CRIME AND CRASH

Bangalore, May 7: A total of nine students were debarred from the Comed-K?examination conducted across the State on Sunday. Two students held for malpractice in Tumkur have been handed over to the police. A ?S?Srikanth, Chief Executive Officer, Comed-K, said suitable action would be initiated against the candidates caught for malpractice during the test. The Consortium had earlier announced that

Alwar, May 7: A 20-year-old girl was kidnapped from Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district two months ago and gangraped by three men for over two months in Dholpur. When the girl developed ilness, she was handed over to a quack who also allegedly raped her for several days. On Saturday, the girl somehow managed to escape from the house of the quack and approached police. After she narrated her horror

Jaipur, May 6: In a dare devil act, a 48-year-old woman jumped off a moving train to catch the robbers who snatched her gold chain in Udaipur district on Saturday. Though she sustained fractures after falling from the train, she managed to grab the men with the help of passengers and GRP personnel. The accused were handed over to the police and the gold chain was also recovered. The incident took

New Delhi, May 6: ' Nazar Teri Buri Aur Parda Mein Karoon?' 'Don't tell me how to dress, tell them not to rape,' read the placards held by citizens, activists and NGOs gathered together outside Mandi House Station on Saturday morning in protest against the relenteless stream of rape cases that have rocked the National Capital Region in recent times. With 465 rape cases registered in the city in

Bangalore, May 6: An IPS probationer escaped death when a gang of smugglers tried to mow him down. Sunil Kumar Reddy , IPS, posted at the Rippenpet police station in Hosanagar taluk of Shimoga district , was injured in the smugglers' attack late Friday night near Balur village . On a tip-off that the smugglers were carting sandalwood and rosewood out of the forest , Reddy rushed to the village

Mumbai, May 6: A nude photo of his wife in his cousin's mobile phone told him enough to gather his friends, orchestrate a plot involving Holi, bhang and consequent inebriation, and bludgeon his cousin to death, before dumping his body in the murky waters of the Malwani creek. On Thursday, three young men were arrested on charges of murdering a 21-year-old man and dumping his body in the creek. The

Kozhikode, May 5: In a shocking incident in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, former Kerala CPM leader T P Chandrasekharan, who was expelled from the party a few years back, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants. The incident took place at Vallikkad in Kozhikode district on Friday night. Chandrasekharan, 50, was riding a bike when he was attacked by the assailants. The assailants first

Jaipur, May 5: A paralysed pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter were burnt alive when their thatched hut accidentally caught fire in Jaipur on Friday, police said. Manju Devi, 25, was preparing tea on a stove when the fire broke out in the hut in the city's Shiprapath area around 7.30 am. Manju Devi and her daughter Laxmi died in the blaze, police said, adding that her husband was out for

Bangalore, May 5: A mere threat turned into tragedy. Haisnam Jakoi, a 22-year-old engineering student, died while trying to stage a suicide drama in front of his girlfriend, Seraphina (19). The plastic chair he was standing on gave way, leaving him dangling from the ceiling fan at his Bannerghatta Road flat here on Thursday. Haisnam and Seraphina, both from Imphal, had been dating for three years

Nagpur May 5: A 19-year-old college student from Bhayander faked her own kidnapping, travelled 800km to Nagpur and landed up at the doorstep of her 'Facebook friend', whom she had met online and became obsessed with. The male friend, 21-year-old Ravi (name changed), who was shocked to see the girl in his hometown, and escorted her to Mumbai, but she simply followed him back to Nagpur. Luckily for