Crime and crash

Kottayam, Apr 3: A 21-year-old girl was arrested under the Prevention of Children against Sexual Offence act (POCSO) for staying with her minor lover at his house in Kottayam district of Kerala. The arrest was made on a complaint lodged by the 17-year-old boy's mother, that her son was sexually assaulted by the girl. Acting on the complaint, Ramapuram Police went to the location and hauled out the

Bengaluru, Apr 2: A gang of seven armed men broke into the house of a chartered accountant, beat up the family members and tied their hands and legs before fleeing with valuables worth Rs. 2.6 lakh at Seegehalli in K.R. Puram early on Saturday. Partiban, a mobile company employee, woke up when the gang broke open the front door of his house. They beat him up and threatened him at gunpoint before

New York, Apr 1: A judge in North Carolina has ordered a woman to pay $500,000 (Rs. 3.2 crore) for writing a Facebook post falsely accusing her former friend of killing her son. According to a report in Telegraph.co.uk, Jacquelyn Hammond from Asheville wrote on Facebook, in 2015, of Davyne Dial, "I didn't get drunk and kill my kid." But Ms Dial who claimed to have nothing to do with her son's

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 31: Specs of blood in a bathroom at a residential school in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar made the warden so furious that she allegedly forced some 70 girls to strip to check who was menstruating. The girls were allegedly also made to sit in the classroom naked. According to a complaint filed by the parents of the students of Kasturba Gandhi Residential School, the girls were

Kolkata, Mar 30: At least two persons were charred to death in a fire at a hotel in southern Kolkata early today, police said. Anup Agarwal and Jugalkishore Gupta, guests at the hotel, were rushed to a hospital after suffering serious injuries in the fire but could not be saved. The fire broke out at around 3 am, a senior police officer said, adding that up to 30 persons, including the hotel’s

Gurgaon, Mar 29: More than 300 meat shops, including an outlet of popular fast food chain KFC in Gurgaon’s Sector 14, were forced to shut down by protesters who claimed to be Shiv Sena members on Tuesday for Navratri — the nine-day-festival observed by Hindus across the country. Protesters targeted shops in Sadar Bazar area on the right side of Delhi-Gurgaon expressway On Tuesday. On Wednesday

Belagavi, Mar 28: A 28-year-old man at Hulkund village in Ramdurg taluk is accused of forcing his wife to have sex with a dog. The woman went along with it initially but later went to police and got him arrested. Sahadev (name changed), a tractor driver by profession, had been showing his wife, Sharmila (not her real name), pornography and expected her to act like pornstars. Sometime ago, he

Jodhpur, Mar 27: A 20-year-old woman was burnt alive in her village near Rajasthan's Jodhpur on Sunday allegedly for protesting the cutting of trees - an incident that has generated anger and shock. The police say the young woman, Lalita, had objected to the cutting of trees in her farm for the construction of a road near the village, around 100 km from Jodhpur. The row escalated and a group of

Mysuru, Mar 26: Ranjan Solanki (25), whose wedding was scheduled in April, and was busy inviting friends and relatives, died in a road accident along with three other family members near Hunsur, some 160 kms away from Bengaluru late on Saturday. Rajan, who was at the wheel, lost control over his four-wheeler, ford endeavour, while negotiating a curve near Nallurpala in Hunsur resulting in tragic

Jaipur, Mar 25: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped, abused, and blackmailed for over one and a half years by eight teachers of a private school in Bikaner. The minor's parents, in an FIR filed with the Nokha police station on Friday, alleged that the girl was forced to take abortion pills after she got pregnant. According to the FIR, she was first assaulted in April 2015. "We have registered