Crime and crash

Gurgaon, February 21: A Japanese national and managing director of Olympus Medical Systems committed suicide inside a children's park in a luxury high-rise apartment complex in Gurgaon's Sushant Lok on Monday. Tsutomi Omori, 49, was discovered hanging from the iron railings of a boundary wall inside a children's park in DLF The Icon apartment complex in Sector 43-Sushant Lok by a gardener at

Mumbai, February 21: The Mumbai Crime Branch today charge sheeted journalist Jigna Vora under stringent provisions of MCOCA and various other penal offences for her alleged role in the sensational murder of senior crime reporter J Dey. Vora has been charged under various sections of IPC including murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence, besides stringent provisions of Maharashtra

Mumbai, February 20: The Bombay High Court has reduced the life sentence awarded to a man - who killed his wife for not cooking food for him - to ten years in jail, saying the crime was not pre-planned. The court, in the ruling last week, observed that the murder was over a "petty reason and not pre-planned" and Kamlya Waghmare cannot be held guilty under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)

Bhopal, February 20: The brutal murder of a senior journalist and his entire family on Saturday night in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria distict, over 450 km from here, has sent shockwaves across the State with fingers being pointed at the illegal coal mining mafia active in the region. Journalist Chandrika Rai (42), his wife Durga (40) and their two teenage children — son Jalaj (19) and daughter Nisha

New Delhi, February 19: A girl allegedly committed suicide after being raped by two people in northwest Delhi, police said on Saturday. The 15-year-old girl was accosted by the men when she was going to a relative's house along with a friend on Friday evening. The accused offered them a joyride on their bikes and picked them up from Prashant Vihar. They forced themselves on the girls on reaching a

Panaji, February 18: More than a dozen school children and their woman escort were feared drowned Saturday after a school bus carrying them drove straight into a river in Goa, police said. The incident took place when the brakes of the bus failed and it plunged into Calvi river, 30 km from here. Indian Navy divers have rushed to the spot, a police officer said. Police said they did not have the

Dubai, February 18: A policeman and two students allegedly kidnapped a juvenile and sodomised him after physically assaulting him in an isolated area, the Dubai Criminal Court heard. The accused are identified as FSR, 20, Somali, student, MYS 19, student, who does not hold identification documents, and AFA, 20, Emirati, policeman. The victim WIM, 11, Emirati, student, testified that on Friday

Hyderabad, February 18: In a desperate act to meet thedowry requirements ahead of her wedding, anMBA student along with her mother made a vain bid to rob a housewife of her gold chain at APIIC colony, Kushaiguda on Friday. Kushaiguda police said that at around 11.30 am the mother-daughter duo - Rama Devi and Sharada - entered the residence of Kalpana, a housewife, in APIIC colony. Clad in burqas

Jaipur, February 17: Five members of a family, including a child, died while five others have been admitted to a hospital in a critical condition after they consumed spurious tea in Baran on Thursday. What made the tea poisonous is being investigated as police said they are completely relying on the forensic report due to lack of any obvious evidence on the spot. According to the police, the

Beed (Maharashtra), February 17: A 25-year-old woman bit off a man's tongue when he tried to sexually assault her at her house in Javalgaon village in the district, police said today. Anita Pawar, who works as a labourer, was alone at her house in the village on Wednesday when the accused, identified as Dadarao Hare (35), tried to force himself on her, they said. In a bid to save herself from the