Crime and crash

Mumbai, Sept 10: The Mumbai Police on Sunday arrested a 20-year-old labourer who confessed to murdering HDFC Vice President Siddharth Sanghvi after he left the office on Wednesday. The accused also told the police that after dumping Sanghvi’s body, he took his car to Navi Mumbai. The arrested accused, according to the reports, is one of the four men who was hired to kill the HDFC VP. The police

Chennai, Sept 9: The AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu Sunday decided to recommend to the state Governor Banwarilal Purohit, the release of all seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the state cabinet which met here under Chief Minister K Palaniswami's leadership, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar told reporters. It decided to recommend to

Dubai, Sept 9: The prosecutors are calling for a stiff penalty to be inflicted on a construction worker who is facing murder charge at a Dubai court after allegedly stabbing his roommate to death under the influence of alcohol. Public prosecution records show that on March 30, in Al Qusais, the 37-year-old Indian worker fatally stabbed the victim in his room. He has been charged with murder and

Mumbai, Sept 9: The car of a 39-year-old HDFC Bank executive, who has been missing since Wednesday, was found abandoned in adjoining Navi Mumbai with blood stains on its rear seat, said police Saturday. Siddharth Sanghavi, a resident of upscale Malabar Hill area in South Mumbai who is a vice president at HDFC Bank in Kamala Mills compound, is untraceable since Wednesday evening, a police official

Bagalkot, Sept 8: Four persons were killed in a collision between a truck and a Maruti Omni van in Mudhol town in Bagalkot district on Saturday. The victims are Kaseemsaab Mujawar (42), Afreena Kaseemsaab (35), Shabana Noor Ahmed (38). They hailed from Kalakeri village. The accident occurred near K R Lakkam School on Vijayapura-Belagavi highway. They were in Goa for works and were returning to

Davangere, Sep 8: Four youths from Bengaluru were killed and two others seriously injured when a car in in which they were travelling hit a road divider and capsized near Hanagawadi village on NH 2, about 20 km from here, during early hours on Saturday. Police said that the mishap occurred when the victims were on their way to Karkala from Bengaluru. The injured have been admitted to district

Bangkok, Sep 8: Fourteen female tourists have claimed that they were sexually assaulted by a guru at a yoga retreat in Thailand's picturesque Koh Phangan island, a media report said on Friday. Agama Yoga embraced ancient tantric teachings under its charismatic leader, the guru Swami Vivekananda Saraswati whose real name is Narcis Tarcau, the Guardian report said. Tarcau, who is from Romania, set

New Delhi, Sept 6: A Delhi court on Thursday imposed a fine of Rs two lakh on AAP MLA from Tughlakabad, Sahi Ram Pahalwan, for assaulting a youth in September 2016. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal did not award any jail term to the AAP politician as "an opportunity to reform" himself. Besides Pahalwan, co-convicts Subhash and Lalit were also directed to pay a fine of Rs two

Kolkata, Sept 5: A section of an over 50-year-old bridge on the arterial Diamond Harbour Road in south Kolkata collapsed Tuesday evening, killing one person, trapping several people and crushing many vehicles, police said. The Majerhat bridge in the crowded Alipore area caved in around 4.45 pm during rush hour. It runs over the Majerhat Railway Station and connects the city centre with the heavily

Gorakhpur, Sep 5: A senior officer of the North Eastern Railway (NER) and former Ranji cricketer allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at his official bungalow in the Shahpur area here, police said Wednesday. Tarun Shukla (56), who was posted as the deputy chief commercial manager, was found dead in the drawing room of his residence on Tuesday afternoon with a revolver lying near him