Crime and crash

Varanasi/Guwahati, July 23: Amar Jyoti Kalita, prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case who was evading arrest for a fortnight, was on Monday arrested from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Amar Jyoti Kalita was arrested by local police from Lanka area of Varanasi, IG, Law and Order (Varanasi) B P Singh said. With today's arrest, 14 of the seventeen identified in the incident on the Guwahati

Aligarh, July 21: A seven-year-old girl, who is caught in a bitter custody battle between her parents, faced the most insensitive treatment from the Aligarh police. Armed policemen in uniforms from three police stations stormed into her father's house at 11 in the night on Thursday and forcibly took her to the women's police station. The girl was reduced to tears and tried to resist the cops

Lucknow, July 18: In a shocking incident, an Uttar Pradesh policeman along with a village chowkidar raped a teenaged girl, who was rescued after being kidnapped, for five days before handing her over to the family. Police are yet to arrest the erring cop despite repeated complaints. According to the victim's father, Rameshwar, his 16-year-old daughter Suntia (both names) was kidnapped by a man

Hyderabad, July 18: An Emirates flight, EK 374, flying from Dubai to Bangkok, made an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad, on Tuesday morning after a passenger suffered a cardiac arrest. The 19-year-old passenger, Ali Ibrahim Parwish Sangoor Al Balooshi, was attended to by airport doctors in the aircraft and was declared dead following which his body was

Ahmedabad, July 16: There is another twist to the surrogate woman's rape case. The rape-victim had called up city crime branch officials to say that she wants to marry her rapist, Rajkumar Jadav, and withdraw her earlier complaint. Crime branch officials have asked the woman to submit a written application in this regard; despite repeated summons issued by crime branch officials, the complainant

Dahod, July 14: A college student in Dahod in Gujarat was allegedly raped and video taped by her neighbour. The youth along with his friend then released the video on internet sites and circulated CDs of it. The girl claims the youth came to her house and served her a drink laced with sedatives before raping her. "He used to tell me that he loves me and wants to marry me. He took my advantage by

Haldia, July 14: Teachers in our state do not seem to learn their lesson easily. Despite teachers and schools being in the eye of the storm several times recently over mistreating students, yet another horror story was reported on Friday, this time from a girls' school in Haldia. Three Class VIII students of Doro Krishnanagar Banithirtha Vidyalaya in Sutahata, off Haldia, were allegedly beaten up

Guwahati, July 13: It's a sight that stills the heart and it is captured in detail on a video that went viral on the Internet. For 30 minutes on Monday night, a young girl was molested outside a pub in Guwahati by a group of about 30 men. Together, they snatched, kicked, pulled, beat and stripped her. It took the police that half an hour to turn up and take the Class 11 student to her parents. In

Sharjah, July 12: Two Afghan men posing as detectives abducted an Asian woman to Sharjah from another emirate, took her to the industrial zone and joined three other men in raping her, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Sharjah police said they had arrested one of them and are taking measures to seize the remaining rapists, two of whom have fled the country. The woman had told police that five men

Bangalore, July 12: A Bangalore school has been directed to return a special student's fees and pay him compensation for mental agony as its principal had alleged that "he imposed homosexuality" on hostel mates after the child's father moved a consumer forum demanding his fees refund. Earlier, Phillip (name changed) was not allowed to write his class test and his father, Peter Prasad (name changed