Crime and crash

Mangalore, December 27: City police have arrested three persons in connection with kidnap and rape of a teenage girl. The arrested were identified as Asif of Sakleshpur and his two friends Abdul Khader and Ashfak. Sources from Bajpe police station said police conducted search operation for a class-X student of Holy Family High school in Bajpe, followed by a missing complaint lodged by her mother

Bangalore, December 27: A young couple faced a harrowing time for over two hours on Sunday night as an 11-member gang ‘tortured and abused’ them inside a cemetery on Berlie Street in the Ashok Nagar police station limits. The police managed to arrest some members of the gang and register a case of ‘dacoity’, but the investigation into the incident is still on. The victim, a BCom student and a

Mumbai, December 26: Sawapnil Baliram Patole, a 25-year-old student from US who returned to India for Christmas vacations, was arrested on Saturday by Mumbai police as his name figured in the Mumbai police lookout notice. The immigration cell at the airport informed the Mumbai Cyber Investigating Cell, which arrested Patole in a two-year-old case where he was wanted for outraging the modesty of a

Mangalore, December 25: A middle aged women suddenly collapsed at a hotel at Kankanady in the city on Saturday. Although the woman was immediately rushed to a private hospital, the doctors pronounced here brought dead. The diseased was Suneetha (45) a resident of Kudkorigudde in the city. A case was registered at Mangalore East Police station.

Mangalore, December 25: Three miscreants, who entered a wrist watch showroom in city posing as customers on Saturday noon, decamped with three watches worth Rs 2.42 lakh. According to the case registered by Ronald Rebello, owner of the Titan watch show room, on MG Road, three men entered the show room posing as customers and asked for expensive watches. The miscreants slyly slipped three watches

Bangalore, December 25: A measly Rs. 20 and a girl seem to be the reasons for the brutal bludgeoning of a mechanic recently by his friend in a godown at Adapete in Nelamangala. Nelamangala Town police arrested Kaiser (20), a daily wage labourer, for the murder of Afroz Pasha (22), whose mutilated body was found wrapped in cloth on December 21. According to officials at the scene, Afroz Pasha was

Udupi, December 24: Sadashiva Gowda, a resident of Gundi near Eedu village, who had recently shifted to Kabinale village in Karkala taluk, has gone missing since December 19, even as rumours spread that he may have been abducted by suspected naxalites. However, the police say that Sadashiva Gowda is missing. Superintendent of Police Y.S. Ravi Kumar told The Hindu that the police continued to

Bangalore, December 24: Kiran used fake papers to gain money in order to clear heavy debts Basavanagudi police have arrested K V Kiran Kumar (29), an MNC bank employee, and his father K Vijay Kumar (54), for cheating bank customers to the tune of Rs 1.33 crore. According to police, Kiran misused his position as a relations manager to clear his father’s heavy debts. Police have recovered Rs 45 lakh

Dubai, December 23: Dubai authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle nearly two million fake dollar notes which were stuffed inside a large tea bag consignment that was sent by air from Kenya, newspapers reported on Thursday. The shipment was seized last month after customs authorities phoned the police and told them they had uncovered dollar notes inside tea bag boxes sent from the African

Karwar, December 23: A couple from Kumble in Udupi district committed suicide by laying in front of the running train at Madanageri railway station on Wednesday. Manohar Lokanath Alva (40) and his wife Chandrika Alva, who have a video game business in Mumbai, had suffered heavy losses. They have been married for three years, but do not have children. According to police, these could be the reasons