Crime and crash

Kolkata, Jul 6: A two-year-old boy was allegedly sexually assaulted at a playschool in south Kolkata’s Behala area earlier this week. The alleged incident came to light on Thursday, a day after the child’s parents lodged a complaint at Thakurpukur police station. The FIR registered under Sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 mentions that the child went to

New Delhi, Jul 5: More morbid details came out in the mysterious deaths of 11 members of a family in Burari here as CCTV footage showed some members bringing stools and wires that were used for their hanging, even as police recovered 11 diaries that were maintained over a period of 11 years. The content of the diaries matched the way the alleged suicides happened, the police said. The diaries had

Kochi, Jul 4: The Kerala High Court today declined to grant two church priests any interim protection from arrest over sexual assault charges and adjourned the hearing on their anticipatory bail pleas till Monday. Sony Varghese, 42, and Job Mathew, 40, of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, moved the anticipatory bail pleas in the high court apprehending arrest in the case. Adjourning the case

Kolkata, Jul 3: The body of a 52-year-old man, whom the BJP claimed as its worker, was found floating in a pond in Murshidabad district, triggering a fresh war of words between the saffron party and the ruling TMC. Dhormo Hazra, missing since Sunday, was found on the surface of the water body close to his village in Taldanga area of the district yesterday, a police officer said today. Police have

Mumbai, Jul 2: A 37-year-old Italian national has accused a man, who claimed to be a tour guide, of raping her in a cab in Mumbai's Juhu area on June 14, senior police said on Sunday. Police said that the victim, in her complaint filed on Friday, has stated that on the day of the incident, she had boarded a bus as part of a sightseeing tour of Mumbai. "She met the accused during the bus tour on

Dehradun, Jul 1: A bus fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand's Pauri district on Sunday morning, killing at least 40 people and injuring over a dozen, the police said. The incident occurred near Gween village in the district when the overloaded private bus, on its way to Ramnagar, fell into the 200-metre-deep gorge, Pauri Superintendent of Police Jagat Ram Joshi said. The SP, who rushed to the spot

Delhi, Jul 1: In a tragic incident this morning, bodies of 7 women and 4 men were found at a house in North Delhi's Burari area. A team of police is present at the spot and is investigating into the matter. The victims were all from the same family and most had lived in the home where they were found in Burari village in the northern part of New Delhi, said police officer Vineet Kumar. The case

Benagluru, Jun 28: A 19-year-old girl committed suicide by consuming poison yesterday on Triveni Road in Yeshwantpur in the city. Police suspect Sushmitha, a Second PUC student, took the extreme step after her boyfriend refused to marry her. She was in a relationship with 17-year-old Anant Kumar (name changed) whom she had met through a common friend. On Tuesday, Anant Kumar asked her for a

Aurangabad, Jun 28: A Deputy Commissioner of Police has been booked for allegedly raping a 22-year-old daughter of a female police constable in the Aurangabad police force. DCP (Zone II) Rahul Shrirame has been booked under Sections 376 (rape), 417 (cheating), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code after he allegedly molested the lady on the pretext

Bengaluru, Jun 27: Realtor HK Ganesh, who allegedly shot dead his wife before attempting to kill two of their three children last week, has told police that he and his spouse decided to use a firearm to execute their suicide pact after reading about a top Mumbai police officer ending his life using his service revolver last month. During questioning, Ganesh told cops that he and his wife decided