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TopicShraddha Walkar

Topic: Shraddha Walkar

Aftab Poonawalla ground Shraddha’s bones to powder, say Delhi Police

Details from 6,600-page chargesheet filed in January reveals that Poonawalla shunted Walkar’s body parts from fridge to kitchen cabinets when visited by another girl.

Aftab was angry at Shraddha Walkar for meeting man on dating platform, says chargesheet

According to the 6,000-page chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police on Tuesday, this led to a fight between the couple and Poonawalla killed her in a ‘fit of rage.’

‘Love jihad’ season in Maharashtra — why Shinde-Fadnavis govt is raking up interfaith marriages

With deaths of Shraddha Walkar & Tunisha Sharma being termed cases of 'love jihad', state govt says its mulling a law against it. Critics say move is 'politically motivated'.

India’s police need to stop policing women’s choices

Similar to their colonial predecessors, Indian police are obsessed with policing defiant daughters – not defending their rights.

‘Riding the wave of hysteria’: Post-Shraddha case, here are 12 ‘gruesome’ murders that made news

Last month, Aftab Poonawala was arrested for murdering and dismembering Shraddha Walkar. Such murders aren’t new — it’s media that’s suddenly shone spotlight on them, say experts.

Jaw recovered is Shraddha’s, say cops, to be analysed to calculate exact time, cause of death

The Delhi Police will now prepare a questionnaire to be sent to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, AIIMS, where a postmortem of the DNA-matched bones will be conducted.

Bones recovered from Mehrauli jungle are of Shraddha Walkar, forensic report finds

The report, received Wednesday evening, confirmed that the mortal remains recovered from several locations in Delhi, are that of Shraddha, sources said.

Looking at ‘love jihad’ laws in other states, says Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis

‘Love jihad’ is a term some use to describe interfaith relationships or marriages involving a Hindu girl – allegedly with the aim to converting her.

Men wielding swords attack police van carrying Aftab Poonawalla in Delhi

Two of the alleged attackers claimed to be members of the Hindu Sena. An FIR has been registered at the Prashant Vihar Police Station in connection with the violence.

Delhi mother-son arrested for murder of husband — ‘chopped body, kept in fridge, scattered parts’

The victim Anjan Das was murdered in June in East Delhi, allegedly for continuing an extra marital affair.

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A ship attack has shaken Asia’s faith in the US

Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.

Amid the new war in Middle East, ‘God’ surfaces in oil and commodities contracts

Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.