Jiah Khan’s boyfriend arrested on suspicion of abetting Bollywood actress’s suicide!

The son of a Bollywood couple has been arrested on suspicion of abetting the suicide of his girlfriend, actress Jiah Khan, police said.

Suraj Pancholi was arrested late Monday, Officer D. Deokar said.

Friends and relatives carry a coffin containing the body of Bollywood actress Jiah Khan during her funeral in Mumbai, on June 5, 2013.

Deokar confirmed Khan, 25, committed suicide at her home in Mumbai last week. A letter she wrote alleges that Pancholi cheated on her, physically abused her and forced her to have an abortion. Police authenticated the letter was from Khan, and Indian media have published it.

Five letters written by actor Jiah Khan were recovered from the house of Suraj Pancholi, arrested on Monday on charges of abetting the actor's suicide. The police got Suraj's custody for two days after they told the Andheri magistrate's court that they wanted to question him about the letters and also her claim that she had had an abortion. 

In a six-page letter Jiah's mother Rabiya handed over to the police, she claimed Jiah also alleged she was tortured by her boyfriend. Jiah hadn't named anybody, but Rabiya insisted she was referring Suraj. 

Following claims by Rabiya that the actor was in a live-in relationship with Suraj, son of actor couple Aditaya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab for over a year, they are also checking if the law against domestic violence is applicable to the case. 

"Jiah's mother said in her complaint that her daughter was in a live-in relationship with Suraj and he promised to marry her. The law says that in such cases, the domestic violence Act is applicable. We are discussing with legal experts and examining the details of their relationship," said a senior officer. 

Jiah and Suraj were living with their respective families but would spend time together, like the weekend before she killed herself, and the police are examining if they can be considered a live-in couple as claimed by Rabiya. The investigators are concentrating on finding out if anyone had assaulted Jiah and instigated her to commit suicide last Monday. Rabiya told the police there were injuries on Jiah's face and she suspected that someone had assaulted her when she went to Suraj's house before her death and demanded to see him after he sent her a break-up bouquet. She was turned away. 

In their remand application, the police said they have recovered a laptop, mobile, an iPod and letters from Suraj's house and were examining them. "Suraj's custody was required to collect collaborative evidence to prove that he had instigated Jiah to commit suicide," said the officer. 

Suraj's advocate told the court that his client was disturbed by the incident. Pointing out Suraj is four years younger to the 25-year-old Jiah, he wondered how he could abet her suicide. 

Pancholis try to meet Jiah Khan's mother In a dramatic move, Suraj Pancholi's mother Zarina and sister Sana ignored the security guards of Juhu's Sagar Sangeet building and tried to barge into Jiah Khan's mother Rabiya's apartment. The media followed them. Rabiya refused to meet them or accept their condolences and told Zarina that her son had beaten her daughter, a charge Zarina denied, said a source.

Pancholi’s parents are Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab. Neither they nor their son has spoken about the allegations.

Fatai Rolling Dollar Is Dead!

Juju and highlife musician Fatai Rolling-dollar died at Age 88 at a specialist hospital in surulere, Lagos state, south west Nigeria.

The singer died early Wednesday morning from respiratory failure after spending over three weeks in the  hospital.
According to family members, the ‘wan mere si number wa’, crooner took ill in the united state of america where he had gone to perform. He left the shores of the country on march 17 this year and returned ill after two months.

The multi-instrumentalist who is best known for his popular comeback to mainstream recognition after years of obscurity during his over 60 years musical career, is survived by two wives and many children and grand children.

Fashola Mourns

The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has expressed sadness on the passage of highlife icon, Fatai Olayiwola Olagunju saying the loss of the musical innovator would reverberate around the musical world and beyond.

In a condolence letter to Funmilayo Olagunju, the widow of the late musician popularly known as Fatai Rolling Dollar, Governor Fashola said he was a first rate guitarist under whose tutelage several other musical legends learnt to play the instrument. ‘’Your husband was a musical innovator who made a great contribution to the profile of Nigerian Highlife music on the global stage,’’ he said.

According to the Governor, Rolling Dollar is assured of his place amongst the pantheon of Nigerian musical greats with hits like ‘Won Kere si Number Wa’ and ‘Saworo’ enduring in the memory of generations to come.

‘’Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s it was impossible to escape the presence of this iconic genius across Lagos. I am pleased and gratified that in the latter part of his life Lagos State was able to reacquaint itself once again with his singular talents,’’ he said.

While praying for the peaceful repose of the soul of the departed musician, Governor Fashola urged the family to find succour and comfort in the love of  the legion of fans that admired your Fatai Rolling Dollar’s work.

Fire forces 6 out of home, shuts down Jefferson during morning rush hour!

Six people were forced out of their home early this morning after it caught fire for unknown reasons.

The blaze broke out shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Friday, June 7. Several people, including an off-duty firefighter, saw the flames as they drove past the home on Jefferson Highway.

Emergency responders were forced to shut down traffic on the road between I-12 and Bluebonnet. It was not fully reopened until shortly before 9:00 a.m.

Six people were inside the home when firefighters arrived. They were all able to escape unharmed. The home was heavily damaged by the fire and smoke.

An investigator is working to determine the cause of the fire.

Plane crashes in Baker, sets two houses on fire!

Emergency respondents are on the scene of a plane crash in Baker.

 Details are limited at this time. We do not know the size of the plane, nor the number of passengers. However, we're being told that it is likely a small, charter plane.

Witnesses tell NBC33 News that the plane is engulfed in flames and it can be seen from a far distance. Officials say there are two houses that are reportedly on fire as well. A third house has sustained damage.

