News Updates LIVE: SIT searches Shahjahanpur woman’s hostel room for 6 hours in Chinmayanand case

Members of a special investigation team here on Tuesday searched the hostel room of the student who has accused BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand of raping and "physically exploiting" her for a year.

The SIT members, accompanied by forensic experts, spent nearly six hours at the hostel room to collect evidence in connection with her allegations against the former Union minister, college sources said.

The student and her family members accompanied the SIT members during the search, they said.

The team, which reached the hostel around noon, remained in the room till 5.45 pm, examining the postgraduate student's belongings.

After the search, the room was locked and sealed.

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A Pakistani national has been detained from a village near the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan's Barmer district, officials said on Tuesday.

Bhag Chand, resident of Boranada in Pakistan's Sangad district, sneaked into India by crossing the international border on Monday and was detained in Akli village, BSF DIG Gurupal Singh said.

He had Pakistani Rupees 30 in his possession and no suspicious object was found on him, Singh said.

The accused was handed over to the police on Tuesday. He will be interrogated by intelligence agencies. So far no case has been registered against Chand.

The Congress party on Tuesday accused the BJP, that is ruling in the Centre as well as in several states including Uttar Pradesh, of giving protection to rape accused politicians.

Party spokesperson Ragini Nayak said that from Nihal Chand to Chinmayanand there was a long list of such accused. She also recalled how the 16-year-old Unnao rape victim had to fight for justice and how her family was killed one after another during her prolonged fight against the accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar.

The BJP-ruled Gujarat has slashed the traffic fines that were hiked manifold after new central law came into force on Sep 1.

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said that as per new traffic rules there is a fine of ₹1,000 for not wearing a helmet, but in Gujarat it has been reduced to ₹500. New fine for not wearing seat belt is ₹1,000 as per the new rule, but in Gujarat it's ₹500.

Driving a vehicle dangerously attracts a fine of ₹5,000 as per new rules, however, in Gujarat it will be ₹1,500 for three-wheelers, ₹3,000 for Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs) and ₹5000 for others.

A 51-year-old official posted with the Defence Security Corps, which provides security cover to Defence installations, allegedly shot himself dead inside the DRDO complex in Delhi on Tuesday, police said.

The security official was identified as Hardeep Singh, a native of Punjab, they said.

"Police received information about the incident at 9.58 am. A team rushed to the spot and shifted the victim to Trauma Centre where he was declared brought dead," a senior police officer said.

Singh shot himself on the neck with his service rifle. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.

The district administration has ordered that Uday Pratap Singh, father of Independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiya, be put under house arrest in Kunda because he was insistent on organising the recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa and organising a community kitchen on Muharram.

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the plea of a "minor" Muslim girl, who has been ordered to stay in a shelter home for women in Uttar Pradesh, after her marriage was found to be void by the Allahabad High Court.

The apex court was hearing an appeal filed by the girl, who is 16-years-old as per a medical report, against the high court's July order which dismissed her petition against a trial court directive sending her to a shelter home at Ayodhya.

Pakistan on Tuesday raked up the Jammu and Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), talking about the restrictions imposed and detention of political leaders among other things.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while levelling allegations and making unsubstantiated claims about the situation prevailing in Jammu and Kashmir, said it had been converted into the "largest prison" with people being denied access to basic amenities.

A statue of Dr BR Ambedkar was found vandalised in Ghunna village. Members of Dalit community stage a protest against the incident. Police forces have been deployed in the area.

At least two people were killed and six went missing when their utility vehicle fell into the Yamuna river, around 50 km from here, officials said on Tuesday.  One person, who was also in the vehicle, was rescued on Monday evening, they said

Five naxals were arrested in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district by a joint team of security forces from the forests of Bandaguda village, police said on Tuesday.

They were apprehended on Monday by a composite squad of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), its elite unit CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) and local police during a search operation in Bandaguda, Chipurbhatti, Pusbaka and Pegdapalli villages, a police official said.

One person was electrocuted and other injured on Tuesday morning when a 'tazia' in a Muharram procession came in contact with live wires in Akbarpur village here, police said.

The incident took place in Bahjoi area when Safleen (40) and others were taking out 'tazia', police said.

Jack Ma, who founded Alibaba Group, the world's biggest e-commerce company, is stepping down as chairman at a time when the rapidly changing industry faces uncertainty amid a US-Chinese trade war.

Ma stepped down Tuesday as part of a succession announced a year earlier. He will stay on as a member of the Alibaba Partnership, a group of 36 people with the right to nominate a majority of the company's board of directors.

ISRO says, Vikram Lander has been located by the orbiter of Chandrayaan 2, but no communication with it yet. All possible efforts are being made to establish communication with lander.

“Economy is falling deeper into the gorge of recession. There's a sword hanging on the jobs of lakhs of people. Slump in the auto sector and truck sector are the signs of negative growth in production-transportation and shattering trust in the market. When will the govt open its eyes?,” says Priyanka Gandhi

4 workers died while cleaning a sewer in Madhuban Kanti village of Muzaffarpur, 1 person is critical. More details awaited.

The BSE, NSE, currency and derivatives markets will remain closed on Tuesday on account of 'Muharram'.

In Delhi, a man allegedly murdered his 20-day-old daughter by drowning her in a bathtub in Bindapur area, yesterday. Investigation is underway.

Eight Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, who were involved in threatening and intimidation of locals, were arrested in south Kashmir's Sopore on Monday.

Eight arrested are accused of preparing the threat posters and circulating them in the locality. The terrorists have been identified as Aijaz Mir, Omar Mir, Tawseef Najar, Imitiyaz Najar, Omar Akbar, Faizan Latief, Danish Habib, and Showkat Ahmad Mir

A boy was killed and three other children and a woman critically injured in a roof collapse in West Bengal's Malda district, police said.

The incident occurred at Noorpur Dakshin Mondal Para village on Monday night.

US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated an Indian American as a federal judge in Florida.

Anuraag Singhal is among the 17 judiciary nomination sent by the White House to the Senate. If confirmed by the Senate, the Indian-American would replace James I. Cohn as the United States district judge for the southern district of Florida.

North Korea on Tuesday fired projectiles toward the sea, South Korea's military said, hours after Pyongyang said it is willing to hold working-level talks with the United States in late September.