Crime and crash

New Delhi, Nov 20: The presumption of culpability against an accused in a dowry death case under the Evidence Act would be "activated" only when there is a proof that a deceased woman had been subjected to cruelty for demand of dowry, the Supreme Court has ruled. The provision to secure convictions in dowry death cases was inserted in the Evidence Act, which provides that instead of presumption of

New Delhi, Nov 20: A 32-year-old woman was raped in a moving train near Shahdara by three men who allegedly entered the ladies coach with the intention to rob the passengers, said the police. The incident took place on Thursday in Jan Nayak Express when it was on its way to Old Delhi railway station after being diverted from its usual route. The victim was alone in the coach when the three accused

Jaipur, Nov 20: Ahead of festive season, the crime branch of Jaipur police commissionerate on Tuesday busted a racket involved in circulation of counterfeit currency notes. Acting on a tip off by crime branch, the Amber police in the city have arrested four persons, including three from Malda (West Bengal) and seized Rs 2,97,500. A team of Jaipur police is camping in Malda to arrest another member

South Carolina, Nov 19: 61-year-old James Robert McClurkin from South Carolina man who served 39 years in prison for a homicide that he says he didn't commit has been freed from prison as a parolee. The Herald of Rock Hill reports that he left Broad River Prison on Thursday . Police and attorneys now say he didn't kill 74-year-old Claude Killian of Chester in August 1973. McClurkin and Ray Charles

Sagar, Nov 19: Police arrested one person in Basata village in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district for beheading his two minor sons, and trying to kill his wife and another son. Gyan Singh, assistant sub-inspector of Bamitha police station in Chhatarpur district told HT that at around 10 pm, one Kalicharan Kushwaha, a marginal farmer, entered the bed room with an axe, and attacked his wife and

New Delhi, Nov 17: A paediatrician was detained for allegedly possessing around Rs 70 lakh in Rs 100 denominations in central Delhi's Paharganj, police said. The doctor, identified as Nallal, was allegedly putting bundles of cash in his car when a passerby noticed him and made a PCR call, said a police officer. Nallal was detained and it was found that he was carrying Rs 69,86,000 in Rs 100

New Delhi, Nov 17: A 48-year-old man died today allegedly after he suffered heart attack while standing in line for over eight hours to exchange now-defunct notes for new ones even as banks and ATMs continued to be crowded by hassled Delhiites eight days after the demonetisation move. Saud Ur Rehman, a resident of Old Delhi, became unwell while standing at a queue outside a bank in Lal Kuan and

Rewa/Bhopal, Nov 16: Police in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh are contemplating a DNA test to get to the bottom of a case after 16-year-old girl’s family lodged a complaint alleging she was raped by a 12-year-old relative which has left her pregnant. The medical examination of the girl on November 12 revealed that the Class IX dropout was raped. But the medical tests of the accused eighth

New Delhi, Nov 14: With each passing day, people seem to be resorting to extreme measures to get their hands on new currency notes. A woman waiting in line at an ATM in Mayur Vihar Phase 3 in New Delhi took off her shirt to protest against the shortage triggered by the ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes , leaving bystanders stunned. The woman was taken to Ghazipur Police Station after women personnel

Pune/Aurangabad, Nov 14: A Pune based software engineer died in a road accident early Saturday morning, hours after he allegedly murdered his divorced wife at her father's residence in Aurangabad. Manoj Madhukar Garule (35), a resident of Sangvi, near Jagtap chowk, Pune, fled in his car after stabbing his ex-wife, Ashwini, in front of their eight-year-old daughter on Friday evening, the Aurangabad