Fifteen murders in Delhi in first two weeks of 2009

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police on Wednesday arrested a dreaded criminal following a gun battle from West Delhi. Sandeep Chaitanya, the man wanted in five cases of murders and other crimes in Delhi and adjoining areas, was arrested from the densely populated Rohini area of the city.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A dreaded criminal wanted for half-a-dozen murders in Delhi and adjoining areas was arrested after a brief gunfight with policemen Wednesday. Sandeep Chaitanya, carrying a reward of Rs.50,000 on his head, was arrested from a house in the densely populated Rohini Sector 25 in northwest Delhi, a police officer said.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced non-stop train services between major cities as she unveiled her 2009-10 budget proposals in parliament Friday. The 12 services will be called 'Duronto' (spirited), she said.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - An interstate wrestling champion, who allegedly worked as a sharpshooter for the notorious Krishan Pehlwan gang, was arrested here Sunday for his alleged involvement in a number of murder cases in Punjab and Haryana, police said. Rakesh Kumar alias Raka, a 22-year-old former interstate champion in the 84 kg freestyle wrestling, was wanted in several murder cases.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The double murders shocked Indians and dominated not just headlines but also drawing room conversations for weeks. A year on, the killings of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her domestic help Hemraj in Delhi's satellite town of Noida remain unsolved despite many twists and turns.

May 4th, 2009 GURGAON - A fast track court here Monday sentenced six maxi cab drivers to life imprisonment for having committed two murders in 2006 in Haryana's Gurgaon district. Fast Track Court Magistrate A.K.

April 19th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Four men wanted in over a dozen cases of armed robberies and murders, belonging to what the police described as the 'knifer gang' were arrested Sunday, officials said. The gang which operated in Vaishali, Vasundhara, Kaushambi and Indirapuram areas of Ghaziabad, adjoining east Delhi, specialised in carrying out their crimes with the help of knives and were hence called the 'knifer gang', police said.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Wednesday invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) against five men held for their role in the sensational murders of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha Ghosh in the national capital. 'We have slapped MCOCA against key accused Ravi Kapoor and his accomplices Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik, Vijay Kumar and Ajay Sethi in connection with the murders,' Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) H.G.S.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An auto lifter, who stole over thousand vehicles in the past 20 years, has been arrested in connection with TV news producer Soumya Vishwanathan's murder case. "Ajay Sethi was arrested by a special team of Delhi Police from Faridabad-Badarpur border on Sunday night and the car used in the crime was recovered," said H G S Dhaliwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South).

March 30th, 2009 NOIDA - Two men, wanted in many cases of murders and attempted murders in the national capital, were arrested here, the police said Monday. The police intercepted an SUV during a routine checking drive and arrested Naeem and Nadeem.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Tuesday said they had arrested four men who were behind the murders of two young working women whose killings - one six months ago and one over the weekend - had rocked the capital. Police said the same people were behind the killings of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha Ghosh, who were both killed after midnight as they were returning from work.

January 31st, 2009 HONG KONG - Police in Hong Kong were Sunday investigating whether a serial killer is behind the murders of three prostitutes in three weeks. The latest victim, a 38-year-old Thai prostitute, was found murdered in the flat where she worked in the city's Kowloon district Saturday night.

January 31st, 2009 FUZHOU - Fifteen people were killed in a fireworks accident in Changle city in east China's Fujian province, government said. The accident occurred at 23.30 p.m.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - At least 30 flights were cancelled and six delayed as dense fog engulfed Delhi Monday, an official said. An Air India flight from Muscat was diverted to Jaipur early morning as visibility at the runway here dropped to less than 100 metres, an official at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) said.

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.