Crime and crash

Beed (Maharashtra), October 2: A 27-year-old woman from Maharashtra’s Beed district, infamous for its high incidence of female foeticide, was allegedly strangulated to death by her in-laws for giving birth to a girl for the third time, the police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday night around 11 p.m. in Malikpura area of Parli tehsil following a quarrel among them, they said

Chennai, October 2: A gang of around 20 men killed a businessman-film producer by hurling country-made bombs and Molotov cocktails at his car and hacking him with knives and cleavers in full public view near Sriperumbudur, on Monday morning. Police said the assailants attacked 35-year-old P P G Kumaran in front of the Sriperumbudur town panchayat office. Kumaran, producer of the recent Tamil film

Mysore, October 1: Sameera, the teenager who was chained for eight months allegedly by her father, got married to her lover Masuddin here on Sunday. Sameera's father Afsar Pashahad allegedly kept his teen daughter chained at their Sathyanagar house here for the past eight months. The boy, who was in love with her, informed the police. The police raided the house and arrested Afsar. He was released

Sonepat, September 29: A class 11 student was gangraped in Gohana near Sonepat in Haryana by four men. Three accused have been arrested and a case has been registered. According to police, the girl was raped in a busy market area on Thursday afternoon but her family filed the complaint only on Friday. This is the third such incident in the past fortnight. Earlier this week, three men barged into a

Dubai, September 28: Preliminary investigation into the death of an Indian woman in a residential building located at Rolla Road in Bur Dubai on Wednesday points to murder-cum- robbery. The body of 36-year-old M.S. from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu was found when her husband, alerted by one of her woman friends staying in the building after she did not turn up to receive her son from the

New Delhi, September 28: In yet another case of rape being filmed to blackmail the victim, a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a driver in Delhi while his friend recorded the crime on a mobile phone and circulated the MMS. The incident took place in east Delhi's Trilokpuri around 45 days ago and was reported to police on Wednesday when the victim's father came to know about the

Bur Dubai, September 27: A young Indian woman was found murdered at her apartment in Bur Dubai on Wednesday. Her throat was slit and she died of heavy bleeding, a police source confirmed to Khaleej Times. The body of the housewife was found lying at the doorstep of her flat and the assailant has spared her two-and-a-half-year-old child who was also present in the house at the time of attack. The

Jind (Haryana), September 26: In north Haryana, a Dalit woman was gang-raped in her own home at gunpoint. The attack in the Jind district was also filmed on a phone camera and the MMS was circulated in her village. The police said that two of the three alleged rapists have been arrested. Nearly 60 kilometres away, in the village of Dabra, Dalits have been demanding justice for a teen girl who was

Chandernagore, September 26: Model-actor Aritri Bhattacharya and her mother were beaten up and molested in their home in the presence of a politician and realtors in Chandernagore on September 20. Aritri says the attacker stripped her and tried to rape her in front of the gawking crowd but she managed to fight him off. Police ignored her complaint, although the victims had bleeding injuries

Lucknow, September 25: Ankit Srivastava, a 25-year-old youth allegedly committed suicide following a heated argument with his girlfriend in Varanasi. Ankit's parents told police that he killed himself while chatting live on the webcam with his girlfriend, who allegedly watched the horrifying incident but did nothing to stop him. According to the family members, the mother found her son's body