Crime and crash

Muzaffarnagar, Feb 26: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old man, whose sister made a video of the incident, police said today. The incident took place yesterday in the Civil Lines area of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. The girl has alleged that she was taken to a house by the man's sister and raped. The accused also threatened her of dire consequences if she reported the matter

Bengaluru, Feb 25: A day after the body of a panipuri vendor was discovered at his Kurubarahalli residence, Mahalakshmi Layout police arrested his wife, her lover and their common friend for murdering him. Narasimhamurthy, 28, was hacked to death a little after 10.30pm on Thursday. Police rushed to the spot early on Friday after being alerted by the neighbours. Chemical story falls flat On Friday

Muzaffarpur, Feb 24: At least nine children were killed and about 20 injured when a speeding Bolero lost control and ploughed through them outside a government school building on the outskirts of the city today, police said. The heart-rending incident occurred under Minapur police station area, about 10 km from the district headquarters, when the school got over and the children were returning

Bhubaneswar, Feb 24: A newly-married man in Odisha was killed and his wife critically injured when a gift that they had received for their wedding reception exploded. The man's grandmother also died in the blast. The incident took place in Odisha's Bolangir district on Friday, just five days after their wedding, the police said. The police are trying to identify who gave the package to the couple

Unnao, Feb 23: A woman was allegedly burnt to death by unidentified miscreants in Bara Sagwar area of Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district. The hapless incident took place when the victim was going to a nearby market on her bicycle. The body has been sent for postmortem, while police are investigating the matter. Lucknow IG Sujit Pandey and Unnao SP Pushpanjali Devi also reached the spot and took stock

New Delhi, Feb 22: The CBI today claimed to have busted an international child abuse pornography racket operating on a WhatsApp group and arrested its alleged administrator -- an unemployed youth from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh. After registering a case of alleged violation of Information Technology Act, the CBI carried out searches at five locations in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida and Kannauj in Uttar

Jalandhar, Feb 21: Angry over husband's extramarital affair, a woman chopped off her husband's reproductive organs and flushed them in a toilet. The shocking incident took place in Punjab's Jalandhar. The woman, Sukhwant Kaur, a resident of Joginder Nagar in Jalandhar suspected that her husband Azad Singh was cheating on her. While the husband was asleep in his bed at night, the wife quitely

A Class 7 student from a reputed school in Haryana’s Gurugram has threatened to rape his class teacher and her daughter, who studies with him in the same class. Ever since the boy sent the threat on social media, both the teacher and her daughter are too traumatised. Although the teacher, reluctantly, has returned to her school routine, the daughter is still too scared to come back. Another

Lucknow, Feb 21: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Lokendra Singh died on Wednesday in a car accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district. His car rammed into a truck on a highway. Lokendra Singh was an MLA from Bijnor’s Noorpur constituency. He was travelling on his personal vehicle, a Toyota Fortuner, when the accident occurred. The head-on collision with the truck also killed his two gunners

Balrampur, Feb 20: Angry over the birth of a girl, a man and his family members allegedly killed his one-month-old daughter and later beat up his wife for protesting here, police said today. Additional Superintendent of Police Shailendra Kumar Singh said the incident took place yesterday. Rajesh Chauhan had married Sangita almost three years ago. A month back they had a daughter, but Rajesh and