sailors arrested in alleged rape of Japanese woman on Okinawa

Two U.S. Navy petty officers are in custody in Okinawa in the alleged sexual assault and robbery of a Japanese woman in an incident that could further inflame anti-American sentiment on the strategic Japanese island.
The two sailors followed a 27-year-old woman to her apartment complex where they allegedly raped and robbed her in the parking lot about 4 a.m. Tuesday, authorities in Japan said.  A third sailor who reportedly witnessed the assault was taken into custody by Japanese police and later released to the U.S. Navy, according to NBC News.
Police say they have arrested two U.S. sailors in the alleged rape of a Japanese woman in Okinawa that has sparked a diplomatic protest.
Japanese police say the two 23-year-old suspects were arrested Tuesday. They were identified as Seaman Christopher Browning and Petty Officer 3rd Class Skyler Dozierwalker of the Fort Worth Naval Air Base in Texas.

The case has drawn protests from the Japanese government and an outcry on Okinawa, where the presence of U.S. military has long been a sore point. The island hosts more than half the 47,000 U.S. troops in Japan.

"I want to personally apologize for the grief and trauma the victim has endured and the anger it has caused among the people of Okinawa," Angelella told reporters.

Angelella said American military personnel are "held to a higher standard."

Both he and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John V. Roos said the U.S. will cooperate in the Okinawan police investigation. Roos said the U.S. government viewed the situation with "utmost seriousness."

"We will put forward every effort to make sure that incidents like this do not happen," Roos said.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has begun its own investigation, although Japan has primary jurisdiction.

The latest case has inflamed chronic tensions between the U.S. military and Okinawa over base-related crimes and other issues. Okinawans also have been protesting plans to deploy the Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey to a base there because of safety concerns.

Local opposition to the U.S. bases over noise, safety concerns and crime flared into mass protests after the 1995 rape of a schoolgirl by three American servicemen. That outcry eventually led to an agreement to close a major Marine airfield, but that plan has stalled for more than a decade over where a replacement facility should be located.

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Nasheed Encouraged to attack the Police in Leaked Audio

An exposed phone call involving former President Mohamed Nasheed, where he is heard encouraging the organizing of a gang to attack the Police.
The conversation was played at a press conference held at Iskandar koshi today by police, and involves Nasheed and Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) National Council member and MP Mariya Ahmed Didi.
Mariya is heard saying, “Protesters are being pushed back using pepper spray and other things. That’s why we haven’t been able to hold the National Council meeting. We have received another letter at the office, saying that it should be vacated by 10pm tonight. There is nothing more that can be done. The National Council meeting cannot be held, quorum requirement is not met!”
She then asks Nasheed what to do next.
Nasheed replies, “There’s nothing much to do! I don’t really know. What can we possibly do? [...] I think the best thing to do is, if we can get together a fighting gang, to get them to go out and fight. Because I really think that the solution is to fight. If we can get a group, they should be sent out to fight. Find a fighters gang in Male’ and get them to assault the Police. This is what I think is right. I don’t know if we can find such a group. But I want them attacked.”
Police said that the recording was obtained through a Court order following intelligence information received on 29 May, and that the conversation took place on the day the Police attempted to dismantle Usfasgandu.
Following this, several violent attacks were inflicted on the Police on 29 and 30 May.
“Several Police officers who were maintaining the security at the Fuel Supply on Boduthakurufaanu magu were attacked and injured. This includes a female Police officer,” Riyaz said.
Riyaz said that following Nasheed’s phone call, 22 reports were received of Police officers sustaining physical injuries.
Describing the recent attacks on Police, Riyaz said that Police officers have been hit with stones, kicked, and punched. Also, items have been torched and thrown at the Police; and chilli-water packets and engine oil have been hurled aimed at Police officers’ eyes and ears.
Several Police officers have had to obtain treatment abroad for the serious injuries sustained due to these attacks.
In addition, offensive language is often used to address Police officers, and threats have been made on several occasions involving members of their families.

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Police officer stabbed to death

A Police officer on duty in K. Kaashidhoo has died after being stabbed.Lance Corporal Adam Haleem S. Number 2290 Kethi, K. Kaashidhoo was attacked at around 12:00am  at K. Kaashidhoo.He has been stabbed and killed while he was walking to work in his uniform.
An official of Kaashidhoo Health Centre said that Adam Haleem was alive when he was taken to hospital, but died while being treated by a doctor.Senior Community Health Officer of Kaashidhoo Health Centre Yoosuf Sujau said that Adam Haleem had a nine-inch deep stab wound on his chest, and that his condition was critical when he was brought to the Health Centre.
Adam Haleem, 26, is a citizen of K. Kaashidhoo. His permanent address is Kethi, K. Kaashidhoo. He leaves behind a wife and one child who is less than one year old.
Police have arrested a man named Samaah in relation to this crime, who allegedly has a criminal record.
 

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Traffic Violation Criminal Attack Police Officers Family

A traffic violated criminal attacked the police officer and his brother in G.A. Atoll Gemanafushi. According to the media the Police constable was attacked after he stopped a speeding motorbike. Moments after that, some thugs went to the private residence of the constable and attacked him. When his family tried to defend him, they were attacked too.
A police media official said that two brothers of the constable were attacked. “After the constable was attacked, his two brothers were attacked. One of them was stabbed in the abdomen, while the other sustained a broken skull”, said the media official.
The family is now taken to the Thinadhoo the capital island of atoll for the treatment of serious injuries.

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Politically Violent Motorbikers Attack Police

A group of motor bikers attacked police posts in capital Male' including police vehicles and other equipments of Maldives police service.According to the local news the group belongs to Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) who lost the government after a peaceful resignation of President Nasheed.
The gang threatened and attacked police with knives damaging several equipments smashing computer system, damaging vehicles.
The Police also took into custody a group of people at Raalhugan’du area last night, who had attacked a Police vehicle in Henveiru. Confrontations took place between the two parties when Police tried to arrest them.
Attacking the Police and their vehicles has become common practice now. On 1 March, a Police Officer was attacked while riding his motorbike past Male’ City Council, with his motorbike set on fire subsequent to the attack.

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