Delhi crime fact sheet for 2008

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Editors Guild of India has condemned the move of the Delhi Police to prosecute two journalists who had exposed the cash for questions scam involving Members of Parliament (MPs) through a sting operation. The Delhi Police have filed a charge sheet naming Aniruddha Bahal and Suhasini Raj of Cobrapost.com.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Saturday transferred to its Crime Branch investigations of two Metro accidents at an under-construction bridge in south Delhi July 12 and 13. We have transferred the cases to Crime Branch," said assistant commissioner of police Rajan Bhagat.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - An infuriated mob attacked a police station in New Delhi on Tuesday following reports of a woman being assaulted by the some police personnel. The woman, a slum dweller, alleged that she was raped by the Station House Officer and four others in a police station in southwest Delhi and was threatened with dire consequences if she revealed the incident.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi police Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against four suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists, including its media cell head Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, accusing them of involvement in the serial bombings here last year. In the charge sheet filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the Special Cell of Delhi Police sought prosecution of Peerbhoy and his two associates - Mobin Kader Sheikh and Asif Bashir Sheikh - and Mohammed Hakim under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Explosive Substances Act.

April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police filed a fresh charge sheet against a suspected Hizb-e-Islami militant and sought a retrial Tuesday, nearly three months after he was acquitted by a court here. Ayaz Ahmed Shah, a suspected militant, was acquitted by a city court in January after the Special Cell of Delhi Police failed to take necessary sanctions for charging him with waging war against the country under the Indian Penal Code and possessing explosives under the Explosive Substance Act.

April 7th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju and eight others. The 76-page charge sheet was filed before the special court here under various sections of Indian Penal Code for cheating and forgery.

March 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mohammed Mansoor Peerbhoy, a computer engineer who is an alleged key operative of the Indian Mujahideen, the terror outfit blamed for last year's bombings in major cities of the country, was Saturday sent to 10-day police custody by a court here. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja passed the order after agreeing with Delhi Police's contention that they required to interrogate Peerbhoy in connection with the Sep 13, 2008, serial bomb blasts in the capital that killed 24 people.

February 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Mumbai Police plan to file another charge sheet supplementing the one filed against 27 Indian Mujahideen (IM) activists, including six absconders, a top police official said late Tuesday. Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria said the investigations into the aspects of the funding of the terror operations, the source of the funds and the routes taken, are still being investigated.

February 12th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - While the court had enough evidence against Surinder Koli to convict and sentence him for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, it relied on three major points to nail businessman Moninder Singh Pandher for the crime. The first was how did the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) let off Pandher on the basis of an alibi by just showing the immigration stamp on his passport as proof that he was not in the country when Rimpa was murdered.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday asked for response from Delhi Police to a bail plea of a suspected terrorist, allegedly involved in the Sep 13 serial blasts, who wants to appear for an MBA exam next month. Saquib Nisar, a suspected member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) who has been in custody since Sep 20 last year, pleaded that he should be granted bail to appear in his MBA third semester examination, which begin Feb 7.

January 29th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The crime branch of Orissa police Friday filed a 270-page charge sheet against seven people for the murder of a Hindu leader that triggered communal violence in the state during August-September last year, an official said. The charge sheet was filed against the seven people in the court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate at Baliguda in Kandhamal district, inspector general of police Arun Kumar Ray told IANS.

January 29th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A court here Friday reserved its judgement on the sensational Nithari serial murders case for Feb 12 after hearing concluding arguments. The local Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court of Additional District Judge Rama Jain Friday reserved the judgment after the prosecution and defence counsel made their final arguments.

January 29th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The crime branch of Orissa police Friday filed a charge sheet against seven people for the murder of a Hindu leader that triggered communal violence in the state during August-September last year, an official said. The charge sheet was filed in the court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate at Baliguda in Kandhamal district, a senior crime branch official told IANS on telephone.

January 5th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its 16th charge sheet in the Nithari serial killings filed in a court here Tuesday has let off Maninder Singh Pandher. The CBI submitted the 16th charge sheet in the court of Judicial Magistrate (CBI) Abhinitam Upadhyay.

January 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Often dubbed the crime capital of the country, Delhi last year saw a 13 percent decline in cases of rape, robbery, riot and dacoity though the number of murders went up sharply from 467 in 2007 to 518 in 2008. 'Last year, both the Indian Penal Code (IPC) crime and heinous crime were at their lowest levels since 1994,' Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S.