Crime and crash

Haryana, Aug 26: In a shocking and shameful incident, a couple was beaten to death and two of their relatives, including a woman and a minor, allegedly gangraped In Haryana’s Mewat, after being held hostage by five armed robbers. According to reports, the incident occurred on Wednesday night, in Dhingeri village of Tauroo in Mewat, 45 kilometers from Gurgaon. The Haryana Police is examining the

Hathras, Aug 26: A 26-year-old woman from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, was found dead in her house on Thursday, just days after she recorded a video claiming that her father and brother wanted to kill her. “My family want to kill me, I want to marry Imran, but my family is taking me away to our village. My father and my brother want to kill me,” says the woman named Soni in the video. The footage seems

Gurgaon/Ambala, Aug 25: A minor girl died allegedly while waiting in a queue at a civil hospital in Gurgaon, prompting the Haryana government to relieve a doctor of his charge and terminating the services of a staff member for negligence of duty. The incident occurred on Monday when the 11-year-old girl, suffering from a kidney-related problem, reached the hospital in a critical condition with her

New Delhi, Aug 24: A three-year-old boy was crushed to death by his school van moments after he was dropped near his home in North Delhi’s Civil Lines on Tuesday afternoon. The police said the boy, Aviral from the Railway Colony, was walking behind the van that was being reversed when its rear tyre crushed him, killing him on the spot. Residents of the area pulled out the driver, 20-year-old Rahul

New Delhi, Aug 23: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three youths in east Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar late Sunday night. The victim was sleeping with her parents outside their hut when the youths allegedly carried her away to a nearby forested area. There, they took turns to rape her, said the police. They also allegedly threatened to kill her if she shouted. Panic However

Vijayawada (AP), Aug 22: Ten persons were killed and 19 others injured when their bus fell into a canal at Nayakangudem in Khammam district of Telangana in the wee hours today, police said. Besides, three persons died in Andhra Pradesh when their car met with an accident in Chittoor district early this morning when they were returning from the Krishna Pushkaram festival, they said. The driver of

New Delhi, Aug 22: A Delhi court today awarded death penalty to two convicts and life term to another for robbing and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009, observing that it was a "brutal" and "cold blooded murder". "To be hanged by neck till death," Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav said, while awarding death to convicts Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla. The judge also observed that

Jodhpur, Aug 21: A seven-year-old girl, who was found hanging at her home in Jodhpur's Basni area on the Independence day, had committed suicide after being raped by a minor living in the same house, police said today. The revelation came after police received the post-mortem report of the girl which stated that the girl had been raped. Swinging into action after receiving the report, police

Ankara, Aug 21: Hande Kader, 22-year-old transgender woman, was reportedly raped and set on fire last week in Turkey. Kader, a sex worker and an activist for the rights of LGBT community, was found dead in Istanbul on August 12. Since her death, LGBT rights campaigners have been tweeting with the hashtag #HandeKadereSesVer – which means ‘Make some noise for Hande Kader’. She was a symbolic figure

Bengaluru, Aug 20: A 46-year-old cardiac patient, who was being transported from Ballari to Jayadeva Hospital for surgery, died when the ambulance hit a private bus near the toll booth in Peenya on National Highway 4. The accident occurred around 6.am. on Friday. The ambulance was behind the bus. It had crossed the toll gate, but rammed into the bus that had stopped abruptly. According to the