Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother, Faisal Malik, will appear in court in Guildford today.
Sara Sharif. Pic: AP
Three people have been charged with the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.
Surrey Police said the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges against Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking.
They have also been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.
All three will appear before magistrates in Guildford today.
They were arrested on Wednesday evening at Gatwick Airport as they disembarked a flight from Dubai.
In a statement, Surrey Police said: “Sara’s mother has been informed of this latest development and is being supported by specialist officers.”
The 85-year-old victim, who was staying alone in a slum, alleged that a man barged into her living area around 4 am and raped her, the panel said.
The DCW has sought an action-taken report on the matter by September 5.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Friday issued a notice to the city police in connection with the alleged rape of an elderly woman in Shakurpur area here.
The 85-year-old victim, who was staying alone in a slum, alleged that a man barged into her living area around 4 am and raped her, the panel said.
“She has also informed that the accused punched her face, cut her lip with a blade and tried to strangulate her. There are injuries all over her body and private parts as well,” the panel said in its notice to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) district.
The panel has sought a copy of the FIR registered in the matter along with the fact whether the police have a list of all the elderly people living alone in the district.
Black people were targeted by a ‘white man in his early 20s’ in a store in Jacksonville.
A gun painted with swastikas. Pic: Action News Jax 2
Three black people have been killed in a “racially motivated” shooting in Florida.
Two men and one woman were shot dead in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville by a man in his early 20s in what the mayor has called a “hate-filled crime”.
Jacksonville’s sheriff said the suspect, an unidentified white man in his 20s, “targeted black people” in the shooting before killing himself.
“Plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people,” Sheriff T K Waters said at a news conference.
Sheriff Waters said the gunman used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 style rifle emblazoned with swastikas during his killing spree which occurred shortly before 2pm local time.
Residents talk with Jacksonville police officers near the scene. Pic: AP
The gunman reportedly left several manifestos littered with racial epithets detailing his hatred of black people.
Sheriff Waters added there was no indication that the attacker was part of a larger group.
He had driven from neighbouring Clay County and had sent his father a text message telling him to check his computer.
The father found the writings and the family called 911, but the shooting had already begun.
Earlier, Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but did not give a precise number.
Numerous police officers were in the area near Edward Waters University, a small historically black university.
“This is unacceptable,” Ms Deegan told the station. “One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”
Jacksonville City Council member Ju’Coby Pittman told the station the gunman is dead. She did not give further details.
“My heart is heavy. I am tired of all of the shootings,” she said.
Sherri Onks, the special agent in charge of the Jacksonville FBI office, said federal officials had opened a civil rights investigation and would pursue the incident as a hate crime.
“Hate crimes are always and will always remain a top priority for the FBI because they are not only an attack on a victim, they’re also meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community,” Ms Onks said.
51-year-old & his wife have been sent to 14 days’ judicial custody. Defence counsel says the accused underwent vasectomy in 2005. Medical report on whether it’s intact awaited.
Suspended rape-accused Delhi government official and his wife detained by Police in New Delhi | Photo: ANI
New Delhi: A now-suspended deputy director in the Delhi government’s Department of Women and Child Development (WCD) and his homemaker wife, who are accused in a case of sexual assault of a minor, were sent to 14 days’ judicial custody Wednesday.
According to the FIR registered in the case on 13 August, based on of the statement of the 17-year-old minor, the 51-year-old suspended WCD officer had not only sexually assaulted her when she was living at his Delhi house under his guardianship, but also molested her in the church attended by both families. The minor had also accused his wife of feeding her abortion pills following the assault at their house.
ThePrint has a copy of the FIR.
On Tuesday, defense counsel Umashankar Gautam said that the accused had undergone vasectomy in 2005. A medical report on whether the vasectomy remained intact is awaited and the next hearing is scheduled to be held on 6 September.
“After my father’s death on 1 October, 2020, my mother and I got depressed. I went to my uncle’s house [the minor referred to the accused as mama or maternal uncle] to divert my mind and started attending online classes from there [the minor was enrolled in an open school, according to police sources]. From November 2002 to January 2021, uncle raped me. He would touch my private parts,” states the FIR.
