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Indian-Origin Couple, Son And Daughter Found Dead At Home In US

An Indian-origin couple and their two children were found dead in their home in New Jersey.

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Plainsboro police are working to conclude the investigation.

New York: An Indian-origin couple and their two children were found dead in their home in the US state of New Jersey, and police are investigating the matter as a homicide. Tej Pratap Singh, 43, and Sonal Parihar, 42, were found dead alongside their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old in their Plainsboro home sometime after 4:30 pm on Wednesday, the Plainsboro Police Department said.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Eamon Blanchard of the Plainsboro Police Department announced on Thursday that a homicide is currently under investigation.

“On the evening of October 4, authorities received a 911 call requesting a welfare check at a residence in Plainsboro. Upon their arrival, the Plainsboro Police Department discovered four dead victims in the house,” they said in a joint statement.

“This tragedy remains under investigation, and autopsies are being performed today,” they said, adding that an initial investigation determined that there is no threat to the public. Anyone with information or surveillance footage of the area is asked to call the Plainsboro Police Department.

A joint message from Mayor Peter Cantu and Chief Eamon Blanchard, Director of Public Safety, said that the Plainsboro community experienced a heartbreaking loss of life.

“We are all saddened by this tragic event. What happened in our community is beyond comprehension,” stated Mayor Peter Cantu.

Plainsboro police officers are currently working with their law enforcement colleagues to conclude the investigation.

“Please be assured that this is an isolated occurrence and there are no additional concerns for the safety and well-being of the community related to this incident,” Blanchard said.

“Our public safety personnel remain vigilant and resilient and will continue to ensure the safety of the Plainsboro community,” the joint statement said.

As of Thursday morning, the family’s home on Titus Lane still had crime scene tape posted around the lawn, as footage from News 12 New Jersey showed. The family’s remains were discovered when a relative called for a welfare check. At the time, police said they were looking into the tragedy as a possible murder-suicide, the outlet said.

Relatives told CBS News that they were shocked by the family’s deaths and noted that Singh and Parihar appeared to be a happy couple. Singh, in particular, was active in the community.

At the time of his death, Singh worked as a lead APIX engineer for Ness Digital Engineering, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/indian-origin-couple-2-children-found-dead-inside-home-in-us-police-launches-homicide-probe-4456424

NJ Sen. Bob Menendez allegedly took Mercedes bribe after wife-to-be killed man in 2018 car crash: reports

Indicted New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez — accused of agreeing to meddle in a criminal probe in exchange for a new Mercedes-Benz — allegedly took the bribe after his soon-to-be wife killed a man during a traffic accident that left her car too banged up to drive.

Nadine Arslanian Menendez, 56, was the veteran Democrat’s on-again, off-again lover back when she slammed into Richard Koop, 49, as he crossed a road in Bogota, New Jersey at about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2018, according to reports on Wednesday.

Local cops questioned Arslanian briefly, then cut her loose when they figured she was “not at fault,” reported The New York Times.

Menendez’s future wife told cops she didn’t see Koop — but she was driving her black Mercedes fast enough that the collision flung his mangled body to the curb, just steps from his own house.

Koop died almost instantly, the Times said. When his ex-wife went to identify his corpse, she could barely recognize him.

Arslanian’s luxury ride was trashed. She shattered her windshield, and the front end was badly damaged because she careened into a parked car after hitting the man, according to a Bogota police report.

Nadine Arslanian Menendez was Menendez’s on-again, off-again lover back in 2018, when she killed a pedestrian in a traffic accident.
Bogota Police Department
Cops said Arslanian wasn’t at fault for the accident, which left a Bogota man dead.
Bogota Police Department

In stepped her beau, the senior Democratic senator from the Garden State, with whom she was indicted last month for allegedly trading favors to help three New Jersey businessmen and the government of Egypt.

The feds allege that the 69-year-old Menendez — who married Arslanian in October 2020 — agreed to call a senior prosecutor at the New Jersey attorney general’s office and ask them to go easy on an associate of businessman Jose Uribe.

In return, Uribe, a former insurance agent from Menendez’s hometown of Union City, allegedly agreed to finance a brand new Benz, the indictment states.

“All is GREAT! I’m so excited to get a car next week. !!” Arslanian texted Wael Hana — an equally shady Egyptian-American businessman from North Jersey who was also close with Uribe — a few days after Menendez’s alleged call.

By April 2019, she was signing the papers on a brand-new, $60,000 Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.

