Crime and crash

Chennai, September 3: Tracking irregular activity from her mobile phone, a special team of Chennai police nabbed ‘serial- bride’ Shahanaz Ismail at the Majestic bus terminus in Bangalore. The woman, believed to have duped at least eight men from the State into marrying her and then taking some money off them, was on the run from the cops and would have left the Garden City, if the cops hadn’t

Kolkata, September 2: A Kolkata college student was arrested on Saturday and later released on bail for uploading her friend's obscene photographs on a social networking site earlier this year. Police said she had uploaded the pictures as her friend had apparently made some derogatory remarks about her physical appearance in May. The two are the students of a prominent south Kolkata college. "She

Sharjah, August 31: The parents at the centre of the seven-hour Sharjah baby snatch drama have been charged with neglect. Sharjah Police confirmed the move on Thursday after registering a case against the parents of Lailas Ehssan. The child was taken earlier this month when her parents’ car was stolen from a petrol station in Industrial Area 6 in Sharjah. They left her in the back seat of their

New Delhi, August 30: A 16-year-old Class 11 student of a private school has alleged that she was kidnapped in her friend's Hyundai Accent car by two youths known to her and one of them raped her. Police have arrested three youths in the case. The girl claimed the incident took place in northwest Delhi's Rani Bagh area on August 18. Police said the girl, daughter of a Delhi police head constable

Mumbai, August 28: More than 15 days after a man was photographed desecrating the Amar Jawan Smarak at Mumbai's CST station, he has finally been identified and detained. Sources say the police began a man hunt for him as soon as his picture vandalising the memorial appeared in the media. Police are also looking for his accomplice who was also photographed destroying the monument. Police believe

Bhopal, August 28: "My husband strips me naked every night and compels me to dance nude, sometimes in front of my children. He urinates on my food and forces me to consume the same," a 30-year-old woman narrated a harrowing tale of torture, she is suffering in 12 years of her marriage, to members of a family counselling centre in Betul district on Sunday. "Please help me separate from him. Send me

HD Kote (Mysore), August 26: A 45-year-old tribal woman was mauled to death by a tiger and a crocodile bit the hand of a man in two separate incidents in the taluk on Saturday. Mahadevamma, who was grazing her goats and sheep in the forest, went to a house at Bommalapura hadi in the taluk seeking water to drink. The tiger, which was hiding nearby, pounced on the goat and injured it in the stomach

Jaipur, August 25: The Jaipur Police are looking for a 20-year-old girl who stole diamonds worth Rs. 25 lakh from a jewellery shop in Vaishali Nagar area and vanished. The accused, Jyoti, showed her remarkable sleight of hand and stole seven pieces of jewellery at a time when the shop was filled with customers and attendants. Jyoti had been working at JKJ Jewellers for 15 days. The police are now

Nashik, August 24: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three persons in a moving car in the city, police said today. The Class IX student was forcibly taken into a car by the three men in Chetna Nagar area on Wednesday evening, who gang-raped her in the moving vehicle and later dropped her at the spot from where she was picked, police said. They threatened her against telling about the

Panaji, August 22: A 21-year-old in Goa has killed himself after an MMS that featured him with his girlfriend went viral. The police says that Arjun Mainkar from a village in North Goa, hanged himself on August 5 . His suicide note says that his girlfriend's family had allegedly threatened to harm his sister as revenge for the MMS. The police said they have registered a case against the girl's