Crime and crash

Lucknow, April 30: In a shocking incident, a teenager has alleged that she was raped at gunpoint by the employee of BSP MP Jugal Kishore in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh. The girl alleges she was gagged and dragged by a man into the house of the MP while returning from a marriage ceremony. "Someone came up behind me. He put a cloth on my mouth and took me to the house of Jugul Kishor. He locked

Lucknow: , April 30: A collision of two buses in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, about 275 km from here, on Sunday killed as many as 18 people, including women and children, and left over a dozen others injured, according to the police. The toll may go up and several persons, who have been admitted to hospital, were stated to be critical and battling for life. According to police sources here

Tiruvannamalai, April 29: A 30-year old man murdered his father, a forest department employee, with the help of his friend, eyeing a government job on compassionate grounds. Police said E Murugan, a resident of Keezhkuppam village in Tiruvannamalai district in TN, along with his friend P Vaikundavasan, 30, strangled his father G Ezhumalai (58), a forest guard posted at Paruvathamalai forest

Ahmedabad, April 29: This intriguing tale of friendship which involved the staged abduction of the best pal's girlfriend may not have been explored yet by Bollywood. But it has happened in real life. Not only did a man help his friend elope, but he ran away with the girl and put her up in a hotel to shield the real boyfriend from suspicion! The dramatic bluff - spurred by love and friendship - was

Chennai, April 29: Asking a noisy neighbour to turn down the volume of his television set cost a 27-year-old man in Pallikaranai his life. Tarun, a van driver from Kamakshi Nagar, requested his neighbour Marimuthu, an autorickshaw driver, to turn down the volume since his four-month-old son was unable to sleep with the television next door blaring. Marimuthu not only refused to lower the volume

Bangalore, April 29: Bruhat Bengalauru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Superintending Engineer K T Nagaraj, suspended six months ago on a charge of corruption, is back in the same post in the same Major Works Department of the civic body. But another Palike Superintending Engineer, S Prabhakar, who probed the charges against Nagaraj, has been shunted out of the Major Works Department and dumped in the

Udupi, April 28: A man was killed in a collision between a lorry and a pickup truck at Varambally coming under the Brahmavar police station limits on Friday. According to the police, the lorry was moving from Udupi to Kundapur while the pickup truck as moving in the opposite direction when the collision took place at Varambally. The driver of the pick-up truck Panduranga Kalkura, who was severely

Nagpur, April 28: An eight-year-old girl allegedly bought from West Bengal for Rs 6,000 and employed as domestic help by a couple at Nehru Nagar was rescued on Friday afternoon by team of Childline, an NGO, along with two constables from Gittikhadan police station. The matter is being probed by Gittikhadan police station. Cops said they were still talking to the victim and interrogating the couple

Gurgaon, April 28: A 22-year-old hardware engineer serving a term in Bhondsi jail was found hanging in the prison toilet on Friday morning. Parveen Sharma, a native of Devaria in Uttar Pradesh, had left an eight-page suicide note in which he had written his "only crime was that he was in love with a girl".Parveen had hanged himself from a hook using a blanket as the noose. He was serving a term at

Mumbai, April 27: A college student in Mumbai has taken his parents to court alleging that they are trying to prevent him from a sex-change operation. His father says the surgery cannot be treated as "a personal decision, and the permission of the entire family, which includes his parents and grand parents, must be taken. 21-year-old Bidhan Barua has told the Bombay High Court that his parents