Crime and crash

New Delhi, Oct 25: Two days after CBI arrested senior railway board official Ravi Mohan Sharma for allegedly taking bribe for illegally adding coaches in special trains to benefit a private tour operator, agency sleuths seized a large amount of cash, several laptops and expensive mobile phones from his house. Agency sources said Sharma had hidden a large amount of cash in the drain pipes of his

New Delhi, Oct 18: A 24-year-old call centre executive from Mizoram was found dead at her flat in south Delhi's Munirka Village on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Juliet Zonunmawi from Aizawl. Juliet's boyfriend Virender Singh, who was visiting her on Thursday, and her landlady took her to Safdarjung Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival. Her body had several injuries

Vadodara, Oct 15: This childless couple adopted her when she was just two months old. But the girl, now 16, is in police custody for allegedly killing her foster parents in cold blood. On Tuesday, police arrested the girl with her 22-year-old boyfriend, Sapan Purani, for murdering Shrihari Vinod, 63, and his wife Sneha, 60. Shockingly, the couple was killed on August 3 and the murder came to light

New Delhi, Sep 26: In yet another incident of child abuse reported from a playschool, a three-year-old girl was sexually assaulted inside her school premises in Hari Nagar area of west Delhi. This is the second case of child abuse to be reported from the national capital in as many days. On Thursday, it was reported that a two-and-a-half-year-old child was being repeatedly sexually abused at a

Bangalore, Sep 21: A 30-year-old woman used a 'modest teacher' avatar to befriend men and made away with valuables once she won their trust. However, her luck ran out when an executive from Andhra went to police. Renuka, alias Ranjini, from Bhadravathi, was arrested on Thursday. In one case, she befriended Sanjeeva Reddy, senior executive of an industrial unit, when she went to AP on a pilgrimage

Bangalore, Sep 20: A 28-year-old man was awarded life term for murdering a 31-year-old homemaker, who had allegedly blackmailed him for sex. Judge Vishwanath V Angadi of the Principal City Civil and Sessions Court also slapped a fine of `10,000 on Lalan alias Lalan Kumar. Lalan appealed to the court to spare him from a life term as he was still a student and had got married while out on bail

Mysore, Sep 17: A woman and her daughter in-law were killed when a decades-old peepal tree came down crashing on Tuesday. Two other women and a boy escaped with injuries. They were all sitting in a temple adjacent to the Mysore Palace wall. Susheelamma, accompanied by her daughter-in-law, Shylaja, residents of Sunnadakeri, went to Aramane Kote Maramma temple to help her priest-husband Siddaraju

Bangalore, Sep 16: A man killed his wife and five-year-old physically-challenged son by slitting their throat at his house in Rajajinagar, on Monday afternoon. Rushing to Rajajinagar Police Station, Kumar Nayak, 30, a dressmaker at Bhashyam Circle, confessed he had murdered his wife Manjula Bai, 26, suspecting her fidelity, and their son Harshith, 5. Fortuitously, his three-year-old son, Chandan

Mumbai, Sep 13: NCP MLA Laxmanrao Dhobale has been booked on rape charge after a 42-year-old woman accused him of repeatedly sexually abusing her, police said today. The legislator from Solapur has been booked under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) by the Borivali police, said Deputy police commissioner Balsingh Rajput. The

Bangalore, Sep 11: The Bangalore Police have arrested the managing director of a Dutch non-profit educational organisation on the charge of raping, cheating and criminally intimidating a 33-year-old woman from Gurgaon. The International Airport police on Wednesday arrested Peter de Bruijn, 43, who lives at Sadarahalli near the airport. Bruijn is the managing director of Nuffic Neso India—an