Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Sept 18: South Zone Enforcement wing (Commercial Taxes Department) officers busted a gang indulging in issuing of bogus and e-way bills and arrested one person in this connection. The arrested was identified as Kuldeep Choudhary, proprietor, M/S Neelakanth Exports, according to a statement by the Commissioner of Central Taxes (Karnataka) M S Srikar here said on Tuesday. He said that

Bengaluru, Sep 18: Police have nabbed three people and recovered from them 124 bundles of foreign Cigarettes worth about Rs 5 lakh. Police said on Tuesday that the arrested were identified as Amjad Pasha, Satish Kumar and Jayanti Lal. The trio were moving in a suspicious manner when night beat Police got message about they were trying to sell imported Cigarettes with out health warning on the

Ajman, Sept 18: Nine residents were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire erupted in an apartment in a residential building in Al Nuaimiah area in Ajman on Monday morning, according to police. The blaze broke out from a faulty washing machine in an apartment, and was controlled in a record time. The apartment was gutted in the fire that started at around 11am, according to Lieutenant Colonel

Mumbai, Sept 17: The 42-year-old director of a vedic school in Parbhani district was arrested and two juvenile students were detained for the alleged assault and ragging of two minor students, the police said on Sunday. The victims, in the age group of 9 to 10 years, were allegedly ragged and their private parts were tied with manja (string) by the accused, Parbhani’s deputy superintendent of

New Delhi, Sept 16: The National Commission for Women stepped in Saturday as an army man and two others accused of raping a woman in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district continued to evade arrest. A top commander said the Army will help the police in the probe. The Haryana police set up a special investigation team and announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to their arrest. The victim

Mysuru, Sept 15: City Police have arrested a medical Superintendent for sexually harassing his daughter. Police said on Saturday that the accused has been identified as Dr Imtiaz Ahmed Khan, 58, Medical Superintendent at ESI Hospital in Mandya. He was allegedly harassing his daughter at his residence on MG Road in Udayagiri for the last seven years. He is also accused of assaulting his wife

Imphal, Sept 15: A man has been allegedly lynched in Imphal West district of Manipur on suspicion of stealing vehicles, a senior police officer said. Five persons have been arrested in the matter, he said. Two associates of the victim managed to escape from the scene, the officer said. The incident took place at Thouroijam Awang Leikai area on Thursday, Imphal West Superintendent of Police (SP)

Bengaluru, Sep 14: Two drug peddlers, one from Cango and another from Sudan, were nabbed and two KG ganja were seized from them by Central Bureau Women and Narcotic Drug squad of the city police. Police said on Friday that, Kevin, native of Kinshasa, Cango, was nabbed while selling the banned narcotic to known customers and one KG ganja, one mobile phone, plastic covers used for packing the drug

New Delhi, Sept 14: Self-styled godman Ashu Maharaj, who previously had the name Asif Khan, was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly raping a woman and her minor daughter at his ashram in Delhi, police said. His son Samar Khan was also detained by the Crime Branch for raping the woman, Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) Rajiv Ranjan said. The two accused were questioned for hours in

Chennai, Sept 14: A local DMK functionary allegedly thrashed a woman at a beauty parlour with a video of the incident going viral, leading to his arrest and the party sacking him from primary membership. In the short video which went viral Thursday, the man clad in a white shirt and dhoti is seen repeatedly kicking the woman and pushing her down in the parlour in Perambalur, about 300 km from here