Crime and crash

Chandigarh, Sept 26: A seventeen-year-old boy was found hanging from the ceiling fan at his residence in Haryana's Panchkula town. The case is again suspected to be linked with the dangerous online Blue Whale game. Karan Thakur, a student of DAV School, Chandigarh, had apparently asked his mother to take him to a psychiatrist as he was getting addicted to a game, some media reports claimed. His

Bengaluru, Sept 25: The Yelahanka New Town police have arrested a 25-year-old autorickshaw driver on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl when she was alone at her house on September 21. The victim’s parents lodged a complaint with jurisdictional police after the doctors confirmed sexual assault on examining the victim. The police arrested Girish, a native of Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh, on

Thanjavur(TN), Sept 25: Three persons including two children drowned while taking a dip in Cauvery river in the district, police said today. A family of five persons from Kumbakonam had yesterday gone to take a dip in the river on the occasion of 'Mahapushkaram' when the incident occurred, they said. All five got stuck in a pit on the riverbed, police said adding while two managed to get out of it

New Delhi, Sept 24: A Delhi court has sentenced a septuagenarian to 10-year rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl, saying the nature of the offence does not merit any leniency. Additional Sessions Judge Seema Maini sentenced 74-year- old Vijay Kumar, a north Delhi resident, and said the mitigating factor of the convict's age "cannot obliviate the stress, pain and

Bengaluru, Sept 22: The body of an Income Tax officer's son was found near a lake today, 10 days after he was apparently kidnapped, and police said they have arrested four people including a friend of the victim. The decomposed body of 19-year-old Sharath Kumar was found buried near Ramohalli lake on the outskirts of Bengaluru, police said. Police believe the abductors killed the teenager because

Gorakhpur, Sept 21: Upset over punishment given by teacher, a class 5 student allegedly committed suicide in Gorkhapur after consuming poison. Eleven-year-old Navneet Prakash, student of St Anthony's Convent School died in a hospital on Wednesday. Navneet's last wish, as mentioned in the suicide note, says, “Please ask my teacher to not punish anyone so severely.” On September 15, the child had

New Delhi, Sept 21: A tiff over smoking in public led a motorist to mow down two youths on a bike at the AIIMS flyover in south Delhi, leaving one of them dead and the other with an injured leg. One of the victims, Gurpreet Singh, 21, a student of photography, succumbed to severe head injuries on Wednesday. His friend Maninder Singh is bound to a wheelchair after a surgery on his leg. TOI had

Mysuru, Sept 20: A man surrendered to Mandya police after pushing his wife and two daughters into a water channel along with his bike late on Friday. The mother and two daughters drowned. Police recovered the bodies of Anusha, 28, Purvika, 6, and Likitha, 3, from the Chamaraja right channel near Krishnaraja taluk, 45km from Mysuru and are probing the case. Anusha's husband Madhu, a resident of

Nalgonda (Telangana), Sep 19: In a shocking incident, a father in Telangan's Nalgonda District killed his 13-year-old daughter on Tuesday for being friendly with male friends. According to Inspector Balgangi Reddy from Nampally Police Station, "The father had killed his 13-year-old daughter Radhika for being friendly with male friends. She was a very friendly person which made her father doubt on

New Delhi, Sept 19: In what comes a shocking incident, a 25-year-old housewife was allegedly murdered and burnt by her techie husband at home on Sunday. Dismissing the claims of accused M Rushi Kumar that it was a case of suicide, LB Nagar ACP P Venugopala Rao told media that the crime scene did not appear as that of a suicide, but the woman could have been killed. Rushi Kumar married Harika two