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Time of India
4 days ago
- Time of India
Woman arrested for railway job scam
Thiruvananthapuram : Pettah police arrested a Kollam, Mughathala-based woman, Reshma, 24, for defrauding several people by offering jobs in the Indian Railways. According to the police, she befriended the victims after meeting them by chance at Thampanoor railway station. She used to wear an identity card of the Indian Railways to convince victims that she was a senior clerk in the recruitment division. Reshma then maintained a relationship with the victims tactically. During communications over the phone, she promised the victims jobs and later took lakhs of rupees from them. One of the complainants, a Manacaud-based woman and her brother lost Rs 4.5 lakh in the scam. Reshma offered the woman a job as junior clerk and her brother a job in the post of commercial-cum-ticket clerk. She collected the amount claiming that she had to bribe some of her senior officers. The victims were asked to sign several documents and an offer letter was also sent. They realised it was a scam only when they verified it with the office concerned. "Reshma stays with her husband, mother and three children in Kollam. Her connections in Thiruvananthapuram and what prompted her to cheat the victims will be known only through a detailed probe," said police. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Libas Purple Days Sale Libas Undo Police said that she was arrested in a similar cheating case registered at Thampanoor police station in 2022. The probe team also found that the documents she gave to the victims looked similar to the ones in possession of Murukeshan Pillai, who was earlier arrested in a job scam. Pillai also cheated several people by offering jobs in the railways. The links between them were being examined, police said. Meanwhile, a court granted her bail when Pettah police produced her in connection with the case registered on the complaint of the Manacaud-based woman.
Time of India
21-07-2025
- Time of India
Coconut seller assaults wife with chopper over money dispute
Nagpur: A violent domestic dispute turned near-fatal when Shamsher Sheikh, a 33-year-old coconut seller from Hasanbagh, attacked his wife Reshma with an iron coconut chopping instrument, intending to kill her at their residence on Sunday. She was rushed to a nearby hospital by her kin immediately after the assault, where she is still fighting for her life. The incident, reported at Nandanvan police station, stemmed from ongoing arguments over a Rs6 lakh loan Sheikh gave to Reshma's sister six months ago for house construction. Frequent demands for repayment had led to regular abuse and assaults, said sources. Police said Sheikh did not have any past criminal records. On Sunday, the argument escalated to a boiling point when an enraged Sheikh struck Reshma on the head with the chopper. Her relatives' swift intervention saved her life, rushing her to Vanjari Hospital in Bhande Plot, where she remains in critical condition. Following the assault, Sheikh was arrested by Nandanvan police based on a complaint by Reshma's brother-in-law.
Time of India
03-07-2025
- Time of India
4 kids among 5 killed as truck on wrong side rams bike in UP
Representative image MEERUT: Five members of a family, including four children aged between 5 and 8, died after a truck moving on the wrong side of NH-334 to dodge toll payment rammed their motorcycle in Hapur's Hafizpur area, police said on Thursday. Danish Khan, 36, a resident of Mohalla Rafiqnagar in Hapur, was returning after a swim with his daughters, Mahira, 8, and Samaira, 5, and his brother's children, Samar, 8, and Mahim, 8, when the truck struck them around 10pm on Wednesday. All five died in hospital. Danish's wife, Reshma, and two other children from the extended family, riding on another motorcycle, narrowly escaped. Police said the driver had entered the wrong lane from a road cut to avoid paying highway toll. ASP Vineet Bhatnagar said, "Police seized the truck and sent the bodies for postmortem examination. An FIR has been registered under BNS sections 281 (rash driving or driving on a public way) and 106(1) (causing death due to negligence). Efforts are on to arrest the driver who fled." A video showing Danish dancing with Reshma at the pool just hours before the crash was widely circulated online. Reshma's father, Sirajuddin, said she had found peace with Danish after a troubled first marriage.
Time of India
03-07-2025
- Time of India
4 kids among 5 killed as truck on wrong side rams bike
Meerut: Five members of a family, including four children aged between 5 and 8, died after a truck moving on the wrong side of NH-334 to dodge toll payment rammed their motorcycle in Hapur's Hafizpur area, police said on Thursday. Danish Khan, 36, a resident of Mohalla Rafiqnagar in Hapur, was returning after a swim with his daughters, Mahira, 8, and Samaira, 5, and his brother's children, Samar, 8, and Mahim, 8, when the truck struck them around 10pm on Wednesday. All five died in hospital. Danish's wife, Reshma, and two other children from the extended family, riding on another motorcycle, narrowly escaped. Police said the driver had entered the wrong lane from a road cut to avoid paying highway toll. ASP Vineet Bhatnagar said, "Police seized the truck and sent the bodies for post-mortem. An FIR has been registered under BNS sections 281 (rash driving or driving on a public way) and 106(1) (causing death due to negligence). Efforts are on to arrest the driver who fled." A video showing Danish dancing with Reshma at the pool just hours before the crash was widely circulated online. Reshma's father, Sirajuddin, said she had found peace with Danish after a troubled first marriage.
