UP: Woman arrested for killing man during rape attempt
Banda (PTI): An 18-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing a middle-aged man with a sharp-edged weapon after he attempted to sexually assault her in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday.
The incident took place in Murwal village on Thursday afternoon.
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Station House Officer (SHO) Rajendra Singh Rajawat said the body of Sukhraj Prajapati (50) was found in a house with fatal head injuries inflicted by a sharp-edged weapon around 3.30 pm.
Based on a complaint lodged by the victim's family members, police registered a murder case and arrested the woman later in the night along with the weapon of offence, identified as a 'farsa', the SHO said.
During interrogation, the accused told police that the man had entered her house and tried to sexually assault her. In an attempt to defend herself, she struck him with the 'farsa' kept in the house, resulting in his death, he said.
The accused will be produced before a court later on Friday, police added.
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Red Fort blast: NIA conducts searches in south Kashmir
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Srinagar (PTI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday carried out searches in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian and Pulwama districts as part of its probe into the November 10 blast near the Red Fort in Delhi, officials said.
They said the NIA sleuths, assisted by police and CRPF, brought along one of the accused, Yasir Ahmad Dar, to the searches. Ahmad was arrested in connection with the "white collar" terror module.
The officials said the searches were going on in the Padpawan area of Shopian and the Pampore locality of Pulwama, both in south Kashmir.
The searches were carried out at the instance of Dar, the ninth accused in the case, who had told the investigators about some hideouts in these areas, the officials said, adding that further details were awaited.
