On March 09, 2012 Times of India reported that five members of a family, including three women, were arrested on Thursday for preparing fake documents to grab a building in Chennai’s Kothwalchavadi area that belongs to a Tiruttani temple and selling it to an Andhra Pradesh-based businessman. The arrested were later remanded in judicial custody. The incident came to light when authorities of the Subramania Swamy temple went to collect rent from tenants in the 2,520 sq ft building on Arumugam Street and were threatened by twins Nethaji and Nehruji, who claimed they own edit along with their three sisters as per the settlement deed and that they had sold it to a man named Tarakam for 32 lakh in October 2011.

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On March 09, 2012 Times of India reported that the Park Street car rape victim has identified all the three accused – Naser Khan, Ruman Khan and Sumit Bajaj – at the Presidency correctional home on-Wednesday. Sources said apart from the victim, another lady, who was at the nightclub on that night and had noticed the accused interacting with the victim, was also present.

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On March 09, 2012 Mid Day reported that after her driver made a wrong turn, it took some time for school teacher Meera Malhotra (57) to realise that the man himself had taken a turn for the worse. Fortunately the presence of mind of her daughter Tarang and the alacrity of city cops led to the Pune resident being rescued within 10 hours of abduction. Speaking to MiD DAY from her Koregaon Park residence, Meera, wife of Ashok Malhotra (61), a retired railways senior divisional commercial manager, said that she had left her house early Tuesday morning to reach Bishop Co-ed School, Kalyani Nagar, Pune at 7 am.

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On March 07, 2012 Times of India reported that a teenager was arrested and five stolen cars and 720 gms of gold were recovered from him by Chatrinaka police on Tuesday. He had allegedly committed 27 offences in the past few months in the city. The stolen goods recovered from him were worth about Rs 40 lakh, police said. The teen, Mohammed Akheel, 19, of Shah Ali Banda was arrested near Durdana cafe in Kandikal Gate while he was driving a Scorpio (AP 10 R- 1097) without any valid documents.

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On March 07, 2012 Times of India reported that he was a cheat and rowdy-sheeter from Manipal in Udupi district. But Suresh Pujari alias Golden Suresh, 32, broke the code of the underworld and paid dearly for it. Suresh showed cocaine samples to win clients’ trust and then palmed off baking soda while selling the narcotic in large quantities. That landed him in police custody on Monday.

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On March 07, 2012 Mumbai Mirror reported that claiming to have foiled a conspiracy to bribe public servants for diluting charges in the multi-crore Adarsh Housing Society scam, the CBI on Tuesday arrested its own lawyer and a former Congress MLC, who is already an accused in the scam. Four persons – former MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, his son Kailash, CBI counsel Mandar Goswami and tax consultant J K Jagiasi – were arrested and produced before a special CBI court which remanded them in the agency's custody till March 16.

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On March 07, 2012 Pune Mirror reported that the police have found that a 19-year-old youth from Mohammedwadi, who had been reported missing since December 12, 2011, was actually murdered on the same day by two suspects who had allegedly raped his sister in 2010. The suspects killed him because he was not ready to withdraw the rape charges against the duo. Aakash Ashok Alhat (19) of Mohammedwadi went missing on the afternoon of December 12, 2011 and was never seen again. His uncle Rajendra Kondiba Alhat (35) has lodged a missing person’s complaint with the Kondhwa police station on the same day as the family was suspicious about his disappearance and requested the police top brass to hand over the investigations of the missing person’s case to the city crime branch.

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On March 07, 2012 DNA reported that additional sessions judge SL Anekar has sentenced three men to rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a mentally ill minor girl. The convicts include Suresh Tatya Parshuram Powar (42), Vishwanath Ramesh Shetty (21) and Bapu Jagannath Sathe (24). Shetty and Powar have been sentenced to seven years RI, while Sathe has been awarded five years RI.

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On March 05, 2012 Times of India reported that even as questions are being raised about the timing of Babu Singh Kushwaha’s arrest on the last day of the seventh phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, highly placed sources said two more prominent arrests are likely in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam before the votes are counted on March 6.

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On March 05, 2012 Times of India reported that an Afghan national allegedly stabbed his 21-year-old American fiancee to death at a guesthouse in Jangpura in south Delhi and was caught hours later from the IGI Airport on Sunday morning, just as he was about to catch a flight to Afghanistan. The victim, Paimana Khanjar, 21, a US citizen of Afghan origin on her first visit to India, was found dead by a friend on Saturday night, with a knife in her abdomen. Police called it a crime of passion committed by her fiancé – Omid Milad Hussain Khill, an Afghan national living in Russia – after she reportedly wanted to break off the engagement.

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