Ghana deports 100 Chinese illegal mining!

About 100 Chinese citizens arrested in Ghana for illegal mining will be deported next week but they will not face criminal charges, an immigration official said on Friday.

The arrests have been carried out since June 1 across the west African country and particularly in the central Ashanti region, a major gold mining hub.

"I believe by the middle of next week we should have repatriated them," Michael Amoako-Atta, a spokesperson at the Ghana Immigration Service 

Catherine Wells-Burr: Trio Guilty Of Murder!

Catherine Wells-Burr

A Polish factory worker has been found guilty of murdering his British girlfriend after hatching a plot with his jealous secret lover and her uncle.

Rafal Nowak, 31, killed his girlfriend Catherine Wells-Burr as she slept at the couple's new home in Chard, Somerset.

His lover Anna Lagwinowicz, 32, and her uncle, Tadevsz Dmytryszyn, 38, then helped him dump Miss Wells-Burr's body in her car at a nearby roadside and set fire to it.

A jury at Bristol Crown Court convicted Nowak, Lagwinowicz and Dmytryszyn of murdering the 23-year-old business analyst in September 2012. They will be sentenced on Monday.

The Bath Spa University graduate died as a result of a plot driven by revenge, jealousy and greed.

With her death the three defendants would secure a £123,000 life insurance payout and a half share of a £137,000 two-bedroom house.

The murder was the result of months of secret meetings and phone calls between Nowak and Lagwinowicz, with Miss Wells-Burr oblivious to what was going on.

Nowak smothered a sleeping Miss Wells-Burr with a pillow, before Lagwinowicz and Dmytryszyn removed her body from the house and drove it in her red Ford Focus to a beauty spot at Ashill.

They placed the victim in the driver's seat and set fire to the car at 6am - 20 minutes after Nowak had clocked into work - providing him with what he thought was the perfect alibi.

The defendants had spent months leaving a false trail for detectives, creating fake profiles for Miss Wells-Burr on adult websites and sending texts to her phone from a supposed mystery lover.

Nowak, of Willow Way, Chard, Lagwinowicz, of South Street, Taunton, and Dmytryszyn, of Holway Avenue, Taunton, denied having any part in the death during their trial.

But the jury, who sat through seven weeks of harrowing evidence, found the trio guilty of murder having seen through their web of lies.

Members of Miss Wells-Burr's family wept in court as the verdicts were announced. The three murderers showed no emotion.

During the trial, a heavily-tattooed Nowak wept in the witness box as he insisted he played no part in the death of his "true love".

But the cheating factory worker - who continued to have sex with Lagwinowicz while dating Miss Wells-Burr - failed to provide the court with any other explanation for how his girlfriend could have died.

The father-of-one, who has a wife and teenage son in his native Poland, told the jury: "Everyone blames me for something that I never done."

The court heard how Nowak showed no emotion at all when police discovered Miss Wells-Burr's body in her burnt out car on the morning of September 12.

Her mother, Jayne Wells-Burr, told the jury that he "didn't mention Catherine at all" - instead asking for a steak dinner after his initial release from police custody.

Lagwinowicz, who frequently shook her head and laughed in the dock when Nowak suggested she had been responsible for the killing, refused to take to the witness stand.

Dmytryszyn did not give evidence in his defence during the trial either.

Miss Wells-Burr's parents Jayne and Phil Wells-Burr and her sister Leanne, 21, were in court for the verdict.

Speaking afterwards, Mrs Wells-Burr said: "Leanne, Phil and I are here today because of the cruel, callous, wicked, evil and sickening act of murder against our beautiful Catherine.

"Catherine was an inspirational, amazing, caring, kind, intelligent young woman, who had her whole life ahead of her with so much potential after gaining her First Class Bachelor of Honours Degree in Business Management at Bath Spa University.

"We were all very proud of her and the person she had become.

"The hatred shown to her has truly shocked us, especially the hatred shown by Rafal Nowak, a man who was meant to have loved her."

Prince Philip "satisfactory" after operation!

Prince Philip, the 91-year-old husband of the Queen, is making satisfactory progress in hospital after an operation on Friday, a royal spokesman said.

His wife of 65 years carried on with her official engagements, visiting state broadcaster, the BBC, just half a mile from the central London hospital where the operation took place.

Philip, who turns 92 next week, was admitted to the London Clinic on Thursday and is expected to remain for two weeks after what Buckingham Palace described as "an exploratory operation following abdominal investigations".

"The results will now be analysed," the palace said in a statement. "At this early stage he is progressing satisfactorily."

It was the fourth time Prince Philip, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, has undergone hospital treatment since Christmas 2011.

Philip was admitted to hospital during the queen's Diamond Jubilee last year with a bladder infection.

The 87-year-old queen visited the BBC's newly opened headquarters alone on Friday. She left without making public reference to Philip's hospital stay.

Philip was taken to the London Clinic by appointment after attending a garden party at Buckingham Palace with the queen. Television footage showed him in a grey top hat and tails, smiling and chatting with guests.

Prime Minister David Cameron described Philip as an "extraordinarily dedicated public servant and such an enormous support for our sovereign".

"The whole country will be thinking about him, thinking about the family and wishing him well," Cameron told reporters.

Married in 1947, Philip - the son of the exiled Prince Andrew of Greece - is renowned in Britain for his outspoken comments and off-the-cuff remarks.

Against a backdrop of trumpets and cheering crowds, the queen and Philip were joined by 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday to celebrate 60 years since her coronation.