CRIME AND CRASH

Pune, April 1: A 16-year-old boy was abducted and murdered allegedly by three of his friends, including two minors, who had demanded a ransom of Rs 50,000 after being inspired by a crime-based TV serial. Shubham Shirke was kidnapped yesterday from Dighi area and was taken to a nearby hill where he was strangled to death. The accused then made a call to his father Mahadev Shirke demanding Rs 50,000

Mangalore, April 1: An elderly worker was killed after she was hit by a car near Panambur beach on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Shivamma (60) from Bijapur. The police said that she died on the way to hospital. A case has been registered

New Delhi, April 1: This is one 'body in bag' that didn't go past the cops and landed the killers in jail. For once, the policemen at the picket - this one in New Friends Colony - didn't just wave the vehicle through but insisted on checking the package that the passengers were so zealously guarding on the rear seat. It was around 4am on Saturday when two constables, Rajeev Mishra and Sheikh-ul

Bangalore, April 1: Two boys were killed and another seriously injured when the scooter they were riding rammed into a BMTC bus near Ullala lake near Tavarekere in the City on Saturday. Suhas, 16, and Subhashaiah, 13, are the dead. Kusheshaiah, 16, who sustained head injury, is being treated at a hospital. Suhas and Kusheshaiah, classmates at the Vani School, Machohalli, had gone to pick up

New Delhi, March 31: A deputy director in the defence ministry and his wife, a classical dancer, were found dead in mysterious circumstances at their home in Hudco Place, south Delhi, on Friday afternoon. The body of Kumar Yashkar, 42, who had studied at the London School of Economics, was found charred near the kitchen while his wife, Archana Sharma, 34, had been strangled with a chunni in the

Agra, March 30: In a tragic incident of patricide in an Uttar Pradesh village, a youth shot dead his father for refusing to let him marry the girl he loved. The incident took place on Thursday night in Firozabad district's Karaura village, about 30 km from here, police said. Anni fled after killing his father, Man Singh, who had castigated him for going around with a girl from the village. After a

Patiala (Punjab), March 30: Punjab minister Jagir Kaur was today convicted for conspiring in forcible abduction, kidnapping and wrongful confinement in connection with the killing of her daughter Harpreet Kaur 12 years back but was acquitted of the murder charge. Kaur, a former President of Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC), was awarded five years imprisonment and also fined Rs 5,000

Chennai, March 30: A software engineer couple were arrested at Kamaraj domestic air terminal here on Friday when they tried to smuggle Rs 75 lakh worth gold biscuits on board a Madurai bound flight, police said. Kannan and Valli, both software engineers had arrived from USA via Dubai early this morning and were about to board a Madurai-bound flight at 8.40 AM when CISF personnel found 2.360 kg of

Kanpur, March 30: A sub-inspector and a constable of Uttar Pradesh police were shot at and critically wounded inside a police station by a drunken youth here early Friday, police said. Sub-inspector Devendra Singh was shot at twice in the head by a youth at the Naubasta police station where he is the station officer. He was rushed to the Regency Hospital where he is battling for life, police

Mumbai, March 30: An 18-year-old girl committed suicide in a hotel room near the airport at Andheri (E). Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan on Thursday morning. The deceased, Rajanala Kusuma Sri Shambhavi, ran away from her Hyderabad home on March 3. She had stayed in around dozen hotels in Mumbai before checking into the Andheri hotel on Tuesday. She had left a suicide note stating