The FIR goes on to detail that the minor was left with swelling in her private parts after the first instance of sexual assault and that the accused’s wife, who is also an accused in the case, blamed the minor when she told him about it.
“She [the wife] was strict and would hit me when I would score less marks. The last time he sexually assaulted me was in January 2021 after which I missed my periods [indicating that she may have been pregnant]. Aunty said that they will get [an] abortion done since it’s the first month and asked her son to get a test kit,” states the FIR.
The FIR adds: “After which they gave me abortion pills and I started bleeding. I told my mother on 16 January [2021, on the minor’s birthday when she visited] to take me from there [though she purportedly did not tell her mother about the alleged assault].”
A mother was beaten to death with a hammer and her young son and daughter were left fighting for their lives Wednesday in a “horrific and senseless act of violence” at their Brooklyn rooming house, police officials said.
The 43-year-old woman and her battered children — a 5-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl — were found inside their cramped room on the second floor of the Sunset Park building shortly before 2 p.m. by cops responding to a 911 call about an assault in progress, the NYPD said.
The officers arrested a 47-year-old man who was trying to walk out of the building, at 52nd Street near 5th Avenue, when they arrived, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said at a news briefing.
The 43-year-old woman and her battered children — a 5-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl — were found inside their cramped room on the second floor of the Sunset Park building shortly before 2 p.m. William Miller
The suspect — who had blood on him — lives in another room of the small three-bedroom apartment with his 9-year-old son, Chell said. Another person rents the third room.
“The incident I’m about to describe to you is a horrific and senseless act of violence which took the life of a married mother of two,” Chell told reporters.
“I think I can speak for all New Yorkers when I say our community, all our prayers are with this family at this time.”
A mother is dead and her young children are fighting for life at a local hospital after a hammer attack in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, sources tell The Post. Peter GerberA person of interest is in custody. Peter GerberPolice recovered this hammer at the scene. NYPD
Harrowing video obtained by The Post showed police officers carrying the bloodied kids out of the apartment.
The mom and her two kids were taken to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn, where she was pronounced dead and the two youngsters were in critical condition, according to cops.
A bloodied hammer was recovered by cops in the building.
The accused, a deputy director in the WCD department, accommodated the girl and her family at his residence following her father’s demise on October 1, 2020.
A Delhi govt official and his wife have been arrested on Monday in the minor’s rape case. ( Image Source : ANI )
New Delhi: A senior government official was arrested by the Delhi Police on Monday after he was accused of raping his deceased friend’s minor daughter for several months and causing her pregnancy. The accused, a deputy director in the Women and Child Development (WCD) department, accommodated the girl and her family at his residence following her father’s demise on October 1, 2020. Police on Monday also arrested his wife for allegedly giving the girl medication to terminate the pregnancy.
Meanwhile, a four-member team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) visited the hospital where the minor girl has been admitted for inquiry into the case, as reported by news agency ANI.
The incident came to light when the girl, presently in Class 12, disclosed the events to a counsellor at a hospital where she sought treatment for an anxiety attack, the police said.
Here’s everything that has happened so far:
The rape-accused official and his wife were arrested by Police. His wife was arrested for allegedly giving the girl pregnancy termination medication.
DCP North District Sagar Singh Kalsi informed that the accused couple has been arrested. He told ANI, “In the case of sexual assault with a minor, we have arrested two persons. One of them is Premoday Khakha, 51 years old, he is a Deputy Director in the Department of Women and Child Development of GNCT and the second accused is his wife, Seema Rani, 50 years old. The investigation is in progress.”
Explaining the facts in the case, he informed that the accused was a local guardian of the victim after her father’s death. “The victim is undergoing treatment and is currently stable. We have arrested Seema Rani as she was also aware of the incident and she has been effective in getting the abortion done. The investigation is in progress,” he said.
Rekha Sharma, the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), said that the NCW has taken suo-moto cognisance of the case. “We will conduct an inquiry into the case. The accused and his wife had kept the girl with them illegally. When an employee of the Women & Child Development Dept of Delhi govt who was also working with DCW doing all this, were the Delhi govt & DCW doing? We are hearing that some people from the government were trying to save the accused officer,” she said, questioning the Delhi government and the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW).
