Crime and crash

Bangalore, December 20: The Lokayukta police conducted an early morning raid on the houses and office of Yelahanka MLA S?R Vishwanath on Monday. The police had registered a case on December 16 after the Special Lokayukta Court directed them to investigate allegations of cheating and acquiring notified land by V Shashidhar through a private complaint in the Special Lokayukta Court. The Lokayukta

Bangalore, December 19: Six people, suspected to be members of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, were on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Karnataka court for a terror attack at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science here in 2005 that killed a retired professor. Fast track court Judge VR Revankar awarded the punishment to Mohammed Riaz-ur-Rehman of Andhra Pradesh, and Afzar Pasha

Muscat, December 18 : An attempt to smuggle a large quantity of alcoholic beverages through the Wajaja border post was foiled by Royal Oman Police (ROP), according to a press release today. According to police, a truck driven by an Arab national was carrying concrete, iron and other construction related material. However, closer inspection by the Customs department at the border revealed 1250

Jeddah, December 18: An Arab expatriate was arrested here Thursday night after an alleged drunken rampage through Jeddah streets with a stolen truck. No one was injured, but the inebriated motorist smashed into a number of cars. The drunken driver collided with several vehicles on Al-Khair Bridge as he drove against the direction of traffic. Security patrols tried to intercept the vehicle and

Bangalore, December 18: A 23-year-old non-resident Indian (NRI) fell from his 14th floor flat at Mico Layout on Saturday morning. According to the police, the victim Pranav Lohit Gurudutt was residing with his mother at the newly constructed Lake View apartment. Pranav’s uncle Sreekantappa told the police that Pranav was undergoing treatment for depression. Pranav was born and brought up in the US

Bangalore, December 17: A school principal was on Friday arrested on the charge of sexually assaulting a sixth standard girl. Mohammed Imtiaz Pasha, 52, Principal of Royal English School, Pillanna Garden, Tannery Road, is the arrested. According to the Kadugondanahalli police, around noon, Pasha called the girl into his office and promised to promote her to seventh standard in spite of several

Mysore, December 17: The six-year-old school girl, who had been admitted for burns after falling into a piping hot sambar, succumbed at a hospital here on Friday. Apoorva B was a second standard student at the Government Higher Primary School in Katte Hunsur in HD?Kote taluk in the district. She was standing in a queue for ‘bisi oota’ at her school on December 14 at 12.45 pm, when the accident

Hiriyur, December 17: Seven persons were killed and 48 injured in a road accident between a private bus and a lorry near Yaraballi village in Hiriyur taluk in Chithradurga district on Friday morning. Among the seven, five died on the spot and the other two died at the hospital. The dead are - physical education teacher of National Academy School of Hiriyur, Shridhar (33) from Jadekunte village

Dubai, December 16: The Court of Appeal recently fined an Indian man Dh2,000 for posting private photographs of his wife on the social networking site, Facebook. The court also slapped a fine of Dh1,000 on him for consuming liquor and quashed the deportation order handed down by the Court of Misdemeanours. The Court of Misdemeanours had earlier dismissed the case after the defendant submitted a

Dubai, December 16: The Dubai Police have achieved a breakthrough in the Dh3.5-million jewellery heist that took place in the Naif area of Deira in July with the arrest of three Kosovar suspects. The trio was arrested when they returned to Dubai to take away the booty they had left buried in a graveyard near Baniyas Square. The police recovered the jewellery. The robbery happened on July 20 night