Cop suicide

Nagpur, June 21 (PTI): A policeman committed suicide in the Resimbagh area today, police said.

Head constable Sanjay Gupta shot himself with his service carbine and died instantly, the joint commissioner of police said. A suicide note has been found where Gupta cited domestic problems as the cause for his suicide.

Rajbir case

New Delhi (PTI): The CBI filed a chargesheet on Saturday in connection with the killing of Delhi police encounter specialist Rajbir Singh accusing his friend Vijay Bhardawaj, a property dealer, of the murder. Singh was shot dead on March 24 in Gurgaon and the accused had used the revolver of a deputy superintendent of police, who had lost it in an encounter last year.

Killer dad

Aalappuzha (PTI): A court has jailed a man for life in Kerala for hacking his four-month-old son to death and seriously injuring his wife, suspecting her fidelity. According to the prosecution, Shibu, 32, a bus conductor, attacked his wife Suhba with an axe while she was breast-feeding the child at home. Shibu surrendered afterwards.

Itching

Malappuram (PTI): Forty school children were hospitalised in Kerala on Saturday following complaints of severe itching and respiratory problems, police said. The children, studying in a government-aided school, felt the itching sensation after they brushed against some plants near the school, sources said.

Buffaloes

Palakkad (PTI): Eleven buffaloes were electrocuted in Kerala after touching a live wire, sources said. Workers tried to save them by removing the fuse on the electric post but the animals had died by then.

Fatal walk

Dubai (PTI): A Dubai court has acquitted an Egyptian woman who ran over and killed an Indian man. The court held the man responsible for his own death as he had crossed a road at an undesignated place. There was 90 mg/dl alcohol in his blood, the woman’s lawyers told the court.