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  • Woman Chased, Stabbed To Death In Front Of Her Children In Delhi: Police

    A young woman was stabbed to death in front of her children on Thursday, April 21,  in south-west Delhi. The accused then managed to escape, the police said. The police official told news agency ANI, “We received a PCR call at around 2:00 pm at Sagar Pur police station that a woman was stabbed. We reached the spot immediately. The woman was taken to the hospital where she was declared dead.”

    The police further said that “CCTV footage of the incident showed that the accused was chasing her when she was heading home with her children.” “At around 2:10 pm the accused stabbed her and managed to escape,” they added. Upon investigation it was found that the woman and the accused were former neighbors before she moved to her current residence. However, the reason for the murder is not known yet. “A case of murder has been registered. The police are trying to identify and locate the accused,” the police official said.

  • Police search Navalny headquarters in late-night raid

    Police search Navalny headquarters in late-night raid

    Moscow (TIP): Russian police conducted a late-night search of the headquarters for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose arrest last month set off nationwide protests. The search by a dozen police ended at about 1 am. It was not immediately clear if the police took away items as potential evidence but photos posted by Navalny’s staff on social media showed them bagging material, including a coffee mug.

    There was no statement from police about the reason for the search; the Mediazona news website — that focuses on political repressions and human rights abuses — cited a Navalny staff member as saying that police said they had received a report that pornography was being published at the office.

    Navalny was arrested on January 17 when he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.

    He, later, was ordered to serve two-and-a-half years in prison on the grounds that his time in Germany violated a suspended sentence he was handed in a money-laundering and fraud conviction.

    The arrest sparked protests throughout the county on two weekends in January, in which a total of about 10,000 people reportedly were arrested. AP

  • Indian origin man is Chief Superintendent of Surrey police in Canada

    Indian origin man is Chief Superintendent of Surrey police in Canada

    SURREY, CANADA (TIP): Hailing from Rajeana village in Moga district, Sharanjit Singh Gill, popularly known as Shawn Gill, has been promoted as the Chief Superintendent and is now the Senior Operations Officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, reports Kulwinder Sandhu  from Moga for Tribune News Service.

    Hailing from Rajeana village in Moga district, Sharanjit Singh Gill, popularly known as Shawn Gill, has been promoted as the Chief Superintendent and is now the Senior Operations Officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. 

    British Columbia province is one of the biggest cities in Canada with a dominating Punjabi community.

    Sharanjit Singh Gill was superintendent-rank officer — Community Services Officer — before being promoted to Chief Superintendent, early this week.

    Congratulating him on his promotion, the Surrey police tweeted: “His 31 years of policing experience are a huge asset to our Frontline, Investigative and Community Services teams.”

    In September 2015, then-Inspector Sharnjit Gill, who was Operations Officer for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, was promoted to the rank of superintendent in the position of Community Services Officer in Surrey police.

    After beginning his career in 1989 on general duty in the Surrey police, he moved to Investigative Services where he worked in the Burglary and Serious Crime Units. Over the next 15 years, Gill gained extensive investigational police experience in various fields.

    In 2012, Gill was commissioned as an officer and joined as a duty officer for general duty until he was transferred back to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team in 2014. Gill was also a member of the Lower Mainland Hostage Negotiation Team and a past member of the E Division Interview Team.

    Gill is fluent in Punjabi language and is fond of Punjabi lifestyle. He has been living in Surrey for the past five decades. He migrated to Canada in 1969. Gill is also a sportsman and used to play hockey, baseball and was also associated with soccer associations as a volunteer and also worked as an assistant coach.

    In his career in the RCMP, Gill has won many accolades while in services.

    In 1997, he was awarded the officer-in-charge certificate of recognition for his role in the arrest and conviction of two serial sex offenders. In 2009, he was conferred Long Service Medal for completing 20 years of service with good conduct and in 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth-II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his role as the team commander in-charge of the pipeline bombings investigation in Columbia.

    British Columbia province is one of the biggest cities in Canada with a dominating Punjabi community.

    Sharanjit Singh Gill was superintendent-rank officer — Community Services Officer — before being promoted to Chief Superintendent, early this week.

    Congratulating him on his promotion, the Surrey police tweeted: “His 31 years of policing experience are a huge asset to our Frontline, Investigative and Community Services teams.”

    In September 2015, then-Inspector Sharnjit Gill, who was Operations Officer for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, was promoted to the rank of superintendent in the position of Community Services Officer in Surrey police.

