Crime and crash

Mau, Mar 23: At least four persons were arrested in Mau region of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly harassing a woman inside a moving bus, police said. According to the victim, she took a bus for her home in Ghaziapur from Varanasi when two men, the conductor and the driver, teased her and then raped her in the moving vehicle near Madhuvan area. They harassed and molested her in the name of dropping her

Chitradurga, Mar 22: The mutilated dead body of a four-year-old boy, who had gone missing since March 16, was found at Chikkajajur in Chitradurga district of Karnataka on Wednesday. The victim, C Abhilash, son of U M Chandrashekharappa and Shilpa of Kadur village near Chikkaraju, is suspected to be murdered for black magic. The child did not return home from the anganwadi on March 16. Abhilash's

New Delhi, Mar 21: A class 9 student of a school in Delhi was found hanging in her house in Noida. The 15-year-old committed suicide after she failed in her class 9 exams. The family has alleged that the teachers harassed and molested her. The girl was taken to Kailash Hospital, Noida, where the doctors declared her dead. The teenager's parents have accused the teachers of deliberately failing her

Mathura, Mar 18: Three AIIMS doctors, two of them women, died early today and four others of the same institute were injured in an accident on the Yamuna Expressway near here, police said. The seven doctors were travelling to Agra from Delhi in an SUV which rammed into a canter around 2.30 AM, they said. While three doctors died on the spot, the four others were rushed to a private hospital here

Etah, Mar 16: More than 40 students of Kasturba Gandhi School in Uttar Pradesh's Etah were admitted to a hospital due to food poisoning after consuming mid-day meal. Meanwhile, Etah District Magistrate Amit Kishore has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident. Students falling ill after consuming mid-day meal has been making headlines for quite some time now. In December last year, 28

Chandigarh, Mar 15: Principal of a Sonipat school allegedly raped a 16-year-old class 10th girl on the pretext of helping her with her board exams. The principal made a dummy sit for her physical education boards exams while he raped the girl in a nearby house in Gohana town in Sonipat, Haryana, with the help of two other women. The police officials booked the two women for criminal conspiracy as

New Delhi, Mar 13: A Mumbai-resident allegedly spent $1.41 million (Rs 9.1 crore) on British e-commerce websites using a foreign travel card issued by the State Bank of India (SBI) with a meagre spending limit of $200 (Rs 13,000) prompting the CBI to register an FIR today, officials said. The SBI had filed a complaint with the CBI in this regard alleging that its NRI Seawoods branch in Navi Mumbai

New Delhi, Mar 12: Two men were killed and three women injured when their car crashed into a traffic signal pole in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area, police said today. The incident occurred at around 2.45 am today when the driver of the car lost control over the vehicle and ended up hitting the central verge at T-Point, Hudson Lines, they said. The deceased have been identified as Ritesh

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 11: Three undertrial prisoners, lodged in the district jail here, have been booked for clicking a selfie and uploading it on a social networking site from within the jail premises, the police said today. The smartphone used for taking the photograph and uploading it on Facebook yesterday has been seized, the district magistrate said, adding a case into this incident has been

Jhansi, Mar 11: In a shocking incident of medical negligence, a road accident victim's severed leg was allegedly used as a pillow to prop him up in the emergency ward of a government-run hospital in Jhansi. The incident is of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, where the victim claimed that the hospital staff put his amputated leg under his head in order to help him. After the case came to light