The accused, Shailesh Kumar is a resident of Munirka village, and was arrested yesterday from outside a girls’ hostel located inside JNU campus, they added.
A few days back, he had tried to talk to the victim but she refused. Infuriated, he started stalking her.
The victim told the police that he followed her for a fortnight and even came outside her hostel, breaching the security of the college campus.
On finding the accused outside her hostel, she immediately alerted college security. The youth was detained and later handed over to the police.
“On Saturday, we received a PCR call from a girls’ hostel in JNU campus about a stalker. A police team reached the spot and arrested him. The arrested person is a college dropout and works at a shop in the locality,” a senior police officer said.
09:48 Soldier arrested with 2 grenades at Srinagar airport: A soldier was arrested this morning at Srinagar airport after two grenades were found in his baggage. The jawan serves near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, in the Uri sector.
The police say he was about to take a flight to Delhi when a baggage check revealed the grenades.
09:40 Crucial defence ministry meeting today to look at strategic partner policy: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley is looking to solve a problem that thwarted predecessor Manohar Parrikar throughout his 28 months in office.
On Monday, the defence ministry’s apex procurement body, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Jaitley, will try to arrive at an acceptable way of nominating “strategic partners’ (SPs) — private companies, nominated by the defence ministry as chosen production agencies for defence equipment.
Private defence industry and companies hoping to enter this risky field are watching carefully to see whether the SP policy will corner defence production for a handful of big players, or leave space for others to share the profits.
Read Ajai Shukla’s piece for Business Standard.
09:29 Arrest warrant issued against Rakhi Sawant for comment on Valmiki:
A local court in Ludhiana has issued an arrest warrant against Bollywood actress Rakhi Sawant for allegedly making objectionable remarks against sage Valmiki, who wrote the mythological Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’.
The warrant was issued on March 9 on the basis of a complaint filed against her for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Valmiki community with her comments on a programme on a private television channel last year, police said.
“By doing so she has hurt the religious sentiments of a large number of his followers,” the complaint said.
“A two-member team of the Ludhiana police has left for Mumbai with the arrest warrant,” a police official said.
Sawant had failed to appear before the court during the last hearing held on March 9 despite the court issuing her repeated summons.
The next hearing of the case is scheduled for April 10.
09:16 Army jawan carrying 2 grenades arrested by police at Srinagar airport, reports ANI
08:50 Fresh row at Infosys as Narayana Murthy slams COO’s pay hike:
The battle between Infosys founders and the companys management led by its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Vishal Sikka is far from over.
After a month’s lull, co-founder Narayana Murthy, who has taken on the management over what he says are poor corporate governance standards at Infosys, has fired a fresh salvo.
Murthy has said that the compensation hike to Chief Operating Officer U B Pravin Rao approved by the board in February was not “proper” and “will likely erode the trust and faith of the employees in the management and the board”.
“The impact of such a decision (compensation hike) will likely erode the trust and faith of the employees in the management and the board,” he said in an email to PTI.
Murthy also said that given the current poor governance standards at Infosys, the targets for variable pay may not be adhered to if the board wants to favor a top management person.
“Finally, given the current poor governance standards at Infosys, let us also remember that these targets for variable pay may not be adhered to if the board wants to favor a top management person,” he said.
Murthy has been very vocal about the difference in compensation paid to the top management and the employees and has often lamented that corporate governance standards at the company he founded have slipped.
08:19 US will act alone on North Korea if China fails to help: Trump:
United States President Donald Trump has issued China with an ultimatum that if it fails to put pressure on North Korea to disable its nuclear programme, then the US is prepared to take action against Pyongyang on its own.
“Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will,” Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times.
Asked how he would tackle North Korea, Trump said: Im not going to tell you. You know, I am not the United States of the past where we tell you where we are going to hit in the Middle East.
Trump will host the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, this Thursday and Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the two leaders are expected to discuss North Korea, Chinas ambitions in the South China Sea and trade.
Trump said he had great respect for Xi and great respect for China, adding: I would not be at all surprised if we did something that would be very dramatic and good for both countries and I hope so.
Source: Rediff