A four-member team of the NCW visited the hospital in Delhi where the minor girl has been admitted. One of the members, Mamta Kumari told ANI, “We came here after forming a committee for enquiry into this case. We went to the office of the Police Commissioner but he did not meet us there. We were told that he is out for some work. We tried to meet the IO but we were told that he has gone to Court. When we came here to meet the victim, we are being told that her mother does not want to meet us…They are doing this to cover this up.”
DCW chief Swati Maliwal sat on a protest at a hospital on Monday after she alleged that she was not allowed to meet the minor girl. “The (accused) Delhi government official has exerted clout that’s why he was not arrested for 10 days by Delhi Police. We have come here to meet the victim but we are not allowed by police to do so,” she told PTI.
Earlier in the day, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ordered the accused WCD official’s suspension and had sought a report from Chief Secretary by 5 pm today.
While speaking to ANI, Mahila Congress President Netta D’Souza said, “It is unfortunate that such a person is in the Woman and Child Development ministry that speaks volumes about sensitivity towards the cause of women and child development. If he’s involved in such a grievous crime, such a person should be terminated and imprisoned. The police must take immediate action. We request the Delhi CM (Arvind Kejriwal) to ensure that the strictest of actions should be taken against such officers.”
Testimony from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s “trusted inner circle” of former executives at his collapsed cryptocurrency empire will be used to prove at an October trial that he misappropriated billions of dollars from his investors to fuel his businesses, make illegal campaign contributions and enrich himself, prosecutors said Monday.
Prosecutors made the assertions in papers filed in Manhattan federal court, where Bankman-Fried is charged with defrauding investors in his businesses and illegally diverted millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from customers using his FTX exchange. He has pleaded not guilty.
The court filing, in which prosecutors describe evidence they plan to present to jurors, came three days after Bankman-Fried was sent to a federal jail in Brooklyn to await trial by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who said there was probable cause to believe he had tried to tamper with witness testimony at least twice since his December arrest.
It also came on the same day that prosecutors filed a streamlined indictment that contains the seven charges Bankman-Fried faces at the Oct. 2 trial — but there’s no longer a campaign finance charge for now, though it could go to trial later if they are found to conform with the terms of an extradition treaty with the Bahamas.
Still, prosecutors said in the latest indictment that Bankman-Fried misappropriated customer money to help fund over $100 million in political contributions in advance of the 2022 election. The indictment said he sought to “maximize FTX’s political influence” and use “these connections with politicians and government officials to falsely burnish the public image of FTX as a legitimate exchange.”
Late Monday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers filed their own court papers related to trial evidence. In them, they asked that the trial judge exclude evidence about the FTX bankruptcy, the solvency of FTC and its affiliated trading platform, Alameda Research, and their ability to pay customers back.
They also asked that the judge ban prosecutors from telling jurors that Bankman-Fried resigned from FTX. They said they may oppose the prosecution’s plans to introduce evidence related to severed or withdrawn counts, such as the campaign finance charge.
Before Friday, Bankman Fried, 31, had been living with his parents in Palo Alto, California, after signing a $250 million personal recognizance bond following his extradition from the Bahamas last December.
Prosecutors recently sought his detention, saying he had tried to intimidate his former girlfriend, Caroline Ellison — the onetime CEO of Alameda Research — by releasing some of her writing to a journalist.
Section 144 has been imposed across Uttar Pradesh after the killing of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on Saturday night. Additional forces have been deployed in Prayagraj district, where the killing took place, and in nearby areas.
Atiq Ahmed murder: Section 144 imposed in all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh
Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) have been imposed in all districts of Uttar Pradesh after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother were shot dead by three men on Saturday night.
Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf were shot dead while they were being taken for medical tests. They were killed in full view of people and the murders were caught on cameras of mediapersons.
Prayagraj district, where the killing took place, is on high alert and additional forces, including the Rapid Action Force (RAF), have been deployed in nearby districts.
#WATCH | UP: Police conducts flag march in Lucknow's Husainabad after the incident of Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf shot dead pic.twitter.com/PkNQmS24Vi
“Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were brought for medical and while giving media byte, three people came as media persons and shot at them where both of them died. Three people have been arrested, they are being questioned. A journalist was also injured as he fell down and a constable sustained a bullet injury,” Prayagraj Police Commissioner Ramit Sharma was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