Indian Express
26-06-2025
- General
- Indian Express
Between ‘pawtriots' and protesters, finding middle ground in India's dog war
Brandy Tehsin didn't have a tail. He wagged his whole butt. In an age when having pet dogs was not in vogue, Brandy was the diva of Panchwati, our colony in Udaipur, where he would do his nightly rounds. The devilish Doberman that considered not just our compound but the whole of Panchwati his kingdom didn't let out one bark when we had a sea of people come to pay homage on my Dadaji's passing. I'm not sure I fit the definition of a 'dog person'. By that definition, I am more of a snake or crocodile person. But I know I am a person who will want to cuddle a dog and talk to it in baby voices. I'm also that person who thinks that unvaccinated, unsupervised, unsocialised street dogs should not be roaming in packs on our streets or edges of forests, terrorising both children at play and skittish blackbucks. And that, my dear reader, is how you lose both your dog-loving and dog-loathing friends. We are a planet divided. Not over the big philosophical questions — like, is there life after death, or why do airlines serve paneer for vegetarians in every single meal — but over dogs who delight and divide us. At one end of the spectrum are the pawtriots, the uber Dog Lovers. They speak fluent Barkish, wear 'Dog Mom' T-shirts, and believe their furry friend's opinion on a potential partner matters more than their own. At the other end are the Dog Dissenters, people who look at a wagging tail the way some look at their electricity bills in summer. Between these two warring factions, there are people in the no-man's land, trying to find a balance for a creature that gives us undiluted affection, zero passive-aggressive comments and is also the cause of thousands of deaths every year in India alone. Last year, when I was in Udaipur, four-year-old Reshma, who had come with her parents from Madhya Pradesh to pay homage to the tomb of Mastaan Baba, was mauled by a stray dog. Her parents rushed her to hospital, but Reshma was declared dead on arrival. India records 20,000 human deaths due to rabies annually — 35 per cent of the global total (Global Alliance for Rabies Control). The primary culprit? Free-ranging dogs. Add to that the countless cases of children, cyclists, elderly people and delivery workers being attacked or chased. Some attacks turn fatal. One of BBC's articles in 2016 was titled 'Do India's stray dogs kill more people than terror attacks?' The fact that it is mainly the children (and adults) of lower income groups who are affected leads to apathy in the middle and higher income groups towards this problem. Then there's the impact on wildlife. In protected forests and urban fringes, packs of feral dogs chase deer, kill ground-nesting birds, raid nests and occasionally even manage to bring down a leopard. One of the greatest threats to the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard is stray dogs. Dogs are now among the top invasive species globally, posing a threat to over 200 endangered species worldwide — it's ecological mayhem. Modern India's streets are today a grand buffet of garbage. And dogs, scavengers by nature, have happily adapted. These strays are not strays in the traditional sense — they're free-ranging community animals, fed and loved by some, feared and resented by others. Add a lack of sterilisation, haphazard urban planning, an exploding garbage problem and you have 60 million plus street dogs as of 2023. Twice the human population of Australia. Humans created the conditions for this to happen. Then we did what we do best — polarised the issue. On one side are activists who fiercely oppose any removal or culling, citing cruelty. On the other side are residents forming WhatsApp groups titled #DogMenace, who paint all dog lovers as elite margarita-sipping Mogambos. In the middle are people like Asad Rahmani, former director of the Bombay Natural History Society, who pragmatically puts it: 'Every dog should be a pet dog': A dog with a home, a name, vaccinations, a bowl and a human to love it. Dogs do not belong on the streets or forests. The only dogs that belong in the forest are Dholes, the Indian wild dog. But this middle ground in dog politics is as rare as a clean public toilet on an Indian highway. What does a solution look like? Definitely not Facebook fights in all-caps, but a reasonable, empathetic and evidence-based approach. Pet dogs must be registered and sterilised. It's great if people like me want an addition to the family. But my affection shouldn't add to a feral population. Implementing a robust circular economy to decrease urban garbage would not only keep cities cleaner but also drastically reduce the scavenger population. I know, that's not happening anytime soon. But a strong sterilisation drive can. Sterilisation alone doesn't solve aggression or territorial behaviour. Instead of release-and-forget, there should be more shelters and adoption centres. Our society, like the West, is increasingly grappling with loneliness and urban alienation, and needs an emotional leash. There has been an upsurge in pets after Covid. Dogs are natural emotional therapists. But to need them is not to ignore the danger posed by unsupervised dogs. We need better public policy, deeper compassion and honest conversations. Above all, we need fewer packs. And more pairs: A dog and its human. Watching the sunset. Maybe sharing a sandwich. Not chasing a sambar. When Yudhishthira reached the gates of heaven, he took the dog, not the doctrine. I hope to find Brandy there too — still wagging that tailless butt, still ruling Panchwati, only now with clouds instead of compound walls. Well, most likely I am going to hell. I hope hell has a back gate and Brandy still remembers how to break through. Tehsin is a Colombo-based writer and environmentalist