Arslanian and Menendez — both of whom have been indicted — allegedly got a businessman friend to finance a new Mercedes in return for Menendez pressuring state prosecutors to go easy on a friend of the businessman’s.
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Last month, federal prosecutors indicted the Democratic senator for accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes — including the new Mercedes.
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“Congratulations mon amour de la vie,” Arslanian texted Menendez, the indictment said. “We are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes.”

Both Uribe, 56, and Hana, 40, were indicted alongside Menendez and his wife last month, as was Fred Daibes, a well-known 66-year-old real estate developer and big-time fundraiser for the oft-embattled senator.

Federal prosecutors have said Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, the Mercedes and even exercise machines during a four-year period, starting in 2018.

Both Menendez and his wife have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/nj-sen-bob-menendezs-wife-to-be-killed-man-in-2018-car-crash-reports/

Indonesian authorities hunting foreign national who meditated naked at Hindu shrine

Bali is a predominantly Hindu island with more than 80 per cent of its population practising Hinduism. Balinese people who saw the video found it outrageous and promptly reacted on social media. Photograph:(Twitter)

Authorities of a Bali-based resort in Indonesia are reportedly on the hunt for a foreign national who was seen meditating naked at a sacred Hindu shrine in a viral video. This is not a lone incident to come out of the island nation. In the past, a slew of such incidents have taken place where tourists were seen or caught disrespecting religious places.

This particular case came to light when a Balinese influencer Ni Luh Djelantik reposted a video of a naked man meditating at a Hindu shrine, gaining hundreds of thousands of views.

Source: https://www.wionews.com/trending/indonesian-authorities-hunting-foreign-national-who-meditated-naked-at-hindu-shrine-642446

Iranian Girl in Coma After Being Assaulted, Pulled Out of Train by Cops For Not Wearing Hijab | WATCH

A purported video of the incident shows that the teen, with friends and apparently unveiled, being pushed into the metro by female police agents and then an immobile body pulled out. (Photo: X)

A 16-year-old Iranian girl is fighting for her life after alleged assault by police officers who dragged her out of Tehran Metro for violating the hijab law, rights groups said. The incident came a year after the death of Mahsa Amini that sparked global outrage.

The victim, Armita Garawand, hails from the city of Kermanshah in Kurdish-populated western Iran and is currently a resident of Tehran. She is now coma and is being treated at the hospital under heavy security.

The Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw said the teenager, had been badly injured in a confrontation on the Tehran metro with female police officers.

However, Iranian authorities have refused these allegations and said the girl “fainted” due to low blood pressure and that there was no involvement of the security forces.

A purported video of the incident shows that the teen, with friends and apparently unveiled, being pushed into the metro by female police agents and then an immobile body pulled out.

Hengaw said that Garawand was left with severe injuries after being apprehended and physically attacked by agents of the so-called morality police at the Shohada metro station in Tehran on Sunday. It said she was being treated under tight security at Tehran’s Fajr hospital and “there are currently no visits allowed for the victim, not even from her family”.

IRAN AUTHORITIES ON HIGH ALERT
In the wake of the incident, Iranian authorities were on high alert for any upsurge of social tension. Last year, the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress rules for women, sparked several months of protests that rattled Iran’s clerical leadership and only dwindled in the face of a crackdown that according to activists has seen thousands arrested and hundreds killed.

Masood Dorosti, managing director of the Tehran subway system, denied there was “any verbal or physical conflict” between the student and “passengers or metro executives”. “Some rumours about a confrontation with metro agents… are not true and CCTV footage refutes this claim,” Dorosti told state news agency IRNA.

Source: https://www.news18.com/world/iranian-girl-in-coma-after-being-assaulted-pulled-out-of-train-by-cops-for-not-wearing-hijab-watch-8603346.html

TMC’s Mahua Moitra, Abhishek Banerjee ‘mercilessly’ dragged and detained by Delhi Police

TMC MP Mahua Moitra, General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several other party leaders were detained on Tuesday night after they held a dharna at the Union Rural Development Ministry office in New Delhi demanding a meeting with MoS Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti. The development came as the tug-of-war between the Centre and the West Bengal government over the release of funds to the state intensified with the TMC holding protests in the national capital for the second consecutive day.

Screengrab from a video showing Delhi Police action against TMC leader Mahua Moitra. X/@MahuaMoitra

TMC MP Mahua Moitra, General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several other party leaders were detained on Tuesday night after they held a dharna at the Union Rural Development Ministry office in New Delhi demanding a meeting with MoS Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.

