Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Dec 24: A 20-year-old student from a noted women's college in Bengaluru started receiving calls from strangers on her mobile phone seeking sexual gratification. After initially ignoring the calls as pranks, she was shocked when an anonymous person sent her nude image on her phone through a messaging application called WhatsApp. It did not take her much time to realise that her nude

Bihar, Dec 15: A 65-year-old woman allegedly committed 'sati' by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband in a village in Bihar's Saharsa district. Saharsa Superintendent of Police Pankaj Sinha said it happened at Parminia village under Kahra block in the district, around 250 km from the state capital, and the deceased woman has been identified Dahwa Devi. "Her husband Charitra Yadav (70) had

New Delhi, Dec 10: One person was killed and two others seriously injured after a speeding Audi SUV hit a dumper truck in central Delhi's Barakhambha Road late last night. Such was the force of the impact that the front end of the car was completely crushed. There were four people inside the Audi, who were returning home after attending a wedding. It took the police a half an hour to pull the

Hosapete (Ballari dist), Dec 8: A Class 2 girl was reportedly raped by four minor boys, aged between 10 years and 14 years, at a desolate place near SC?Colony here on Saturday night. Hosapete police said that the nine-year-old girl, a resident of Myasakeri, was taken to the SC Colony by the boys, all residents of?Talavaarakeri, on the pretext of playing with her. However, they raped the girl

Hapur, Dec 1: A young man belonging to the Scheduled Castes and his Muslim wife were hacked to death in broad daylight in a village of Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday - allegedly by the woman's brother - for defying the diktat of the panchayat and staying married. Sonu, a 22-year-old craftsman, and Danishta Begum, 21, had got married four months ago. The couple was staying together at his house

Hyderabad, Nov 30: A BCom second year student was allegedly beaten to death by his senior at Pragathi Mahavidyalaya, Koti, on Saturday, when he tried to stop him from harassing a girl student. The accused, Satish Kodkar, 22, got enraged, when the victim, K.S. Harshavardhan Rao, 19, asked him not to tease girls from his class. Satish punched the victim twice, who fell on the ground after hitting

New Delhi, Nov 28: A 27-year-old software engineer committed suicide by jumping off an under-construction building in Bangalore on Thursday. The deceased, Rajesh Choudhary, a resident of Ramamurthy Nagar was working with Cognizant, an IT company in the city. Quoting Choudhary's relatives, police said that Rajesh had been depressed for some time and had shown suicidal tendencies in the past too

Bengaluru, Nov 24: A man, who decided to make a fast buck using his son as a bait, was arrested by the Sanjayanagar police on Monday. Rajesh Karvi, 30, an executive with an advertisement agency, allegedly posed as a journalist and tried to extort money from a private school management claiming that his son was sexually abused at the institution. A resident of Ramamandira Road, Kodigehalli Main

Bangalore, Nov 21: For the 'crime' of discovering her father in bed with her aunt, 16-year-old Nasreen had to pay an inexplicable price. She was tortured for over a year by her own father who also allegedly sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions, and even allowed their housemaid's brother to participate in the heinous crime. Acid attacks It was only discovered later that the father had an

New Delhi, Nov 20: The body of a 13-year-old son of an east Delhi jeweller was found near a drain in Geeta Colony on Wednesday morning, a day after the boy was abducted while walking home from school and the family received a ransom demand of Rs 1 crore. The boy, Utkarsh, was an eighth standard student of Vivekanand School in Anand Vihar. He was smothered and then strangled, police said. Utkarsh