Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Dec 12: A 28-year-old man, who was reported missing since Friday, was found murdered at Saraswathipuram in Vijayanagar on Sunday. The victim Nanjundaswamy of Kaveripura in Kamakshipalya was working at the e-commerce marketplace Flipkart’s Byatarayanapura branch office as a delivery staff, the police said. He left his office for home around 2.30 pm on Friday. As he did not go home, his

New Delhi, Dec 11: A love triangle, an insatiable greed for money, and a possible sex racket merged to make a compelling motive in the murder of two women, whose mutilated corpses were found in south Delhi’s Munirka last month. Delhi police said on Saturday they arrested a Nepalese man and a woman from Meghalaya for the gruesome murders and cracked the mystery of the corpses found within 100

Baghpat, Dec 10; A Samajwadi Party youth wing leader has on Saturday booked for allegedly issuing threats against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in a video which has gone viral on the social media. An FIR has been filed against Tarun Dev Yadav under IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 106 (Right of private defence against deadly assault) and

New Delhi, Dec 9: A 37-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh reportedly chopped off his penis after his wife refused to have sex with him. The bizarre incident occurred earlier this week when Ghasi Ram returned home drunk and asked his wife to have sex with him. When she refused, he chopped off his penis in a fit of rage. Ram claimed that his wife, Manjhri Devi, has been denying him sex for the last

Hyderabad, Dec 9: One person died even as at least 10-12 people are feared trappedunder the debris of a multi-storey building that collapsed at IT hub Nanakaramgudalate on Thursday night. One body has been found under the debris, senior Cyberabad police officials, who reached the location to carry out the rescue mission, said. Two persons, including a child, were rescued from the collapsed

Ahmedabad, Dec 8: A 19-year-old Dalit girl has alleged that she was raped by a BJP leader’s son at a hotel on the pretext of marriage in Surendranagar district, police said. The BJP leader is the president of Patdi taluka unit of the party, deputy superintendent of police M R Sharma said. The girl filed a complaint at Patdi police station alleging that 23-year-old Bittu Patel took her to a hotel

Dec 8: A 15-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her room at her house in Sahibabad village on Wednesday afternoon. The body was found by the girl’s mother on Wednesday at around 2pm. According to the police, the mother of the girl, who works in a factory in sector 62, Noida, came home at around 2 pm. The girl, who was a student of class 8 in a

New York, Dec 6: An Indian-origin man was charged with murdering his wife here on Monday after a street argument, according to a city public prosecutor. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said that Prem Rampersaud, 50, who was visiting the city from Guyana, met his wife, Rajwantie Baldeo, 46, after she finished work at a restaurant around midnight and following an argument killed her by

Aligarh, Dec 5: Days after setting herself ablaze here after allegedly failing to exchange old notes, a 45-year-old daily wage labourer died at a hospital in New Delhi. Razia passed away on Sunday. Her family told mediapersons that she immolated herself on the evening of November 20 after "failing to exchange six notes of Rs 500 despite attempting to do so at different branches of banks in the old

Bathinda, Dec 5: A 25-year-old pregnant dancer was shot dead in a celebratory firingduring a marriage ceremony in Maur Mandi town on Saturday. The incident was filmed using a mobile camera. The female dancer has been identified as Kulwinder Kaur. In the video, she can be seen getting shot in her stomach, and falling immediately on the stage. The Bathinda police have booked a man, Billa, for murder