The development came as the tug-of-war between the Centre and the West Bengal government over the release of funds to the state intensified with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) holding protests in the national capital for the second consecutive day.

Moitra and Banerjee, along with party lawmakers, state ministers and supporters including MGNREGA workers, protested at the Jantar Mantar, a day after they held a two-hour sit-in at the Rajghat on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary before being evicted by the police.

They later took out a march to the Rural Development Ministry at the Krishi Bhavan, where they had an appointment with Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.

Source: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/abhishek-banerjee-tmc-leaders-mercilessly-dragged-and-detained-by-delhi-cops-2711168

Mumbai cops receive hoax call of explosives-laden tanker heading towards Goa

An unidentified person called up the Director General of the Police control room in Mumbai in the afternoon and said a tanker filled with explosives was on the Mumbai-Goa highway.

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The Mumbai Police on Sunday received a call claiming an explosives-laden tanker was headed towards Goa, an official said, adding the call turned out to be a hoax.

An unidentified person called up the Director General of the Police control room in Mumbai in the afternoon and said a tanker filled with explosives was on the Mumbai-Goa highway.

Police intercepted the tanker, whose description was given by the caller, at Sangameshwar, 290 km from Mumbai, in Ratnagiri district, the official said. Police checked the tanker but didn’t find any suspicious material and allowed it to proceed with the onward journey, he added.

Further investigation is underway.

Source: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/mumbai-cops-receive-hoax-call-of-explosives-laden-tanker-heading-towards-goa-11012531.html

Two Chinese nationals arrested in Bihar after sneaking into India for second time

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Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Bihar by immigration officials who noted that they had sneaked into the Indian territory, through Nepal, for the second time in less than a month.

They were arrested on Saturday night at the Raxaul border outpost falling in East Champaran district, Assistant Foreigner Regional Registration Officer SK Singh said.

He said during interrogation the foreigners said their names were Zhao Jing and Fu Cong and they both hailed from Jaoxing province of China.

They were found without valid travel documents and claimed to have left their passports at a hotel in Birganj, right across the border, where they had stayed the previous night.

Source: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/two-chinese-nationals-arrested-in-bihar-after-sneaking-into-india-for-second-time-1239882.html

Mumbai: Drugs worth ₹15,000 Cr seized from ship

The seizure was part of Operation Samudragupt, which targets ships carrying narcotics through the Indian Ocean region.

Mumbai: Drugs worth ₹15,000 Cr seized from ship | Representative pic/ Pixabay

Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Indian Navy have in a joint operation seized 2,500 kg of high purity methamphetamine valued around Rs15,000 crore and arrested a Pakistani national after intercepting an Iranian vessel off the Kochi coast.

As many as 135 plastic sacks with “death crescent crystal meth” were seized from the suspect mother ship — large sea going vessels used for narcotic trafficking and gun running for distribution to other vessels in the seas — that had sailed from Makran.

Operation Samudragupt

The seizure was part of Operation Samudragupt, which targets ships carrying narcotics through the Indian Ocean region.

Some of the seized packets carried “Made in Pakistan” seals and were meant to be distributed in India, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, according to NCB deputy director general (ops) Sanjay Kumar Singh.

The Indian Navy got an alert about the mother ship and intercepted the vessel, which had a huge consignment of methamphetamine trafficked from Makran coast off Balochistan. The Navy escorted the vessel to Mattancherry Wharf, Kochi, on Saturday and handed it over to NCB for further action.

“This is the latest major incident of maritime narcotics trafficking on the southern coast in the last 18 months that involves drugs originating from Afghanistan,” said an NCB official.

Drugs seized under the operation

Intelligence sharing between the DRI, ATS Gujarat, Naval Intelligence, NTRO, and NCB led to seizure of 3,200 kg methamphetamine, 500 kg of heroin and 529 kg of hashish as part of Operation Samudragupt, which was launched in January last year.

The initial success of the Operation Samudragupt was achieved in February 2022 when a joint team of NCB and Indian Navy seized 529 kg of hashish, 221 kg of methamphetamine and 13 kg of heroin in the high seas off the coast of Gujarat, all sourced from Balochistan and Afghanistan. Further consistent efforts and round the clock surveillance by the team resulted in the interception of an Iranian boat off the coast of Kerala in a joint operation by the Indian Navy and the NCB in October 2022. A total of 200 kg of high grade heroin sourced from Afghanistan was seized and six Iranian drug traffickers were arrested in the operation.

Source: https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-drugs-worth-15000-cr-seized-from-ship

 

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