Software engineer held for snatching mobile phone

September 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Jails in Uttar Pradesh will soon have high frequency mobile phone jammers imported from Israel as those installed 10 years ago now prove ineffective in checking cell phone use by inmates. "The existing jammers were installed by two private mobile service providers about 10 years ago.

September 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - A government employee succumbed to injuries after he was beaten by a former militant in a dispute over a mobile phone in Tripura, officials said Wednesday. "A former militant, Jugal Debbarma, 26, severely beat 27-year-old Sukhubasi Debbarma, an employee of the state power department in Takarjala in west Tripura Sunday," a police spokesman said.

September 2nd, 2009 HAMILTON - Use of handheld mobile phone while driving will be banned here in the next two months due to a rise in the number of accidents, with a New Zealand official stressing that "using a mobile phone while driving is dangerous". The ban comes into effect from Nov 1.

August 19th, 2009 NOIDA - A software engineer working with an IT major here committed suicide early Wednesday by jumping from the fifth floor of his office building, police said. Vikas Sharma, 26, originally a resident of Bihar, joined IT major HCL January last year as a network analyst.

August 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A teenager who wanted to find an Indian student and steal his mobile phone but later killed a university researcher in this Australian city has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. The teenager lifted the university researcher and dropped him on his head during a fatal gang bashing, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

August 8th, 2009 Police say suspect was caught by his own seat beltEASTPOINTE, Mich. —Authorities said a purse snatching suspect being chased by police near Detroit got his right leg tangled in his car's seat belt when he tried to bail out and ended up being dragged several hundred feet.

August 5th, 2009 Criminal charges for NY train engineer, passengerMINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York prosecutor says criminal charges have been filed against a Long Island Rail Road engineer and the passenger he allowed to drive a train.

August 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three police constables were arrested here Wednesday for helping a criminal to escape from police custody, officials said. Constables Jitendra Yadav, Brijesh Sharma and Devanand were missing for about a month from the Azamgarh district along with a criminal, Pintu Yadav, who was serving a sentence in the Azamgarh district jail.

August 3rd, 2009 PUNE - A software engineer surrendered to Pune police Monday and confessed to killing his 24-year-old female colleague, an official said. Anmol Swaransingh Jabbal, 28, working with a US-based software company Symantec, and Shraddha Chhajed had left home for office as usual last Friday morning, Chaturshringi police station senior police inspector M.

July 28th, 2009 At least 18 female laborers from dalit community were injured when a landlord drove car over them in Bihar for their refusal to work in his paddy field, police said today. The incident occurred at Bairauni village under Korma police station in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district last evening.

July 24th, 2009 PATNA - A middle-aged Dalit woman, her son and his friend were allegedly abused and beaten by upper caste men in a Bihar village for listening to popular Hindi songs on a mobile phone, police said Friday. The incident took place in Kurji village near here.

June 21st, 2009 GHAZIABAD - In two separate incidents here, the houses of two software engineers were robbed of cash, jewellery and other valuables worth Rs.17 lakh, police said Sunday. In the first incident, Atul Tyagi, a software engineer who runs his own business and is a resident of Niti Khand in Indirapuram area of Ghaziabad returned home from an outstation visit to find that his front gate lock had been broken and robbers had decamped with jewellery, cash and other valuables worth Rs.15 lakh, police said.

June 17th, 2009 Man accused of stealing 88 panties from neighborSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico police said they have arrested a man accused of snatching 88 pieces of underwear from a neighbor's clothesline. The man was charged with theft and illegal appropriation.

June 15th, 2009 Alleged purse snatcher leaves wallet near sceneGARDINER, Maine — Police said they were led to a 22-year-old suspect in a weekend purse-snatching after he inadvertently dropped his wallet with his identification. Police told WMTW-TV that they were called Saturday morning with a report that a man had pushed down a 58-year-old woman as she walked and stolen her purse.

April 24th, 2009 NOIDA - Three people were killed and five injured in four separate accidents in Noida since Thursday night, police said Friday. In the first accident, an executive in a private firm was killed while his friend was critically injured in an accident near the Film City Thursday night.