Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Jun 22: An unidentified man bludgeoned a 69-year-old man to death and injured a 12-year-old boy when they resisted his bid to barge into their houses in Yelahanka New Town, in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The deceased, Ananta Ramaiah, was a retired private company employee. The thief had attempted to enter an independent house in the Vth sector before targeting Ananta's house, police said

Kasargod (Kerala), Jun 21: Twenty-three persons, who allegedly celebrated Pakistan's victory over India in the Champions Trophy cricket final, have been booked on various charges including rioting and unlawful assembly, police said today. Cases have been registered against Razaq, Masood, Siraj and 20 others of Kumbadaje panchayat on a complaint from a local BJP leader Rajesh Shetty yesterday, they

New Delhi, Jun 20: A woman was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car for hours in Gurgaon near Delhi last night before being dumped near a hospital in Greater Noida, around 70 km away, police said. The woman, a resident of Gurgaon, told the police that she was forcibly pulled into a Maruti Swift by some men at Sohna Road around 8.30 pm who then took turns to rape her before dumped her. No case has

Bengaluru, Jun 18: A traffic constable has filed a complaint, claiming that a woman on a two-wheeler attacked him when he tried to stop her from rushing towards AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi's convoy last week. Venkatesh R G, 26, from KG Halli traffic police station, said that he was manning traffic near the Cunningham Road-Queen's Road junction on June 12 when the incident occurred. Rahul's

Jaipur, Jun 17: A 44 year old man social worker was reportedly beaten to death by muncipality employees in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan as he tried to stop them from taking photographs of Muslim women who had come out of their homes and were relieving themselves in open. The incident took place on Friday morning. The women were defecating in open as they had no toilets in their homes. The

Hyderabad, Jun 16: A sub-inspector from Kukunoorpally police station allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in his home in Siddipet, just a day after a 28-year-old woman employee of a photo studio ended her life. While relatives of sub-inspector P. Prabhakar Reddy alleged that he committed suicide due to harassment from his seniors, police officials say that

Ghaziabad, Jun 13: Sometime over the weekend, burglars drilled a two-foot hole in the wall of the strongroom of Punjab National Bank's Modinagar branch, entered through the opening they had made, and emptied out 30 lockers. Nobody really knows the exact value of what they stole, but it could easily run into crores. The branch is located on NH-58 and is adjacent to an L shaped plot on which sits an

Lakhimpur Kheri, Jun 12: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly beheaded his 50-year-old wife in a fit of rage following an argument today, the police said. The 52-year-old man then walked to a nearby police outpost, carrying the severed head of his wife in his hands, and surrendered, officials said. According to the police, the victim Usha Devi and her husband Ram Sewak had an argument over a

Noida, Jun 12: The body of a missing 12-year-old boy was found bundled and buried in a pit inside his neighbour’s house at Shaheed Nagar in Delhi-Ghaziabad border, police said on Saturday. The Ghaziabad Police have recovered the body of the victim, Sameer, from the pit. Sameer went missing on the evening of June 5. In the morning the same day, the boy had an altercation with the neighbour’s

New Delhi, Jun 11: In over 95 per cent of rape cases in the national capital, the victim and the accused are known to each other, according to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik. The city's top police officer also said the issue of women safety cannot be addressed by the Delhi Police alone but requires larger participation from various government departments. According to statistics of the