Crime and crash

Bangalore, December 14: A six-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually abused by her caretaker has slipped into severe depression. The girl, who was brought to a Banashankari hospital on Monday by her alleged abuser, was shifted to Nimhans on Thursday. "The girl is in deep shock. Her mother, who met her on Thursday morning, cried on seeing the bite marks on her child's body. This further depressed

Dubai, December 11: A tragic accident on Sunday evening claimed two lives and injured six others in Al Warqa area of Dubai. The accident that occurred in a sandy area killed two Emirati youths – a male and a female –who were sticking their heads over the roof hatch of their car when it flipped over. Major-General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen said the car carrying eight people turned turtle at about 7

Kolkata, December 8: Enraged over his sister's extra-marital affair, a man allegedly killed her with a sword and carried her severed head to a police station in West Bengal on Friday. Mehtab Hussain walked into the Nadial police station in South 24 Parganas district with the victim's head. "Hussain told our stunned colleagues that he killed his sister because she was having an extra-marital affair

Bangalore, December 7: In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What is even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her. She has now filed two FIRs, one against a motorcycle-rider

New Delhi, December 5: Six young men, including three law students from Jamia Milia Islamia University, allegedly kept a 16-year-old girl by force in a Defence Colony house in south Delhi, and raped her repeatedly for 10-12 days. Four of them have been arrested while two are on the run. The victim, a class XI student, had in September run away from her parents' home in Delhi and had been living

Bangalore, December 4: Karnataka Women’s Commission (KWC) has revealed that around 50 per cent of girls in the age group of12 to 30, who go missing from north Karnataka districts, remain untraced. However, nearly 85 per cent of girls missing from south Karnataka districts are traced. Many of the missing girls from north Karnataka are later found in red light areas of Mumbai and other bigger cities

Bangalore, December 1: Three people were killed and two sustained grievous injuries after their car rammed a road median, hit the overbridge pillar and fell in the path of a speeding goods vehicle near Kengeri Thursday midnight. The dead have been identified as Sachin Shetty, 27, Devaraj, 27, and Amaan, 21.?The injured, Syed Saleem, 18, and Syed Habeeb, 21, are battling for their life at a private

Koppal, November 30: Brothers of the alleged rape victim, Rashmi (name changed), who committed suicide at Hyathi village in Koppal taluk, have asserted that their sister was not subjected to gang rape. Speaking with mediapersons here on Thursday, Manjunath Doli and Maruthi Doli clarified that their sister was not gang-raped, as reported. And her decision to end life was not due to the alleged

Bangalore, November 29: A case of sexual harassment has been reported in the premier Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore whose chief administrative officer is being alleged to have sexually exploited a woman doctor over the past two years. A group of women rights activist held a protest against the same. Women rights activists say that the IIM administrative should have taken action

Jodhpur, November 28: A woman Air Force officer, Squadron Leader Anandita Dasgupta, has allegedly committed suicide in Jodhpur. She was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home. The 29-year-old officer was commissioned into the Air Force six years ago. Her husband is a pilot in the Air Force. "She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the wee hours today. The body has been shifted to