CRIME AND CRASH

Faridabad, Aug 14: Faridabad DCP Vikram Kapoor allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with a service revolver at his residence on Wednesday, police said. Based on a suicide note recovered from Kapoor's house, two people, including Bhopani police station SHO Abdul Shahid, were detained, police sources said. Details of the suicide note were not immediately available but according to the

Gonda, Aug 11: In a gruesome incident, a woman was tied to a tree and beaten up mercilessly by villagers here on Saturday over allegations of child-lifting. According to the reports received, the incident took place in Raheli village under Nawabganj police station area of the district on Saturday. The villagers caught hold of the woman on the suspicion that she was a child lifter and beat her up

New Delhi, Aug 10: The Delhi Police have booked former BJP MLA Manoj Shokeen for allegedly raping and threatening his daughter-in-law at gun point on the intervening night of December 31, 2018 and January 1 this year, said by police on Saturday. The victim approached the police on Thursday following which an FIR was registered against the Shokeen, the former two-time MLA from Nangloi Assembly seat

Muzaffarnagar, Aug 7: A murder accused absconding for 16 years was arrested after a long hunt by the special task force in the district, police said on Wednesday. The accused, Devendra was arrested on Tuesday for the involvement in the murder of eight people in 2003, police said. In 2003, Devendra and three other men had killed eight people over an old enmity at Butrada village under Babri police

Madikeri, Aug 7: The death of a man on Monday evening soon after he consumed ‘thirtha’ (holy water) — which an unidentified person had couriered him — at his house in Tannirhalla in Somwarpet taluk has led to speculations. K Suresh, a cook working at a hotel near the private bus stand in Somwarpet, is said to have received the courier, sent to him and addressed to his workplace, on Sunday morning

New Delhi: At least six people died and 10 injured when a massive fire broke out in a multi-storey building in Delhi's Zakir Nagar in the early hours of Tuesday. Eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was doused off. The injured have been shifted to the hospital for treatment. Around seven cars and eight motorcycles were gutted in the blaze. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal

Guwahati, Aug 4: A local court on Saturday gave death sentence to a man for burning alive fellow college student Shweta Agarwal in 2017. The fast-track court of Kamrup also awarded life term to his mother and sister for murder, tampering of evidence and criminal conspiracy. Sessions Judge Aparesh Chackraborty had convicted Govind Singhal, his mother Kamala Devi and sister Bhawani on July 30 for

Mumbai, Aug 3: Irked by frequent crying of his one-year-old daughter, an alcoholic allegedly strangulated her to death in Latur district of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The accused, Shivaji Lale strangulated the toddler to death inside a room in his house in Nilanga taluka of the district, about 475 km from Mumbai, on Thursday night, an official said. Lale, who used to run a hotel in the

Bulandshahr, Aug 3: In a scene, which could be straight out a movie, a wanted criminal who had a Rs 10,000 bounty on his head walked into a police station here on Thursday and surrendered on his own. Much to the surprise of police who had launched a search for him, the criminal, Anil walked into the police station here holding a placard that read, "I have come to the police station on my own, to

Raebareli, Jul 29: Two aunts of Unnao rape victim succumbed to their injuries while the victim and her lawyer were critically injured when their car collided with a truck on Sunday. "Victim, her aunts, and her lawyer were injured in the accident. The rape victim's aunts succumbed to injuries while the victim and her lawyer are in a critical condition," advocate Vimal Kumar Yadav, junior of