Crime and crash

Garwah/Medininagar (Jharkhand), May 19: Four persons were killed and six persons injured in a shootout allgedly by accomplices of a sand contractor and a retaliatory attack by a mob in Garwah district today, police said. The shootout ensued after villagers resisted the contractor from lifting sand from a ghat, killing a man and his two sons. The villagers also lynched an employee of the contractor

Jamshedpur, May 19: Six persons were lynched by villagers in Seraikela-Kharswan district on the suspicion that they were child lifters, the police said. The incidents took place under Rajnagar police station area following which agitated locals also torched two police vehicles. Three persons were lynched by the villagers who suspected them of being child lifters in Nagadih, within the limits of

Panaji, May 19: A foot bridge connecting Sanvordem and Curchorem villages in South Goa district of Goa collapsed on Thursday, killing two people and injuring several others. The exact number of persons missing was still not known. The tragedy took place after a crowd had assembled on the several decade-old dilapidated bridge to watch an operation to rescue a youth who allegedly jumped into the

Lucknow, May 17: The stories of men forcibly taking away their lovers from the wedding venues are quite common but in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district a woman did exactly the opposite. The woman allegedly kidnapped her lover from the wedding venue at Bhawani village in the district late on Monday night at gunpoint, according to the reports. Police sources said that the woman, a resident of the

Bengaluru, May 16: Three construction workers from Jharkhand have been arrested for killing a co-worker when he failed to repay a Rs 5,000-loan. On April 1, construction workers digging a foundation pit in Classic Orchid Layout found a body. The deceased was identified as Sahadev Roy, a construction worker from Jharkhand. Police questioned scores of people over the murder, including labourers and

New Delhi, May 15: Two college students died and five others were injured after their car fell off from the Punjabi Bagh flyover in west Delhi on Monday morning, the police said. The car had seven occupants who were on their way to appear for an exam. While two persons died, the others are undergoing treatment at a city hospital. The victims are first-year students of Delhi Institute of

Gurgaon, May 15: A 22-year-old woman from Sikkim was allegedly raped by three men in a moving car here and thrown out on a road in Delhi in yet another chilling rape incident in Haryana days after the Nirbhaya-like case in Sonipat. The woman was attacked at around 2 AM when she was returning from Delhi to her residence in Sector-17 here. As she reached near her house, she was dragged by three men

Sonipat, May 13: A 23-year-old woman was gang raped and brutally murdered with her mutilated body being found in Rohtak district, police said today. Stray dogs had bitten away the victim's face and lower portion of her body which was spotted by a passerby in the urban estate area of Rohtak on May 11, they said. "Two persons, Sumit and Vikas, have been arrested in this connection," Sub-inspector

Bengaluru, May 12: Three men, who allegedly duped a city-based jeweller by paying him Rs 32 lakh in photocopied banknotes, were arrested by police on Wednesday. The suspects had given photocopies of 2,000-rupee notes to buy one kg of gold on the busy KG Road in the heart of Bengaluru on April 24. Police gave their names as Vinod Tilakchand (45), Hemanth Gowda (33) and Harish Kumar (31) — all from

Cuddalore, May 11; A 17-year-old youth was today hacked to death here by members of an unidentified gang who severed his head and threw it inside the Reddichavavadi police station in neighbouring Tamil Nadu. The body of the deceased, identified as Swethan, was dumped in a lake bed in Bahoor village of Puducherry. After going through the CCTV footage of cameras near the police station, three