Crime and crash

Trichy, May 28: An 18-year-old boy was stabbed to death by his father who was under the influence of alcohol, after a petty quarrel with the boy's mother, on Saturday night in Edamalaipatti Pudur, Trichy. The police arrested and remanded the father to judicial custody on Sunday. S Muralitharan, a resident of Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, works as an office superintendent in the Railway Protection Force (RPF

New Delhi, May 27: A 23-year-old hardware professional, son of a retired Border Security Force officer, died after being burnt alive inside his Swift car on Saturday morning. The deceased, Ashish Rathi, was a resident of Daulatabad village in Gurgaon. The incident took place around 9.30am near Barusarai area of Najafgarh, southwest Delhi. Rathi was brought to the Safdarjung Hospital with 95% burn

Navi Mumbai, May 27: A 25-year-old nursing student was raped by her aunt's African 31-year-old boyfriend. The victim, who hails from Manipur, is currently admitted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul where she will undergo reconstructive surgery on her private parts owing to the severe injuries she sustained during the rape. She has already undergone colostomy, a surgical procedure in which a pipe

New Delhi, May 27: A 30-year-old pregnant woman was mowed down by a car on the Baba Ganganath Marg at Vasant Vihar, close to the Jawaharlal Nehru University-Priya complex crossing, on Saturday. The incident took place around 9am when the deceased was waiting with her husband, an auto driver, to go for her checkup. The deceased, Chandni (30), was a resident of Munirka. This is the third instance

Bangalore, May 23: A software engineer was allegedly found dead in his car, with his face covered in a polythene bag and body wrapped in adhesive tape in the early hours of Tuesday, near his residence at AECS Layout in Mahadevapura police station limits. Police said the deceased has been identified as Sreerag (25), from Kozhikode in Kerala. Employed with the Hewlett Packard in the City for the

Hassan, May 23: A leopard attacked a man at Machagowdanahalli in Holenarasipur taluk on Tuesday morning. The incident came to light when village residents found the body of Panduranga (26) in the shrubs on the outskirts of the village in the afternoon. Panduranga, a construction labourer, stayed at a darga near his village on Monday night. According to the village residents, he had been staying at

Srirangapatna, May 23: A KSRTC bus was set on fire by a mob when a State bus hit a two-wheeler killing two on the spot and injuring another on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway here on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Mahadevu (38), a bill collector at Sabbanakuppe Gram Panchayat and Shreya (3), daughter of Revanna. One of Revanna’s legs has been severed and he has been rushed to a

Mumbai, May 23: A couple crossing the tracks at Thakurli railway station was killed by an oncoming train on Tuesday morning. The man, Vijay Patil (27), and his seven-month-pregnant wife Priti (23) were to celebrate their first wedding anniversary with a party that evening. Vijay had gone to fetch Priti, his father Balgonda (55) and mother Chaya (52), who were coming from Kolhapur for the

New Delhi: In what could the second biggest corporate scandal after Satyam, Reebok India has alleged a Rs 8,700 crore fraud by its former Managing Director Subhinder Singh Prem and former Chief Operating Officer Vishnu Bhagat. Reebok lodged an FIR with the Gurgaon police alleging that Prem and Bhagat had 'stolen' products by setting up 'secret warehouses', fudged accounts and indulged in

Bhopal, May 22: A series of violent clashes started between two families in a village in Morena district after a 35-year-old married woman reportedly eloped with a 19-year-old youth on Saturday morning. Armed villagers of Khadoli, 26 km from Morena town, allegedly abducted another woman from the youth's family at a gun point and kept her captive even as some top police officials were on the spot