Crime and crash

New Delhi, Sep 15: The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside death sentence given to convict Govindachamy in Soumya murder case. The apex court, however, held him guilty of rape. Soumya, an employee of a shopping mall in Kochi, was raped and pushed out of a running train in February 1, 2011. Sowmya, who was 23 then, was pushed down from the Ernakulam-Shoranur passenger train while she was returning

Coimbatore, Sep 15: A 23-year-old woman was brutally hacked to death inside her house at Annur in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. Dhanya was working in a private company and was also helping her father with in his tailoring business. On Wednesday, Dhanya's parents Somasundaram and Sharadha left their house to attend a program in a nearby town. When they returned, they saw Dhanya lying dead in a

Hyderabad, Sep 13: Unable to digest her husband’s inhuman treatment before his family members, a home-maker and mother of two allegedly committed suicide here on Sunday morning. The case that came to light on Monday has shocked the Pusalabasti colony of Saidabad area. Sushrutha, a 31-year-old post graduate in education, alleged that her husband,Mohan, dragged her out naked from the bathroom and

Haringhata, Sep 12: Two men kept their mother’s body in their house at Simhat in Nadia district for almost nine months and the skeleton was recovered on Sunday, police said. Arun Saha (65) and Ajit Saha (55), both unmarried, told police that their mother Nani Bala Saha died on January 16 at the age of 85, and they could not take the body for cremation as it was very cold then. “We thought of

Jamakhandi (Bagalkot dist), Sep 12: Property worth Rs 3 crore was gutted after a major fire broke out in a factory, that manufactures diesel oil filter paper, on Jambgi Road in the town in the early hours of Sunday. The fire is said to have caused by electrical short circuit. No casualty was reported in the incident as the factory was closed in view of Ganesha festival. The factory belongs to SRS

Shahjahanpur, Sep 10: A 34-year-old British-Sikh was allegedly murdered by his wife and her parmour during a vacation in India, police said. Sukhjit Singh, an NRI, was murdered on September 1 allegedly by his wife Ramandeep Kaur Mann (31) who colluded with her husband's best friend Gurpreet Singh alias Mitthu during their visit to Uttar Pradesh's Banda district last month, they said. Ramandeep

Cuddalore, Sep 10: An 18-year-old nurse who attempted suicide by hanging in Virudhachalam after she was assaulted by a spurned stalker died in Villupuram on Thursday. She had been battling for life for over eight days. Police sources said Pushpalatha was employed as a staff nurse in a private hospital in Virudhachalam. The accused Dhanasekaran (20), stalked and harassed Pushpalatha for months

Bhubaneswar, Sep 9: The death toll is likely to increase even as Angul district administration is busy shifting victims to nearby hospitals. At least 20 people were killed and 25 others injured, 5 of them seriously, when a private bus in which they were travelling plunged from a bridge into a 50-ft ditch at Manitri near in Odisha’s Angul district on Friday morning. The death-toll in the accident

Gurgaon, Sep 9: More than three years after his wife was found dead in a park in Police Lines here under mysterious circumstances, the CBI has arrested Civil Judge (Senior Division) Ravneet Garg. He is currently posted at Kaithal in Haryana. Garg was produced before the Court of Special Judicial Magistrate for CBI Cases in Panchkula on Thursday. He was posted as Chief Judicial Magistrate in

Mumbai, Sep 8: A special women's court here today awarded capital punishment to 26-year-old Ankur Lal Panwar in the 2013 acid attack case on nurse Preeti Rathi, who died of multiple organ failure after suffering deep internal injuries. Special Judge A S Shende pronounced the death penalty for the convict, a day after prosecution sought the exemplary punishment for him saying acid attack is a crime