Crime and crash

Bangalore, Jan 10: The City police have cracked the murder case of real estate agent Shankar, 38, who was hacked to death in his office, Sinchana Enterprises near Vidyapeeta Circle, by a gang of three on December 29. The police have arrested the victim’s wife Bhagyalakshmi, her lover Cheluvaraju and four others for the murder. A gang of three masked men had hacked Shankar to death. One of the boys

Kanker district, Jan 7: In Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, the police has arrested a school teacher and a watchman for allegedly molesting 11 of the 75 students of a government ashram in Naharpur for over a year. Medical reports have confirmed that four of the 11 girls were raped. "We got a complaint about molestation. A teacher and watchman harassed her... We are investigating," said CD Tondon

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 6: The Kerala police which probed the murder of a ‘diamond merchant’ in the capital city, have arrested five youths including three engineering students, according to an official. The arrested were identified as Jitesh, Ajeesh, Rakhil, Rakesh and Joseph, all hailing from different parts of Kerala. The three engineering students were studying in Bangalore. Speaking to

Bangalore, Jan 2: Speeding trains mowed down two young people - a medico and a software engineer - trying to cross the rail track in the absence of a footbridge at the Whitefield railway station, setting off a public protest and disruption of train services on Wednesday. The accidents occurred within hours of each other on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. On Tuesday night, 20-year-old Vini

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3: The state hi-tech crime inquiry cell has sent a request to Facebook to provide details of the account from which the photograph of a Kerala girl was uploaded claiming that she was Nirbhaya. The cell has registered a case on the basis of an email complaint it received on Tuesday from a person who claimed to be an acquaintance of the girl shown in the photograph. Cell

Bangalore, Jan 2: Three MBBS students from Karnataka were debarred from appearing in the ongoing final year examination on charges of copying with the help of hi-tech digital gadgets, a top official of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) said today. The students, appearing for the examination in Bijapur three days ago, were caught copying using a customised China-made shirt in which

New Delhi, Jan 2: Calling the Delhi gang-rape "the worst in the world", police officers are calling for urgent amendments in the archaic Indian Penal Code (IPC) to provide justice to women in distress. Even police officers who have over the decades seen countless bodies and battered humans are unable to control their emotions as they talk about the savagery committed Dec 16 on the victim who

Bangalore, December 30: A real-estate businessman was brutally attacked and stabbed to death in his office near Vidyapeetha Circle on Saturday afternoon. The dead has been identified as Shankar, 46, a resident of Hosakere Halli. The incident happened at about 12:30 pm when Shankar was in his office as usual. Three men, wearing helmets, barged into the office and assaulted Shankar. “One of them

Gulbarga, December 30: In yet another rape case reported from Karnataka, a youth was arrested on charges of abducting and raping a minor girl. The incident of rape has come to light after 10-days following the girl returning home two days ago, police said. The accused Sabanna Nalappa Poojary (24), who is already married, kidnapped the 15-year-old girl from a agriculture field on December 19 in

New Delhi, December 30: Even as angry protest over the horrific gang-rape of a woman in Delhi rages, another girl has been molested in the national capital. The girl was molested by an off-duty conductor in a moving DTC cluster bus on Saturday night at Tansen Marg. The girl was spotted crying on the bus by cops, when the driver stopped at a police post to enquire about the way to Lajpat Nagar. The