Crime and crash

New York, Oct 15: A 25-year-old Indian-origin woman was left to die in a blazing car by her driver following a fiery crash in the US, police said. Harleen Grewal was burned to death on Friday after Saeed Ahmad, 23, slammed his luxury Infiniti 35G into a concrete barrier on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the New York Daily reported. The driver left the woman passenger to die in the fireball after

New Delhi: In a gruesome incident, a 26-year-old man was hacked to death and his dismembered body stuffed inside a fridge in south Delhi's Saidulajab area, police said. The victim has been identified as Uttarakhand native Vipin Joshi, they said. Joshi was missing since two days, police said, adding his family members had, in search of him, reached his friend Badal Mandal's house here last evening

Hyderabad, Oct 13: An engineering student from Hyderabad committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence after posting on Instagram that she was 'happy to be afraid' and would 'quit this…SOON'. Identified as C Mounika, the 21-year-old was a B-tech final year student. She hanged herself following an alleged scolding by her mother. "Nowadays I am afraid to be happy. I don’t know why people don

Pune, Oct 12: Two schoolgirls were killed and another was injured this morning when they were run over by a speeding SUV belonging to a local Shiv Sena leader's relative in Maharashtra's Baramati, leading to a protest by residents who set the vehicle ablaze. The SUV is registered in the name of a relative of Sena leader Pappu Mane, who often uses it, but was not inside the vehicle at the time of

Bengaluru, Oct 11: The police teams from Bengaluru and Gauribidanur in a joint operation arrested 21 people, on Tuesday morning, for allegedly abducting three youths from J.C. Nagar and beating one of them to death over a financial row. The group had allegedly taken Noor Ahmed, Mubasshir and Saleem to a farmhouse on the outskirts of Gauribidanur on Monday night and assaulted them. Ahmed (22)

New Delhi, Oct 11: A 21-year-old who bought over 166 expensive mobile phones from online store Amazon in Delhi and got refunds running into lakhs of rupees after claiming that he had received an empty box has been arrested, the police said. The police said Shivam Chopra, 21, had made nearly Rs. 50 lakh between April and May this year before Amazon realized that they were being conned and

Sonepat, Oct 10: A court here today awarded life imprisonment to 75-year-old Abdul Karim Tunda in the 1996 Sonepat bomb blasts case. The court of Additional District and Sessions judge Dr Sushil Kumar Garg pronounced life sentence to Tunda, a day after it found him guilty, Tunda's counsel Ashish Vats said. Tunda will now be lodged in the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad as many cases are pending against

Lucknow, Oct 10: A chemical leak in a neighbouring sugar mill led to over 100 children in a school in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh falling sick on Tuesday, police said. Students of the Saraswati Shishu Mandir public school complained of uneasiness, vomiting, nausea, itching and tears in the eyes. Before the school management could react to the situation, more than two dozen students had

Udaipur, Oct 10: Four members of the family of a private school teacher died on Monday after consuming poison.The family comprised Vinod Sharma (the teacher aged 42), his wife, daughter and son. All of them died in the hospital. Sharma, a resident of Jyoti Nagar in Khempura near the glass factory under the Pratapnagar police station, allegedly consumed food laced with pesticides along with his

Bengaluru, Oct 9: A woman riding pillion was killed on the spot and the rider injured after they fell off their two-wheeler while trying to negotiate a pothole-ridden road at Pantharapalya near Nayandanhalli on Sunday morning. The woman was run over by an oncoming truck. The deceased has been identified as Radha Anjanappa (47), from Shampura, near Arabic College, Nagawara, east Bengaluru. The