Crime and crash

Kasaragod, Sept 28: A 44-year-old man has been arrested on the charge of sexually abusing two minor girls at Bandiyode, near Kumbla. The girls are siblings and one of them is speech impaired. Gangadharan, an autorickshaw driver and a resident of Mullamkai, was arrested by a police team led by Kumbla Circle Inspector K. Premsadan on Wednesday night. The children are aged 12 and 10. Gangadharan has

Kolar Gold Fields, Sep 27: Five people, including a Indian Army Havaldar serving in Jammu and Kashmir, died and another person was seriously injured when a car in which they were traveling, collided against another car coming in the opposite direction at Amekara village in Bangarpet Taluk in Kolar district of Karnataka on Thursday. Police said that the deceased were identified as Bharat Kumar

New Delhi, Sept 27: A five-storey "weak" building collapsed in northwest Delhi on Wednesday, killing seven people including four children, three weeks after the 20-year-old structure was "inspected" by a municipal team following complaints. The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident, and police registered a case under IPC Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting

New Delhi, Sept 24: A 22-year-old man lost almost half of his tongue after his pregnant wife deliberately bit it off while kissing him, the police said Sunday. The incident was reported from outer Delhi's Ranhola on Saturday night. Locals said that the woman was not happy as she felt her husband was not good-looking. However, the couple had compatibility issues and had regular fights, the police

Karur, Sept 23: A 15-year-old boy was allegedly lynched by a group of people in Tamil Nadu's Karur district on Sunday over suspicion that he had stolen a mobile phone, police said. The boy, allegedly in the habit of indulging in small thefts, was fatally beaten up by some people, who suspected him to be behind the theft of the mobile phone and Rs 3,000 cash of a man in Allalikoundanur village, a

Muzaffarnagar, Sept 23: Two men have been arrested for allegedly murdering their brother-in-law, a government official, in a case of honour killing, police said Sunday. The brothers-in-law, Adesh and Vishal, were arrested for killing Manoj Sharma who worked as a data entry operator in the office of the Comptroller Auditor General, SSP Sudhir Kumar said. Three accused in the case were on the run

Muzaffarnagar, Sept 22: Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday arrested a man for illegally withdrawing more than Rs 18 lakh from an ATM in Shamli district 'with help from the bank manager'. Chetan Kumar illegally removed Rs 18,37,300 from the ATM of the Indian Overseas Bank branch in Banti Khera area, Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar said. The bank manager Robin Bansal helped Chetan in withdrawing

Istanbul, Sept 21: An 85-year-old man killed his 76-year-old wife and attempted to commit suicide in Istanbul after an argument over his social media activity that made her “jealous”. The couple, Bilal and Esma who had been married for 50 years, lived in Germany, and went to Turkey last week for a holiday in Istanbul, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported. Relatives, alarmed that the couple did not

Dehradun, Sept 19: A Class 10 girl was allegedly gang-raped by fellow students at a boarding school at Sahaspur in Dehradun district, the police said. Nine people — four students accused of committing the crime and five members of the school staff including its director Lata Gupta, principal Jitendra Sharma and administrative officer Deepak Malhotra — have been arrested, Additional Director

Bengaluru, Sept 19: A quarrel between two siblings has culminated in the accidental murder of younger brother at Anjananagar, off Magadi Road, on the outskirts Bengaluru. Muniraju C, 35, an electrical contractor and resident of Anjananagar, and Jagadish C, 28, resident of Honnaganahatti village, fought over family and finance issues. Around Monday midnight, Jagadish damaged his brother’s car and