Crime and crash

Jaisalmer, June 19: The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which led to her death. According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new

Bangalore, June 19: French Consulate official, Pascal Mazurier, accused of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, was arrested in Bangalore on Tuesday, police said. The arrest comes a day after the Ministry of Home Affairs clarified to the city police that the accused did not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and action can be taken as per law. High Grounds Police, under the jurisdiction of

Abu Dhabi, June 19: Ajman police and Indian social workers are in a Catch-22 situation about the case of a young Indian carpenter who died six months ago but whose dead body has been lying unclaimed in the Ajman police morgue since then. It seems that his wife and relatives may not be even aware of what happened to the youngster from Kolkata. Ranjit Mondal (26), married to Sunita Mandol from

Bangalore, June 19: The 47-year-old daughter of former Congress MP from Koppal H G Ramulu, who was in the City to visit her daughter, was kidnapped from Jayanagar Shopping Complex on Monday evening. The woman, Vishnuvandana, is married to Ravikumar, a hotelier in Hyderabad. The couple had come to the City two days ago to visit their daughter, who is married to Surekumar. Vishnuvandana’s cousin

Bangalore, June 19: The desperate efforts of a software engineer to escape justice after fatally striking down a pedestrian came to an end when the police arrested him early on Monday morning. Rohan, 28, a resident of Mantri Tranquil apartment in Gubbalala in the KS?Layout traffic police limits was drunk when he ran over a pedestrian, Basavaraju, 31, on Sunday while returning home, said KS?Layout

Jodhpur, June 19: A 20-year-old woman has sought protection by the Rajasthan authorities from members of a village community council who, she says, are threatening her with serious consequences if she does not accept her childhood marriage, officials said on Monday. She also asked the district administration officials to annul the marriage that was formalised when she was only five years old, they

Kolkata, June 19: Cracking down on absenteeism, a top city school on Monday suspended 250 senior students for a day for bunking school repeatedly on Saturdays. The authorities at Ashok Hall Girls decided it was time to act when they started receiving complaints that girls in uniform were being seen hanging out at malls, multiplexes and coffee shops during school hours, particularly on Saturdays

Bangalore, June 18: A seven-year-old girl was brutally raped and murdered by her father’s friend at Nallurahalli near Whitefield on Saturday night. The body of Jayasudha, daughter of Basavaraju, a mason from Raichur, was found floating in a lake at the village on Sunday morning. Nagaraj, 28 who confessed to the crime has been arrested. He too is a resident of Nallurahalli and works as a help at a

Abu Dhabi, June 18: A counsellor was shocked to hear from a teenager that he had sold his sister’s nude video on internet to make money. The expatriate family in the UAE took him to the counsellor when he was found bunking the classes and exams of his professional course back home. “They thought he might be addicted to drugs but it was something else. He was lured by pornography mafia on the

Mysore, June 18: A photographer has allegedly been killed in the city on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Karthik (23), son of Somashekar, a resident of Gandhinagar in the city. The body of the youth was found lying on the road connecting Five Lights Circle to Ashoka road on Sunday morning near Farooqia Girls High School and PU?College. The assailants had smashed the head of Karthik