Crime and crash

Kollam, Nov 28: A two-wheeler rider was hospitalised and suffered serious injuries after a police officer threw a lathi at him during a vehicle inspection at Kaddakal here on Thursday. The rider apparently lost control of the bike and hit another vehicle, police said adding that an inquiry has been ordered into the incident. The man identified as Siddique has been admitted to Thiruvananthapuram

Muzzafarnagar, Nov 24: A 24-year-old college student was allegedly abducted and raped in a moving car by a 26-year-old man with the act also being filmed by his friends in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Sunday. New Mandi station house officer Sanjiv Kumar said the victim, who is a BSc student, was heading to college from her house on Saturday morning when she was waylaid on

Kolkata, Nov 21: Two Turkish nationals arrested on the charge of withdrawing lakhs of rupees from ATMs in Tripura using cloning devices, had furnished fake documents to take a flat on rent at Belgharia near here around six months ago, police said. They were suspected to have installed skimming devices in automated teller machines of the State Bank of India in Tripura to clone debit cards and had

Mumbai, Nov 19: A 40-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her 23-year-old daughter as she was upset with her over her affair, police said on Monday. The woman, P Waghela 40, strangled her daughter, Nirmala Ashok Waghela, with a dupatta (stole) on Sunday at 9 pm at their residence in Pydhonie, the police added. According to the police, the accused did not approve of her daughter's

Rewa, Nov 17: A gang of five thieves struck at the residence of a district court judge in Rewa and chopped off four sandalwood trees from the premises before decamping with the logs, police said on Saturday. The incident took place during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, police said, adding that the thieves cut the trees after threatening the judge’s police guard at gunpoint. The

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 12: In a gruesome incident of cruelty, a pregnant cat was hung to death in front of a house here, following which a case was registered, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Sunday at a house in nearby Palkulangara which was being used as a recreation club by some people for consuming liqour and playing cards. On the basis of a complaint filed by Parvathy Mohan

Gurugram, Nov 11: A 24-year old woman, who came here for an examination, was allegedly sexually assaulted by her cousin in a hotel here, a police official said on Sunday. The incident occurred on September 22 but was only reported to police on Saturday when the victim, a resident of Mahendragarh, filed a complaint in her local police station. "Following the zero FIR with other sections registered

Balodabazar, Nov 8: Seven government school teachers were arrested for allegedly molesting two Class 9 students in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar district, police said on Friday. The Kasdol police on Thursday arrested Devendra Khunte (38), Rameshwar Prasad Sahu (44), Rupnarayan Sahu (36), Mahesh Kumar Verma (37), Dinesh Kumar Sahu (38), Chadan Das Baghel (39) and Lalram Bervansh, all teachers at

Palanpur, Nov 7: In a shocking incident, two blind teachers - one of them 62-year-old - have been accused of raping a 15-year-old blind girl several times for nearly four months in a school run by a private trust in Gujarat’s temple town Ambaji. The teachers were booked after the girl narrated her ordeal to her aunt when she had gone to her native Premnagar village of Patan district's Radhanpur

New Delhi, Nov 6: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sexual harassment case against former Union Minister Chinmayanand and the extortion case against the alleged victim, a law student, on Wednesday, filed charge sheets in both the cases. After a two-month-long investigation, the SIT filed the 20-page charge sheets in both the cases. The case diary runs into 4,700 pages. The SIT also