Crime and crash

Sitapur, Apr 19: In a shocking case, a man has been booked for raping his 35-year-old daughter along with two of his friends in Sitapur city in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday. Additional SP (South) Martand Prakash Singh said the woman was raped by the men in Kamlapur area on 15 April. She filed the police complaint the next day. While one of the accused has been arrested, the victim's

Kanpur, Apr 19: A dalit student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, allegedly committed suicide today by hanging himself from the ceiling in his hostel room, police said. Police identified the victim as Bheem Singh, a third-year student of Ph.D, said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Akhilesh Kumar. Singh, who hailed from Ferozabad, was staying at a hostel on IIT campus, the

New Delhi, Apr 18: A cab driver was arrested on Wednesday and sent to judicial custody following a complaint by a woman passenger who alleged that the accused was masturbating while driving. Reportedly, the lady passenger said that as soon as she boarded the cab, the driver began masturbating in front of her. The lady then reportedly asked him to stop the car and filed a complaint after getting

Muzaffarnagar, Apr 18: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father in Shamli district after her mother left their house following an argument over dowry, the police said. The incident occurred in Kairana town yesterday. The mother filed a complaint with the police alleging that her husband, Imran, killed their daughter, Palak, after she left their house following an argument over

New Delhi, Apr 17: An 18-year-old girl has lodged a complaint against her parents, who allegedly took a bribe from one of her rapists to settle the case. The parents physically tortured their daughter and forced her to withdraw her statement against her two rapists in court. According to the girl, she was raped by two men in 2017, after which the accused were arrested. “They had kidnapped me after

Amidst nationwide outrage over the brutal gang-rape and murder of a minor girl in a Kashmiri temple, another similar incident has come to light from Gujarat's Surat after the police and doctors confirmed rape on girl who was found dead with 86 injury marks earlier this month. On April 6, a girl’s brutalised body was discovered by a passerby lying in bushes in Surat’s Bhestan locality. Postmortem

New Delhi, Apr 15: 19-year-old girl from Delhi's Sultanpuri accused her male friend of confining her in a room where he repeatedly raped and assaulted her. The girl later fled the spot and reached home, where she disclosed her ordeal to her parents, who then approached the police. According to the complaint, the girl, a resident of Sultanpuri, came in contact with the accused, after which the two

New Delhi, Apr 13: Four members of a family died after a fire broke out in a four-storey building in northwest Delhi's Kohat Enclave due to short circuit. A call was received at 2.48 am about a fire in the parking area and 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The fire was doused by around 4 am, an official from the Delhi Fire Service was quoted as saying by news agency. Meanwhile, initial

New Delhi, Apr 12: A Pakistani singer was shot dead at a crowded musical event in Sindh province. Samina Samoon, 24, was performing in Kanga village on Tuesday evening. A video clip of Samina, who was six months pregnant, surfaced two days after the murder in public glare. Pakistani media reports say, a man, identified as Tarique Ahmed Jatoi, asked Samina to stand and sing but she reportedly

Lucknow, Apr 11: Two days after the father of a woman, who alleged rape by a BJP MLA, died in custody in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, the politician's wife on Wednesday demanded a narco test on her husband and the survivor. The 18-year-old woman, who had tried to kill herself outside the chief minister's house here, on the other hand alleged that she had been confined to a hotel room by the