Crime and crash

Hyderabad, April 11: A 13-year-old girl was impregnated allegedly by her would-be father-in-law in Shamshabad. Jayaram, 40, a farmer from Pedatupra village of Shamshabad, had fixed his son Samya's marriage with the victim from the same village, a year ago. "After both the families agreed for the marriage, the girl started working at Jayaram's farm. He raped her seven months ago. After committing

Sindhanur (Raichur dist), April 11: Twelve people were killed, 11 of them on the spot, in a head-on collision between a lorry and an ambulance near Dadesugur in the taluk in the wee hours of Tuesday. Gangamma, another victim, died during treatment at a hospital in Bellary. The victims, labourers from Kudlur and Hattikuni in Yadgir taluk, were working in Bangalore. They were transporting the body

Malda, April 11: A groom is fighting for his life after being beaten up and forced to drink poison by goons on the night of his wedding. He accuses the father of the girl he had loved -and ditched - of carrying out the attack. Hefjur Rahman of Kheria, a village in Ratua, had a long affair with a neighbour and the two families apparently had no problem with the match. While Hefjur's father, Abdul

New Delhi, April 10: A Delhi Police constable has died and another has been injured after a Mercedes, allegedly being driven at high speed, ran them over in New Delhi's Paschim Vihar area a little after 1 am today. The two police constables, 39-year-old Deepak Singh Chauhan and 24-year-old Amit Kumar, were on night patrolling on a motorcycle when they were hit from behind. Mr Chauhan, a father of

Udupi, April 10: A worker from Bagalkot district was found murdered in a house at the Katte Acharya Road here on Monday. The Udupi Town Police gave the name of the dead man as Basava (40). It is said that his employer, Shaukat Ali, who runs a transport firm saw Parveen Kapoor having dinner in the house while Prabhu from Haveri was waiting outside on the night of Sunday. However, when Mr. Ali went

Madurai, April 10: A plus-two student was stabbed to death by a gang in Virudhunagar on the wee hours of Monday. Police have arrested eight persons in this connection. Police said, M Ramesh (17) son of Mahalingam, and his brother Satheesh (16), an SSLC student, who is appearing for the examination now had gone to an exhibition on Sunday, along with some others. The boys had allegedly got into a

Thane, April 10: The Vartak Nagar police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly selling off his 14-year-old sister for Rs 60,000. Five others were also nabbed. Deepak Gadekar allegedly fixed the "deal" to marry off his sister to a 32-year-old man for cash. The minor's "marriage" to Dinesh Mali was said to have been illegally solemnized at a temple in Gujarat. The police said Dinesh had been

Chennai, April 9: Even as hundreds of students took the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on Sunday to get closer to their IIT dream, it was a sad day for the students on campus at IIT- Madras. Kuldeep Yadav, a second-year student of civil engineering, allegedly committed suicide on Sunday morning by hanging himself from a fan with a nylon rope. The incident occurred in a ground floor room of the

Noida, April 9: The safety of women in Noida has once again come under the scanner after a 28-year-old woman was allegedly drugged and gang-raped in a moving car on Saturday and then dumped near Kalindi Kunj. Police said one accused has been arrested while the other is absconding with the car in which the victim was raped. Noida police said, the victim, a native of Darjeeling, was gang-raped by

Bangalore, April 9: In a painful throwback to the case involving Baby Falak, a three-month-old Bangalore baby girl is battling for life in a City hospital after her father brutally tortured her for two days and attempted to kill her as he wanted a son. The incident came to light when Afreen’s mother Reshma Banu brought the child to Vani Vilas hospital for treatment. Dr Gangadhar Belawadi, in