Crime and crash

Bengaluru, Mar 29: A 36-year-old man, who posed as a client relationship manager of an international airline and blackmailed aspiring flight attendants, was arrested by cybercrime police here on Tuesday. During video interviews, he would force women to indulge in sex chats with him. Deepuraj, who has several aliases like Dr Harikrishnan, Dr Rajesh Panikar, Rakesh Sharma and Rakesh Nayar, is a

Itanagar, Mar 28: Two men were paraded naked by a mob in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh for reportedly raping a high school student, a top police officer said. The two accused were thrashed and paraded naked by the mob, including women, in Yingkiong market area on March 26 before being handed over to the police. Two others are absconding, the police officer said. The 17-year-old girl

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 27: A popular radio jockey was hacked to death on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday while he was sitting with his friend at his studio in Thiruvananthapuram. Rajesh alias Rasikan Rajesh, 36, was also a mimicry artist as well as a folk singer. According to the rural district police, the crime took place around 2am at the sound recording studio - Metro Studio -

Al Fujairah, Mar 26: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a 10-year-old girl was strangled to death after her shila (head scarf) was accidentally wrapped and pulled hard around her neck when she was her quad bike in the city of Dibba Al Fujairah in United Arab Emirates. Police sources said that the Emirati girl, a grade-5 student, was riding her quad bike in front of her house at Al Tawain area when her

Lucknow, Mar 25: Two men have been killed in an encounter blitz in western Uttar Pradesh in a span of 24 hours. The police shot dead the two men in Noida and Saharanpur. Five others who are alleged to be involved in several criminal cases in UP were injured during gunfights with the police. In Noida, about 15 kilometres from Delhi, police said they shot dead Shravan Chaudhary, who was wanted in

Guwahati, Mar 24: A five-year-old girl died after she was allegedly gang-raped and then set ablaze by five persons at her home. The incident took place on Friday in Nagaon's Bordua in Assam. The girl was reportedly raped in her house when she was alone in the home after returning from school. Then the accused poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze. The victim was found by one of the family

Bulandshahr, Mar 23: A woman was publicly beaten up by her husband on a village panchayat's orders for allegedly eloping with another man in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr city. She was subject to the assault after her husband forcibly brought her back from another village. The woman was tied to a tree and thrashed in front of the villagers. The incident occurred on March 10 at Launga village, but

A 22-year-old woman has been stabbed to death just hours before her wedding by her casteist father, who had grudgingly agreed to let her marry the man she loved. The incident took place at about 5 pm on Thursday, March 22, in Malappuram district of Kerala. Jurisdictional Areekode police have detained the killer father, Rajan. Athira, a resident of Poovathikandi in the district, was scheduled to

Bihar, Mar 23: At least five people were dead and 25 injured in a blast at an illegal firecracker factory in Nalanda district of Bihar on Friday. Five houses near the factory were severely damaged due to the blasts. The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment. Seventeen people are in a critical condition. The incident took place on Friday morning, around 5 am. A team of police and fire

Kolar, Mar 23: Two students and a motorbike rider were killed and another student was injured in an accident at Vadagur Gate off NH 75 on the outskirts of Kolar on Thursday evening. According to the police, Narayanaswamy, 13, Sudarshan, 14, and Vijaykumar, 14, were walking home from Janata High School in Kembodi when they were knocked down by a biker who had allegedly been hit by a car around 5 p