    After beginning his career in 1989 on general duty in the Surrey police, he moved to Investigative Services where he worked in the Burglary and Serious Crime Units. Over the next 15 years, Gill gained extensive investigational police experience in various fields.

    In 2012, Gill was commissioned as an officer and joined as a duty officer for general duty until he was transferred back to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team in 2014. Gill was also a member of the Lower Mainland Hostage Negotiation Team and a past member of the E Division Interview Team.

    Gill is fluent in Punjabi language and is fond of Punjabi lifestyle. He has been living in Surrey for the past five decades. He migrated to Canada in 1969. Gill is also a sportsman and used to play hockey, baseball and was also associated with soccer associations as a volunteer and also worked as an assistant coach.

    In his career in the RCMP, Gill has won many accolades while in services.

    In 1997, he was awarded the officer-in-charge certificate of recognition for his role in the arrest and conviction of two serial sex offenders. In 2009, he was conferred Long Service Medal for completing 20 years of service with good conduct and in 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth-II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his role as the team commander in-charge of the pipeline bombings investigation in Columbia.

    (Source: Tribune India)

  • Indian American Congressman Krishnamoorthi Cosponsors Justice in Policing Act of 2020

    Indian American Congressman Krishnamoorthi Cosponsors Justice in Policing Act of 2020

    SCHAUMBURG, IL (TIP):  This week, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) joined more than 150 Members of Congress as a cosponsor of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. The bill is led by Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass, Senator Cory A. Booker, Senator Kamala D. Harris, and House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler. Sponsors described the bill as the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, change the culture of law enforcement and build trust between law enforcement and our communities.

    “As our nation continues to battle its legacy of systemic racism, this legislation will help to ensure that police officers are equipped with the resources they need to appropriately and effectively respond to the challenges they face on the job while sending a clear message that there is no place for brutality or misconduct in law enforcement,” said Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi. “We need to make equal justice under the law not simply a principle, but also a reality for all Americans, regardless of their background, and this legislation is a crucial step forward in that effort.”

    The Justice in Policing Act of 2020:

    • Prohibits federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, religious and discriminatory profiling, and mandates training on racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling for all law enforcement.
    • Bans chokeholds, carotid holds and no-knock warrants at the federal level and limits the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local law enforcement.
    • Mandates the use of dashboard cameras and body cameras for federal offices and requires state and local law enforcement to use existing federal funds to ensure the use of police body cameras.
    • Establishes a National Police Misconduct Registry to prevent problematic officers who are fired or leave on agency from moving to another jurisdiction without any accountability.
    • Amends federal criminal statute from “willfulness” to a “recklessness” standard to successfully identify and prosecute police misconduct.
    • Reforms qualified immunity so that individuals are not barred from recovering damages when police violate their constitutional rights.
    • Establishes public safety innovation grants for community-based organizations to create local commissions and task forces to help communities to re-imagine and develop concrete, just and equitable public safety approaches.
    • Creates law enforcement development and training programs to develop best practices and requires the creation of law enforcement accreditation standard recommendations based on President Obama’s Taskforce on 21st Century policing.
    • Requires state and local law enforcement agencies to report use of force data, disaggregated by race, sex, disability, religion, age.
    • Improves the use of pattern and practice investigations at the federal level by granting the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division subpoena power and creates a grant program for state attorneys general to develop authority to conduct independent investigations into problematic police departments.
    • Establishes a Department of Justice task force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution and enforcement efforts of federal, state and local governments in cases related to law enforcement misconduct.

  • For America to judge the murderers

    For America to judge the murderers

    Another sad day in America’s history. The murder of a black person by a white police officer in Minneapolis, May 26, is another addition to a chain of such crimes by the police who are supposed to protect lives, not snuff them out.

    The video (https://youtu.be/ZWzkgKPZWcw) shot by a bystander and in wide circulation on social media platforms clearly tells us who the murderer is. It is inhuman and barbaric of the police officer to kill the man. It is not an isolated case. The brutal murder of a black person by a white police officer reminds one of the murder on July 17, 2014, of a black Eric Garner in New York, who, too, was choked to death almost in the way  as the black George Floyd (46) in this video. The repeated pleadings  of Floyd to police officer to get off his neck and his cries that he was not able to breathe which continued until he could speak no more, reminds one of the similar cries of Garner who kept repeating he could not breathe until he fell silent.

