Crime and crash

Udupi, June 15: Unknown thieves broke into a house at Dandatirtha in Uliyargoli village in Udupi district and took away valuables estimated at Rs. 3 lakh. According to the police, thieves gained entry into the house of Shubhavati between 2 p.m. on June 13 and 6.30 a.m. on June 14 and took away gold and silver jewellery estimated at Rs. 3 lakh and Rs. 50,000 in cash. A case had been registered at

Hyderabad, June 14: At least 15 people were killed and several others injured in a major fire that broke out in Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Wednesday night, witnesses said. The fire, the worst disaster in the history of the steel plant, broke out following a huge blast in oxygen house of SMS II, a portion of public sector undertaking in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam also called as Vizag, about

Belur (Hassan dist), June 13: A woman accused of her husband’s murder attempted suicide, allegedly by consuming poison, in front of a court here on Monday. Radha, 28 years, wife of Kumar and a resident of Dyavappanahalli in the taluk is that woman. Radha’s husband is missing for the past six months. Alleging the handiwork of Radha behind her husband’s murder, relatives of Kumar had lodged a

Chennai, June 13: Police have arrested a class 8 student along with two others for murdering of a 69-year-old woman and throwing her charred body in the bushes near Thiruperumbudhu. The boy had allegedly devised a plan to kill her for money to buy video games. Mahesh (name changed) of Ambattur studying in a private school visited his aunt Saritha's house in Eakaadu village near Tiruvallur. He

Bhopal, June 12: A man riding a motorcycle in Madhya Pradesh had a part of his nose cut off by 12 people in his village. Prakash Jaatav, 31 years old, was attacked by a group of men who said a Dalit or lower caste man had no right to ride a motorbike in their presence. They first beat him up, and then pulled a knife on him. His nose was slashed. They left him lying there, bleeding. The group of

Bulandshahr, June 12: An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 13-year-old cousin and his friend in a field in Nara village in the district on Monday, police said. The 13-year-old boy and his accomplice raped the girl, they said. A case under IPC Section 376 (punishment for rape) has been registered by the victim's uncle, they said, adding, the accused had been detained.

Kolkata, June 12: In the deserted New Market area, around 11.30pm on Sunday, a young girl ran for her life from a group of molesters, chased by a band of locals who had joined in for fun. Bleeding from deep cuts, breathless and panic-stricken, she saw a bus moving towards Esplanade and made a desperate leap for it. To her horror, the gang stopped the bus, pulled her out and started beating her. No

New Delhi, June 11: A dumper truck loaded with sand allegedly ran over a police official near Palla pool at Faridabad near Delhi on Monday morning. The sand mafia is being suspected to be behind the murder. Constable Mahaveer Singh, on the instructions of the Police Control Room, tried to stop the dumper truck when it ran him over, according to the police. The driver of the truck attempted to

Mumbai, June 11: For nearly half an hour, Bhavika Mehta sat with her severed leg on the railway tracks near Ambala station waiting for her family to find her, after a thief dragged her out of a running train. A Bhiwandi resident, Bhavika (24) had been on a holiday with her parents and extended family when the horrific incident took place last week. On Saturday, she was admitted to the ICCU of the

Karwar, June 11: Umesh Mahabaleshwar Kalgutkar was murdered at Hotegali village in Karwar on Saturday by his neighbour Gopinath Ratnakar Paduvalkar. According to the police, Umesh had planned to build a borewell which Gopinath had opposed. On Saturday night, Gopinath deliberately hit Umesh's two-wheeler with his car and later thrashed him with a wooden stick. Umesh suffered multiple fractures and