Crime and crash

Thane, May 15: All's fair in love, or so thought Nilofer, who not only romanced her old boyfriend as her husband worked in the UAE, but even fabricated his signature on a divorcedocument and married her sweetheart. Nilofer, a Mumbra resident who has a nine-year-old son, is now on the run and is seeking anticipatory bail following a complaint of cheating by her husband Yusuf Sherif Mastan. "The 31

London, May 13: A man in the UK has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing to death his Indian-origin wife following a row on Christmas day last year. Laurens Brand, 47, who was charged with murder, used two kitchen knives to repeatedly stab his 41-year-old wife Angela Mittal in 2018. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years and eight months' imprisonment at a sentencing

Pune, May 9: At least five people were killed on Thursday in a major fire that engulfed a well-known saree shop here, police said. According to an official of Pune Police (Rural), the fire was reported at around 5 a.m., when the workers were asleep in a room above the shop located in the Devachi Urli area on the outskirts of the city. The blaze quickly spread from the shop to the room above and

Bengaluru, May 8: Police have nabbed three house thieves and recovered from them Rs 4.39 lakhs worth stolen articles including 108 gram gold ornaments, 4 LED TVs and one two wheeler used for the crime. Police said that the arrested were identified as Arun Kumar, Chetan and Ramesh. The arrested were involved in 9 house theft cases in various areas of the City. Nandini Layout Police have registered

Kochi, May 5: In a tragic incident, a youth committed suicide after setting on fire his wife, mother-in-law and their child at Kalamasserry, in this district in the early hours on Sunday. Police sources said Saji (31) set, his 29-year-old wife Bindu and one-and-half year old son Srihari, on fire, when they were asleep and later he committed suicide by hanging in the bathroom. Saji, a native of

Kannur, May 2: Three women activists of the ruling CPI(M), including apanchayat member, have been booked on charges of bogus voting in Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency during the April 23 polls, police said Thursday. The case was registered against N P Saleena, a member of the Cheruthazham panchayat, K P Sumayyah and Padmini based on the complaint of the district collector who is also the

Chandigarh/Kochi, May 1: Punjab Police on Tuesday said two of its assistant sub-inspectors of police, absconding for the past one month with a sum of over Rs 6 crore recovered during a raid at a house, have been arrested by Kerala Police from Kochi. According to Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta, based on specific inputs that two persons were staying at a hotel in Kochi after

Bathinda, May 1: Four employees of the Akal University here have been terminated following an incident where girls in one of the hostels in the campus were allegedly asked to strip by a warden. The hostel warden asked the girls to strip "to check who among them had dumped a used sanitary pad in the hostel washroom". Girls students at the varsity staged a protest here on Tuesday after the warden of

Hyderabad, May 1: Days after remains of two minor girls were unearthed, police on Tuesday arrested a 28-year old man who allegedly raped and killed them and another girl and buried the bodies in abandoned irrigation wells in a village in Telangana. M Srinivas Reddy, resident of Hajipur village in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, was arrested on Tuesday following his interrogation, police said. A lift

New Delhi, Apr 30: Nursing a grudge against a girl who had hit his younger sibling, an eight-and-a-half-year-old boy allegedly killed her toddler brother in South Delhi's Fatehpur Beri, police said on Monday. According to a senior police officer, a few days back, the toddler's elder sister pushed the accused's younger brother due to which he fell down on the floor, leading to a minor swelling on