    Over the years we have seen a propensity among white police officers to murder black persons. And, it happens all across America. Americans need to analyze why it happens. It is time to ensure we have in the police, people who harbor no racial or ethnic prejudices. People with prejudices are sure to harm the multicultural mosaic of America.  Let politicians of all hues understand if they do not arrest the trend now, future generations will pay a heavy price for their indifference. Let there be no politics that divides the great nation that America is, and of which we all are so proud.

    Founding fathers of America must be turning in their graves each time a racial killing born out of prejudice of a white guy against a black person takes place. This is not the America we want our children to inherit.

    Stop it here. Stop it now.

    The least that needs to be done is to charge the white officer with his left hand in his pocket relishing the slow death he was forcing on a pinned down Floyd, with manslaughter. No witnesses are required. The video alone is sufficient credible witness. Other colleagues of the murderer police officer are guilty of complicity. They need to be charged as conspirers in the murder of Floyd.

    And remember, justice dispensers, justice delayed is justice denied. And, again, no presidential pardon for a murderer -police officer, please.

  • No More 1947; no more 1984; no more 2002; no more 2020

    13000 SOS calls made over 4 days of communal violence raging in some parts of Delhi, and no response from 85000 strong Delhi Police force to come to the aid of the victims. The result: 42 lives snuffed out. Over 350 injured. Property worth thousands of crores destroyed. And relationships ruptured, may be, beyond repair.

    Reminds one of 1984 when thousands of Sikhs made frantic calls without any response from police. The result, over 10,000 lost their lives. Hundreds of women were raped. Thousands were injured.

    Had the police done their duty in 1984, the barbaric and tragic incident could have been avoided, and precious lives saved.

    The pattern was repeated in 2002 when in Gujarat, communal violence erupted taking a heavy toll of life and property. Police even there preferred to look the other way while the arsonists and perpetrators of violence continued to loot and kill without a finger being raised by the police.

    It has happened again, in Delhi where over three to four days, goons went around, beating and killing, damaging property right under the nose of the police. Reports say, at places, police actively connived with the goons.

    So, the 1984 and 2002 pattern were repeated in 2020. Is it a coincidence that the police in Delhi in 1984 and in 2020 conducted itself in a similar fashion as police did in Gujarat in 2002? Are the police all across the country trained that way? Or, is it the dharma of the police to obey, not the law, but those who control political power?

    Is it a coincidence that 2002 Gujarat communal violence took place under the duo of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah when they  were Chief Minister and Home Minister respectively of the State, and the 2020 Delhi communal violence took  place under the same team with one being the Prime Minister and the other being the Home Minister?  It is an interesting coincidence.

    However, getting back to the conduct of police in Delhi, it is quite strange that the High Court had to pull up police to move forward in cases of hate speech which surely provoked people into violence. Those who make provocative statements and instigate people to communal violence are guilty of creating conditions of civil war and destabilizing the nation, and as such, should be treated as traitors.

    India has suffered enough. Indians have suffered enough from 1947 through 1984 and 2002. Already, another wound has been inflicted in the body of the nation in the form of recent Delhi Communal clashes. Every time there is a communal clash it is a stab in the heart of Mother India. Let those who love Mother India desist from any further crimes against their mother.

    Let us pledge today: “No more 1947; no more 1984; no more 2002 and no more 2020.”

     

     

  • All Four Hyderabad Rape accused killed in police encounter

    All Four Hyderabad Rape accused killed in police encounter

    HYDERABAD (TIP): The four men accused of raping and murdering a veterinarian in Hyderabad were killed in an encounter in the early hours of Friday, December 6,  Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar told  PTI.

    The encounter took place around 3.30 am, when the accused were trying to flee while being taken to the murder site to reconstruct the sequence of events, reported Hindustan Times. The accused allegedly snatched a weapon and fired at the police. They tried to run towards a deserted pathway, an unidentified official told The Indian Express.

    “They fired upon the police team and we retaliated in self-defense,” unidentified officials told PTI. “Two of our men are also injured in the incident.”

    The accused – Mohammed, Jollu Shiva, Jollu Naveen and Chintakunta Chennakeshavulu – were arrested on November 29 for allegedly raping and killing the woman by smothering her. They burned her body. The four were under judicial custody and lodged in high security cells in Cherlapally Central Prison.

    The father of the veterinarian expressed his gratitude. “It has been 10 days to the day my daughter died,” he told ANI. “I express my gratitude towards the police and government for this. My daughter’s soul must be at peace now.”

    (Source: PTI)