Crime and crash

Bangalore, February 11: The body of a six year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and then smothered to death, has been found in an under-construction building near here, police said today. The girl, daughter of daily-wagers, hailed from Siruguppa taluk in Bellary. Police said the parents had left the girl alone to look after her two-year-old brother but when they returned they found her missing

Mangalore, February 11: Lokayuktha Police trapped a tahsildar of Bantwal Taluk while accepting a bribe of Rs 2000 for transferring a gun license of one Satish Prabhu on Friday. The tahsildar Narayana Rao was caught red handed following a complaint lodged by by one Satish Prabhu, said Lokayuktha Police Inspector Udaya Nayak. The complainant wanted to transfer the ownership of gun license which was

Kolkata, February 11: A 17-year-old boy, who was among the top-rankers in class and aimed to crack the civil services exams, was found dead in Rabindra Sarovar on Friday morning. Riju Basak, a Class XI student of La Martiniere for Boys, was missing since the previous evening. At 6pm on Thursday, he made a last call to his mother but did not utter a word. Maybe he only wanted to hear his mother's

New Delhi, February 11: A 16-year-old girl was abducted by two men and raped in a moving car in Kanjhawala area of northwest Delhi on Friday. The accused pushed the girl into a Wagon R and drove around the neighbourhood even as they took turns to rape her, police said. The accused, Amit and Manoj, have been held. Shockingly, the car zoomed past scores of pickets and police barricades, but was not

Bangalore, February 10: A 23-year-old man went out in the wee hours of Thursday with his close friend for a bike ride, only to be brought home dead. David John, the only child of hearing impaired parents, was so passionate about ‘wheelies and toeing’ that he ignored the traffic police signboards reading ‘Speed thrills, but kills’. According to Ashoknagar police, John’s parents Albert John and

Bhopal, February 10: Betul police are looking into a complaint of a minor Dalit girl, who alleged that a man took her to Mumbai by a man on promise of getting her a lead role in Bollywood films and was raped for a month. The tribal-dominated district hit headline recently in the wake of incidents of sexual harassment by teachers. The 16-year-old girl and her parents lodged the complaint with the

Chennai, February 9: A class 9 boy of St Mary's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School stabbed his teacher to death in a classroom on Thursday morning. He later told police that he was angry at her for scolding him. Shock and fear gripped the school on Armenian Street in Parrys as 15-year-old Mohammed Irfan, son of a daily labourer, repeatedly stabbed his science teacher Uma Maheswari (42) in the

Chennai, February 9: Police have arrested four college students and launched a hunt for another student for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman after spiking her drinks at a party. The arrested include the woman's boyfriend K Sivanandan (19) of Anakaputhur. Police said Sivanandan, a first year hotel management student of a private college in the city, had taken the woman to a friend's place

Mangalore, February 9: Dakshina Kannada district police have nabbed eight persons including six women and two men, who were engaged in chain snatching, pickpocket and dacoity during Mahamastakabhisheka of Bhagavan Sri Bahubali at Venur recently. Superintendent of Police Abhishek Goyal told media persons that the team from Betagari village in Gadag district led by Somanna (48) were arrested based

Bhubaneswar, February 8: At least 24 people died in Odisha after consuming spurious liquor laced with medicines, authorities said. The victims from Cuttack and Khordha districts fell ill Tuesday after taking the drink that officials said contained drugs used to treat cough and cold and to dress wounds. District Collector S.N. Girish told IANS that among the dead was Baidhar Bhoi, the brew seller