Crime and crash

New Delhi, Oct 27: Chhattisgarh Police arrested former BBC journalist Vinod Verma from Ghaziabad early on Friday morning for allegedly blackmailing Chhattisgarh PWD minister Rajesh Kumar. It has been alleged that Verma had over 100 copies of sex tapes of Kumar, with which he was trying to extort money from the BJP minister. Senior journalist friends of Vinod Verma, who accompanied him to the

New Delhi, Oct 27: A 14-year-old boy died allegedly after a scuffle broke out between him and four of his classmates in a private school on Thursday morning in north-east Delhi’s Karawal Nagar. The police have apprehended a minor. Avdesh alias Prince, resident of Shiv Vihar, left for school along with his 12-year-old brother Amit around 7 a.m., said their father Arvind Kumar, a labourer in Gandhi

Mumbai, Oct 26: A former top Mumbai Police officer on Thursday said he sees no possibility of the return of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as he is in "captive custody of ISI" of Pakistan. The gangster is the key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The blasts left nearly 257 people dead, 713 seriously injured and destroyed properties worth Rs 27 crore. "I am not saying we should

Kasaragod, Oct 26: Three persons were killed in separate road accidents in the district on Wednesday. Ushalatha, 18, a History PG student of Cooperative College, Badiadukka, was crushed to death after the bus door abruptly opened as she boarded it on her way to college at Poyyakkandam. In the other accident, P.V. Bhaskaran, 56, was killed and his pillion rider K.T. Satheeshan, 40, suffered

New Delhi, Oct 25: A woman was shot dead in Delhi's Shalimar Bagh when she was returning from a Gurudwara with her husband Pankaj Mehra and two-year-old son. The woman has been identified as Priya Mehra. The incident took place when the family was travelling in the car and another speeding car overtook them and stopped the car. As they stopped, a man whipped out his pistol and started firing on

Hyderabad, Oct 23: A woman was raped by a drunk man in full public view in broad daylight on a busy street in Visakhapatnam, police said on Monday, but dozens of passers-by filmed the crime instead of coming to her help. The incident took place in New Railway Colony between Tadichetlapalem and the railway station at around 2.30 pm. The accused, Ganji Siva, a 23-year-old truck cleaner, was arrested

Kollam, Oct 23: A 15-year-old girl, who had jumped off the third floor of her school building in Kollam district of Kerala over alleged harassment on Friday, died at a private hospital on Monday. The girl, a class 10 student of the ICSE school Trinity Lyceum, jumped from the building after her teachers allegedly scolded her. The girl had objected to her younger sibling, studying in the same school

Kolkata, Oct 23: A woman died on Sunday after she started bleeding profusely at a guest house in south Kolkata's Chetla area where she had put up with her boyfriend, a senior police officer said. The couple, in their early 20s, rented a room at the guest house through online booking and checked in on Saturday, he said. The woman's health condition deteriorated this afternoon when she started

Dhanbad, Oct 22: In yet another case of death by starvation which came to light, a 40-year old rikshaw puller reportedly died of a severe poverty-stricken condition in Dhanbad's Jharia distict, his family claimed. The victim, identified as Baidnath Das, reportedly could not avail any of the government's schemes for the poor, and hence had no ration to fend his family, which ultimately resulted in

Mysuru, Oct 22: A minor girl, who was raped by her boyfriend and later by her best friend, filed a police complaint and accused them of colluding in the crime. Cheluvaraj and Vijaykumar are absconding after the17-year-old girl lodged a complaint. The girl, who stays in T Narasipura, was in love with neighbour Cheluvaraj. They planned to marry, according to the girl. Cheluvaraj recently had sex