Crime and crash

Bangalore, August 21: 'Aunty, Poorvaj fell down,' screamed said five-year-old Satya Kaushik from the balcony of his third floor apartment. Twenty-two-month-old Poorvaj and his mother G Lakshmamma were visiting their neighbour K Sapna's flat opposite theirs on the third floor of the five-storey Chaithrashree Residence apartmentc complex on Bilekahalli Main Road, off Bannerghatta Road on Monday

Jalandhar (Punjab), August 16: Raksha Sharma, a student of computer engineering at the MCM Polytechnic College in Jalandhar, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room on Tuesday morning. In that room was a suicide note. The 20-year-old blames two former students of the same college-both male- for harassing her and posting comments on Facebook that distressed her. Based on the note

Bangalore, August 14: Three men on a bike shot at the Muthoot Finance manager and fled. The incident happened at Bidadi near the Bangalore university on the outskirts of the city. The local police say, prima facie appears that the men entered the bank and shot him and then fled. They are verifying if it is personal rivalry or whether they were attempting to loot the bank. The manager has been

Ahmedabad, August 12: A 17-year-old girl, resident of Maninagar, was raped by her computer class instructor and later by a resident of Vejalpur, in a matter of 24 hours. The girl was abandoned at Victoria Garden near Ellisbridge by the latter from where her parents brought her home and filed a complaint for rape. According to Maninagar police, Rajvi (name changed), comes from a well-to-do family

Hyderabad, August 10: The mystery over Infosys techie B Neelima's death is likely to continue for another week as her viscera samples reached Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) only on Wednesday. However, after a week-long probe into the mysterious death, police suspect it to be an act of suicide due to marital problems. Police are waiting for the post-mortem and forensic reports

Bangalore, August 8: Parents of a 13-year-old rape victim in the City have been socially ostracised for refusing to marry their daughter off to the accused, so the case against him can be withdrawn. Tormented by pressure from all quarters, the parents, Syed Kareem and Irshad Begum of Ramachandrapuram have written to the Karnataka High Court chief justice and the Karnataka State Commission of

Chandigarh, August 6: Fiza alias Anuradha Bali, the ex-wife of the former Haryana deputy chief minister, Chander Mohan, was found dead at her Chandigarh home on Monday. Fiza allegedly committed suicide and the highly-decomposed body was found on her bed. No suicide note was recovered from the spot. DSP Mohali city DS Mann said that it was Fiza's uncle who informed them of the suicide. "Fiza's

New Delhi, August 5: A 23-year-old former air hostess with the domestic MDLR airlines has committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Ashok Vihar in North-West Delhi. According to the police, a suicide note was found in Deepika Sharma's apartment that blames the chairman of the MDLR airlines Gopal Kanda who is also the Minister of State (MoS) in the Home Ministry in the Haryana

Birbhum, August 5: Two women teachers were arrested on Saturday for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money, at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The girl, a student of class-XI, filed a complaint with the police that two teachers, Chaitali Gupta and Lipika Saha, took her to the teachers' room yesterday and strip

Patna, August 4: Ten of the 24 girl students of a government residential school in Bihar, who went missing five years ago, were pushed into flesh trade, police said Saturday. Shivdeep W. Lande, the Araria district superintendent of police, said a police team had found that 10 of the 24 missing students of the Kasturba Gandhi Residential School in Simraha had been pushed into flesh trade. "I was