Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Dec 18: As a part of anti black money crackdown operations in the city, income tax department officials have recovered Rs 66 lakh in cash, all in new Rs 2000 notes. The first incident, that occurred on the night of December 16, was reported at the Telugu Academy in Himayatnagar when an I-T teamintercepted few people who ran into a nearby apartment on seeing the team. "Search of the

New Delhi, Dec 18: On the eve of the horrific Nirbhaya gang rape anniversary, a 15-year old girl was brutally gang raped by her landlord and his two accomplices after being drugged while she was preparing dinner for her relatives on Thursday evening in East Delhi's Ashok Nagar. Police have arrested all three accused in the case. In her statement to the police, the girl has said that the three

Kochi, Dec 17: Three students from Delhi's St Stephen's College and a resort owner from Kerala drowned in the Periyar river in the state this evening, police said. Third year Sanskrit students Anubhav Chandra and Aditya Patel, first year Chemistry student Kenneth John, and Benny, a private resort owner from Kerala, drowned around 6.30 PM at Paniyeli Poru -- a tourist spot. The bodies were

New Delhi, Dec 16: Exactly four years since the gruesome 2012 Delhi gangrape, a girl was raped in a moving car in Delhi's Moti Bagh are on Thursday night, reports said. According to media, the girl was raped in a moving car bearing a Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sticker. "The car is owned by a CISF head constable. The incident took place around 9 pm last night," it said. A media report stated

Hyderabad, Dec 15: For over an hour on Wednesday afternoon, a police building in Hyderabad's Old City area was converted into a counselling zone for nearly 65 young Hyderabadis caught watching porn. Parents were also invited. All the children were boys; some were as young as 11. Police sources say that they tailed the teens after parents complained that their children were spending inordinate

Pune, Dec 15: Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise announcement to outlaw currency notes of higher denomination, the District Central Cooperative (DCC) Banks in Maharashtra collected Rs 5000 crore in old notes from November 10 to 14. However,the RBI subsequently debarred the DCC banks from accepting withdrawn notes. As most accounts in the cooperative (DCC) banks are of farmers, the

Jabalpur (MP), Dec 14: A 38-year-old small screen actor Kamlesh Pandey, who among other serials has played role of an inspector in Hindi serial Crime Patrol allegedly shot himself dead over a domestic issue here, police said today. "Pandey pumped a bullet in his chest at his relative Anjani Chaturvedi's place in Sanjeevani Nagar Colony yesterday," area inspector Sanjay Bhalawi said. "Pandey came

New Delhi, Dec 14: In a joint operation conducted by the Income Tax department and the Crime Branch, Rs 3.25 crore in old notes was seized from a hotel in Karol Bagh area in Delhi, news agency ANI reported. The money reportedly belongs to Mumbai-based hawala operators. While five people have been arrested, the Income Tax department is conducting further inquiry. The seizure follows a string of

Bengaluru, Dec 12: A 28-year-old man, who was reported missing since Friday, was found murdered at Saraswathipuram in Vijayanagar on Sunday. The victim Nanjundaswamy of Kaveripura in Kamakshipalya was working at the e-commerce marketplace Flipkart’s Byatarayanapura branch office as a delivery staff, the police said. He left his office for home around 2.30 pm on Friday. As he did not go home, his

New Delhi, Dec 11: A love triangle, an insatiable greed for money, and a possible sex racket merged to make a compelling motive in the murder of two women, whose mutilated corpses were found in south Delhi’s Munirka last month. Delhi police said on Saturday they arrested a Nepalese man and a woman from Meghalaya for the gruesome murders and cracked the mystery of the corpses found within 100