Crime and crash

Guntur, April 11: 25-year-old Narasimha was paraded around town in his undergarments, wearing a garland of slippers. He attempted to take off the slipper-garland but it was put right back by the angry crowd following him on the roads of Vinukonda town in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Following him were two women and a mob of their supporters. Narasimha had reportedly married Sheikh Anita

Dhaka, April 11: A 35-year-old Saudi national was killed Tuesday in an accident in Bangladesh. Kamal Gazi, son of Md. Abdul Motaleb Gazi, went out for a stroll along the Chandpur-Comilla highway Tuesday morning, when he was hit by a pick-up. Gazi died on the spot, the Daily Star reported. He was supposed to leave for Saudi Arabia Wednesday. An angry mob from Chandpur town later staged a protest on

Hyderabad, April 11: A 13-year-old girl was impregnated allegedly by her would-be father-in-law in Shamshabad. Jayaram, 40, a farmer from Pedatupra village of Shamshabad, had fixed his son Samya's marriage with the victim from the same village, a year ago. "After both the families agreed for the marriage, the girl started working at Jayaram's farm. He raped her seven months ago. After committing

Sindhanur (Raichur dist), April 11: Twelve people were killed, 11 of them on the spot, in a head-on collision between a lorry and an ambulance near Dadesugur in the taluk in the wee hours of Tuesday. Gangamma, another victim, died during treatment at a hospital in Bellary. The victims, labourers from Kudlur and Hattikuni in Yadgir taluk, were working in Bangalore. They were transporting the body

Malda, April 11: A groom is fighting for his life after being beaten up and forced to drink poison by goons on the night of his wedding. He accuses the father of the girl he had loved -and ditched - of carrying out the attack. Hefjur Rahman of Kheria, a village in Ratua, had a long affair with a neighbour and the two families apparently had no problem with the match. While Hefjur's father, Abdul

New Delhi, April 10: A Delhi Police constable has died and another has been injured after a Mercedes, allegedly being driven at high speed, ran them over in New Delhi's Paschim Vihar area a little after 1 am today. The two police constables, 39-year-old Deepak Singh Chauhan and 24-year-old Amit Kumar, were on night patrolling on a motorcycle when they were hit from behind. Mr Chauhan, a father of

Udupi, April 10: A worker from Bagalkot district was found murdered in a house at the Katte Acharya Road here on Monday. The Udupi Town Police gave the name of the dead man as Basava (40). It is said that his employer, Shaukat Ali, who runs a transport firm saw Parveen Kapoor having dinner in the house while Prabhu from Haveri was waiting outside on the night of Sunday. However, when Mr. Ali went

Madurai, April 10: A plus-two student was stabbed to death by a gang in Virudhunagar on the wee hours of Monday. Police have arrested eight persons in this connection. Police said, M Ramesh (17) son of Mahalingam, and his brother Satheesh (16), an SSLC student, who is appearing for the examination now had gone to an exhibition on Sunday, along with some others. The boys had allegedly got into a

Thane, April 10: The Vartak Nagar police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly selling off his 14-year-old sister for Rs 60,000. Five others were also nabbed. Deepak Gadekar allegedly fixed the "deal" to marry off his sister to a 32-year-old man for cash. The minor's "marriage" to Dinesh Mali was said to have been illegally solemnized at a temple in Gujarat. The police said Dinesh had been

Chennai, April 9: Even as hundreds of students took the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on Sunday to get closer to their IIT dream, it was a sad day for the students on campus at IIT- Madras. Kuldeep Yadav, a second-year student of civil engineering, allegedly committed suicide on Sunday morning by hanging himself from a fan with a nylon rope. The incident occurred in a ground floor room of the