Crime and crash

Bijapur, Nov 17: The police arrested a person who has been accused of killing his father after allegedly being denied money to purchase a car. The police arrested Ajeeth Biradar on the charges of killing his father Shivangouda Biradar, an advocate residing at Raghavendra colony here. The police said the accused Ajeeth was pestering his father for money ostensibly to buy a car, but his father

Bangalore, Nov 8: It was a well-hatched plan. To pass off a murder as a natural death. However, it went awry, thanks to a neighbouris intervention. A woman who tried to strangle her husband to death with her lover's help landed in police net on Wednesday. The victim, D Dayanandaswamy, 55, died in hospital. The accused Ratnamma Dayanandaswamy, 33, and lover Chennabasava, 27, who is her husband's

Bangalore, Oct 15: A 19-year-old engineering student was killed after the bike she was riding pillion collided head on with another motorcycle at Neeleri Railway Cross, Bellary Road, near Devanahalli on Monday afternoon. Sneha Prabhakar, a resident of HSR Layout and second year student of a private engineering college in Yelahanka, was riding pillion on the bike of her classmate, Manu, when the

Faizabad, Oct 11: A man axed his nine-month-old son to death to please Goddess Durga in Barabanki. Rajkumar Chaurasia aka Hemant, a resident of Narain Purva village under Ramnagar police station, killed his son in front of an idol of Goddess Durga in a temple built in his house on Wednesday. Police said Rajkumar bathed his son and took him for a puja in a Durga temple near his house. After

Bangalore, Oct 7: Parents of a 11-year-old-girl, Chandini, who died at a private polyclinic in Annasandrapalya on Saturday night, have alleged that their daughter was the victim of medical negligence. Babu, the father of the deceased girl, said that his daughter had suffered an accidental fall two years ago. She was treated at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health for serious head injuries

Nagpur, Oct 6: "He (Sudhakar Karadmare) had been harassing me and I just could not tolerate it any more. I used to feel threatened as he kept information about me," said Pranali Bhoyar, 18, while being taken for medical examination at Government Medical College and Hospital after her arrest on Friday for murdering Karadmare, a 58-year-old retired engineer from irrigation department in Gadchiroli

Gundlupet (Chamarajanagar dist), Oct 4: Tension prevailed at Bheemanabeedu village in the taluk, following a clash between members of two groups. Police had to fire teargas shells in the air to bring the situation under control. A total of 34 people have been arrested over the incident. It all started when Nagamallu, 25, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste abused Madhusudan, 18, who belongs to the

Mysore, Oct 2: Sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and volunteers of Odanadi Seva Samsthe raided a resort on the outskirts of Gundlupet town in?Chamarajanagar district on Tuesday. Nine women, six from Bangladesh and three from Maharashtra, including a Marathi TV and film actress, were rescued. A source said that CID teams from Bangalore and Mysore led by DySP Kolhapur raided

Mumbai, Sep 29: The death toll in the Mazgaon building collapse has risen to 61 while 32 others are injured. As rescuers race against time to find survivors under the debris, the real picture of the tragedy is unfolding as families cope to struggle with the loss. The human tragedy of the collapse is unbearable for many. Among those who have died is 30-year-old journalist Yogesh Anant Pawar, who

Lucknow, Sep 25: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly asked to strip in front of cops at a police station in Kushinagar district of eastern Uttar Pradesh to convince them that her allegations of rape were genuine and not concocted. This happened after the initial attempts of the girl's father to get the complaint registered proved futile after he failed to pay Rs 50,000 to the police-the price they