Sakshi Dayal

Gurgaon Police confirmed that the imam was taken to the police station and made to submit an undertaking in writing, stating that he would not lead prayers in vacant plots without permission in the future.

The imam Abdul Wajid said, “We have read namaz on a vacant plot in this area for several years, and had taken permission from police for doing so after the whole controversy."

Hours after Dalal uploaded a video of himself and his alleged accomplice, Darwesh Shahpur, on Facebook, taking responsibility for the attack on Umar Khalid outside Constitution Club this week, his grandmother, Gyaano Devi, said she has no idea where her grandson is.

On Wednesday, the 70-acre piece of land — which has been under dispute for some time and was allegedly the cause of the violence that ensued Tuesday — had a single blood stain as the only sign of violence.

The Dalit youth and his father are in jail after a case was registered against them on the allegation that they had forged documents to change the girl’s age from 17 to 18 years.

The players — aged between 18 and 25 from Delhi, Hyderabad, Nuh and Jammu — included students as well as those working as shopkeepers, ragpickers and at auto repair shops.

The girl’s biological parents, as well as her aunt and uncle, who had adopted her, were arrested on Friday, with the police saying they had confessed to plotting her murder along with one of her cousins because they disapproved of her marriage to Sombir.

The Haryana State Commission for Women (HSCW), meanwhile, has offered to perform the last rites.

When the two first met, or how their relationship developed, appears to be a mystery to everyone who knew them.

Two FIRs have been registered at the Punahana police station, one against “around 150 people” who allegedly attacked the police team with “sticks, rods, and weapons”, and another against an unidentified person who fired the fatal shot.

“A case was registered under IPC section 506 and Section 6 of the POCSO Act,” Subhash Boken, PRO of Gurgaon police said.

“It is a problem here each year, during three-four months around this time. The crops grow tall during this period, so it is easy for gangs to make away with cattle via the expressway,” said Rajender, a resident of the village.

"When we reached the spot, we saw a man's body lying in the fields. He was bare chested and was only wearing a pair of red underpants. There were cuts on his hands and neck...” said ASI Rambir, the complainant in the case.

According to police, a case was registered under IPC sections 279 (rash driving) and 304A (death by negligence) at Sushant Lok police station.

Hours earlier, the woman had given birth to her first child — a boy — who also died minutes after he was born.

The arrest comes after Jafaruddin (22) filed a case at the police station, alleging that two of the accused forced the barber to shave off his beard — even as he protested that his religion forbids the same.

While the two chain snatchers are already in police remand, the goldsmith will be produced in court today.

The mahapanchayat demanded that relatives of the deceased not be harassed by police in the name of investigation, and that the government work towards promoting a message of peace in the area by taking steps such as organising a “sadbhavana yatra”.

In the last one-and-a-half years, 11 underpasses have come up in Gurgaon to make commuting smoother. But with five deaths in last seven months, experts say more needs to be done to make the structures safer. The Indian Express reports.