Crime and crash

New Delhi, Jan 2: A Delhi Police head constable posted at the Supreme Court today allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver in court premises. The deceased, identified as head constable Chandpal, shot himself around 8.15 AM, said a senior police officer. His duty hours were from 7 AM to 1 PM. He had been posted at the Supreme Court since April 2014. The cause of the

New Delhi, Jan 2: In a case of an attempted police cover-up, a 25-year-old man first fell to death under mysterious circumstances from the terrace of the Adarsh Nagar police station following which some policemen allegedly dumped his body elsewhere to pass it off as an unidentified corpse. Six policemen, including the Station House Officer of the police station, an Assistant Sub Inspector and four

Malappuram, Jan 1: In a shocking incident of medical apathy, a woman delivered a baby in the toilet of a medical college here after a nurse sent her to relieve herself instead of taking her complaint of pain seriously, her family said on Saturday. According to close relatives of the woman, admitted to the Manjeri Medical College and Hospital here, the staff displayed an "indifferent attitude"

Dec 30: Six people died in a fire that broke out in a Pune bakery early morning on Friday, reports said. According to media, the incident took place in a Cakes and Bakes outlet near Talab company in Kondhwa Khurd locality of the city. Six employees working in the bakery died due to suffocation, a Hindustan Times report said. “The bakery owner had locked his shop from outside as a result of which

Chennai, Dec 29: Barely a day before the ruling AIADMK’s general council meeting, several people were injured in a clash among senior cadres at party headquarters here on Wednesday. AIADMK sources said that violence erupted when supporters of expelled leader and Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa shouted slogans against former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s close aide Sasikala Natarajan becoming

Bengaluru, Dec 28: A 29-year-old woman from Bengaluru has sought divorce from her transvestite husband, who dresses and behaves like a woman. According to a report, the woman has filed a police complaint, saying that she is tired of her husband dressing up like a woman. “He loves wearing a sari and uses my makeup and accessories to dress up like a woman at night,” the woman was quoted as saying in

Ahmedabad, Dec 27: In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and forcibly confined in a farm pit for over three weeks in November and raped repeatedly by a teenager at Kotda Nayani village of Morbi district in Gujarat before she was freed earlier this month, police said today. According to a police official of Wankaner taluka police station, a case of rape, kidnapping and

New Delhi, Dec 27: Four people, including a tour guide and a bell boy of a five-star hotel in Connaught Place, were arrested on Monday for allegedly raping an American tourist in April. The 25-year-old rape survivor, who made a complaint in October, returned to India recently to depose before a magistrate and identify the accused. In her statement, the woman said five people drugged and sexually

Thane, Dec 26: A 35-year-old man from Bhiwandi in Thane, who used his four-wheeler to ferry school children, was arrested for allegedly raping two minor girls for the last six months, police said today. The accused, identified as Tulsiram Manere was arrested last night, Inspector S V Jadhav of Nizampura police station said. The accused allegedly molested and raped the victims, aged around 8 to 9

Thane, Dec 25: A 50-year-old man allegedly ended his life by hanging himself and purportedly filmed the act on his mobile phone along with a suicide note recorded in his voice, police said today. The deceased, Babu Sheikh, blamed his daughter-in-law, with whom he had a tiff, and her family for the extreme step, they said. Sheikh lived with his family at Bhaskar Nagar in Ambernath township of Thane