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Bizarre Bazaar: June 11 08
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
The ordeal of Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, held for allegedly possessing opium, continues as he spends his second week in detention in Dubai. No charges have been filed, and the case has been referred to the local attorney general’s office. The 25-year-old fast bowler was detained by customs authorities at the Dubai International Airport on June 1 on his way back to Lahore via Dubai from Mumbai where he had played the Indian Premier League (IPL) semi-final for Delhi Daredevils against eventual tournament winners Rajasthan Royals on May 30.
BHUBANESWAR, India
Four people have been arrested for killing leopards and possessing their skins in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district. The four, including a former village council chief, were arrested Saturday in a village near the Similipal Tiger Reserve. The reserve has around 200 leopards.
AHMEDABAD, India
Six labourers were killed after inhaling a poisonous gas while cleaning an underground tank at a ceramic plant. Two labourers went into an underground tank of Comet Ceramic Company’s plant to clean it. They inhaled a poisonous gas that had reportedly seeped in due to a leak. Feeling giddy, they shouted for help and four other men rushed to save them. All six lost consciousness and were dead when they were brought out of the tank.
CHENNAI, India
Three children were injured when a cache of bullets hidden in an old well exploded in the city’s northern suburb. Searches led to the discovery of two bundles containing over 2,000 decade-old bullets hidden in the apparently abandoned well. The sudden movement of the children, aged between 11 to 13 years old, as they jumped into the well is believed to have set off the bullets, a police official said.
NEW DELHI, India
India’s most controversial death-row convict wants a speedy conclusion to his ordeal and requested he be hanged immediately. Mohamed Afzal, convicted for the December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament and held in solitary confinement in the capital’s high security Tihar Jail for the last three years, accuses the government of dilly-dallying on his death sentence, which he claims has made him "delusional."
CHENNAI, India
After reportedly admitting to running the racket for more than 12 years since quitting a white-collar job at a cultural academy, a man has been arrested for fraud after fleecing over 100 people by selling fake doctorate degrees. The suspect, claimed to represent the non-existent "America West University," would charge between $1,500 and $2,400 for issuing ‘doctorate’ degrees to them. The scam was exposed during a recent reference check of one of the documents for one of the people.
KOLHAPUR, India
Seventeen people were killed and 30 others injured Monday in a road accident involving a state transport bus and car in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district. According to the police, the driver of the state bus, with 55 passengers, lost control while trying to avert a collision and fell into a culvert. Most of the casualties were bus passengers. In another rain-related car crash, veteran Marathi film and stage actor Vihang Nayak was killed on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. His driver also was killed in the accident.
BANGALORE, India
Three former software engineers and their three accomplices have been arrested on charges of kidnapping technicians in this IT hub of India. Police said all six — ranging in age from 25 to 40 — had left their jobs and turned to crime to get rich quickly. Two cars, weapons, about $9,500 and six cell-phones were seized. The gang would kidnap software engineers and threaten to blow them up with explosives if they did not pay a ransom.
BANGKOK, Thailand
Hot young celebrity couple Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone have been tapped as the best new actors at the Bollywood Oscars in Thailand. At the International India Film Festival Awards, hosted in a different country each year, Kapoor took the gong award for his role in the romance Saawariya, while his stunning girlfriend picked up one for Om Shanti Om.
NEW DELHI, India
A man, who climbed up a drain pipe to the 15th floor of a multi-storeyed residential building to meet a woman he loved, fell to his death in Delhi’s suburb Gurgaon. Rajiv Kumar, 32, who works as a driver, wanted to meet the domestic help in the apartment but lost his footing in the dead of night. "There is no one that we can hold accountable for the accident but the victim himself, who was foolish enough to climb up the drain pipe," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Sateesh Balan.
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