Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Jun 4: KG Halli police on Saturday arrested the accused in the minor rape case within 12 hours of the crime. The accused, Veeresha, 24, son of Durgappa, who is a ragpicker by profession has confessed to his crime and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) charges have been slapped against him. The case was solved by a team led by Ajay Hilori, IPS, DCP East within 12

Lucknow, Jun 2: He had never imagined that his beard, which he had kept owing to his religious beliefs, will one day put his life in danger. In a shocking incident, a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district, about 400 kilometres from here, allegedly poured scalding water on her husband for not shaving his beard. The incident occurred at Jamalpur Colony in Quarsi area in the district on Thursday

Coimbatore, Jun 2: Four people, including a 12-year-old girl and two women, were trampled to death by a tusker at Ganeshapuram and Vellalore in Coimbatore city in the early hours of Friday. The deceased have been identified as Gayathri, 12, daughter of Vijayakumar of Ganeshapuram, P Palanisamy, 73, of Kambar Street at Vellalore, B Nagarathinam, 50, and her friend M Jothimani, 68, of Vellalore. The

Jamshedpur, Jun 2: A man with the help of a tantrik allegedly sacrificed a seven-month-old baby to appease God, so that he and his wife could have a child in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, police said today. Bhadoi Kalindi and a tantrik, Karmu Kalindi were arrested by police yesterday from Chaida village under Tiruldih police station, said Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Chandil), Sandeep

Noida, Jun 1: A 23-year-old software engineer working for a reputed mobile manufacturing company was shot dead at Shatabdi Rail Vihar society in Sector 62 of Noida on Wednesday morning. The deceased, identified as Anjali Rathour, was a graduate from Lovely Professional University, and was working as a Graduate Engineer in Lava mobile company in Noida Sector 63. According to reports, Anjali was

New Delhi, May 31: A 29-year-old research scholar from the IIT allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday night by hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room inside the campus. Police have recovered no suicide note. Officials say that the woman, Manila Devak, was in the final year of pursuing her PhD. She has been residing at the Nalanda hostel at the campus. Police had received a call around 8pm

Bengaluru, May 30: A female doctor in her late 40s has complained to police that an unidentified person had asked her to part with Rs 20 lakh or else he would leak a video he had recorded when she was taking bath at home. The doctor, a gynaecologist and a single mother, said that the suspect left a typed letter on the table of her cabin in her clinic in Yeshwantpur. In the letter, he asked her to

New Delhi, May 29: A 33-year-old e-rickshaw driver, Ravinder, was brutally beaten to death with brass knuckles and bricks wrapped in towels, allegedly by a group of Delhi University students, on Saturday evening. The provocation? He had stopped two of the students from urinating in the open at north-west Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar. Police said the incident took place near Gate No. 4 of GTB Nagar

Rampur, May 29: In a shocking incident, a video footage showing 14 youths molesting two girls in broad daylight in a village under Tanda police station in Rampur has gone viral on the social media, triggering an outrage in the state where the incidents of crime have seen a spurt recently. In the video, the girls are seen objecting to the assault and trying to defend themselves while they are

Bengaluru, May 28: A seven-year-old boy, who had sustained severe burns after an LPG gas cylinder exploded at his house in Marathahalli, succumbed on Saturday. The deceased is Nikhil Karun. Nikhil's sister Neha (3) is still critical and is being treated at the Victoria Hospital. She is said to have sustained about 40% burns. Nikhil and Neha are children of Karun and Maya, both from Nepal.?They