Crime and crash

New Delhi, Jan 5: Former Defence Minister A.K. Antony's driver on Friday committed suicide at the official residence of the senior Congress leader here, police said. Police said the deceased, Sanjay Singh, 35, a native of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, worked as driver of A.K. Antony and his family. Singh was found hanging from a ceiling fan in the servant quarter of the Jantar Mantar Road residence

New Delhi, Jan 4: The Delhi High Court today commuted the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and IS Mehta, however, upheld the life imprisonment awarded to the third convict by a trial court in the case. "We commute death sentence awarded to two convicts to life imprisonment," the bench said. While

New Delhi, Jan 3: The decomposed body of a 40-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in the forest area on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus here yesterday, the police said. The deceased has been identified as Ram Pravesh Singh. It is suspected that he committed suicide around six-seven days ago His body was found by a security guard who was checking the area. He sensed something

Pune, Jan 2: One person died after he was thrashed, 25 vehicles were torched and over 50 vehicles were damaged in stone pelting as clashes broke out between villagers from Koregaon Bhima, Pabal and Shikrapur and a large group of people celebrating the January 1, 1818, victory of British troops over Peshwa Bajirao II's army in Koregaon Bhima. Dalits were part of the British troops. The Shikrapur

Ramanagaram, Jan 1: A reveler who partied with his friends on New Year's eve was found murdered on Monday at a partly constructed building in Gudi Mavu, Bengaluru south taluk. The deceased has been identified as Naveen (27) of Devagere village who went out to celebrate New Year with friends before midnight. Police suspect that Naveen must have been murdered by his friends in a drunken brawl. The

Bidar, Jan 1: A police constable killed his two children by feeding them poison before consuming it himself at PWD Colony, Mangalpet in the city on Saturday. The deceased are Vinod, 38, his son Edson, 10, and daughter Jennifer, 7. Vinod, a constable of the internal security division of the Bengaluru police, had come home for Christmas. He killed his children and committed suicide when his wife had

Bengaluru, Dec 31: A 40-year-old actor was arrested recently for allegedly asking an actress to "prove her virginity" through a medical test. Rajashekhar S N abused the actress when she questioned him about a rumour he was reportedly spreading involving her and Kishore C Nayak, the director of her to-be-released Kannada movie 'Ice Mahal'. Magadi police arrested Rajashekhar, who has acted as the

Bengaluru, Dec 29: The mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and her boyfriend have been arrested by the Anekal police for allegedly killing the child in a bid to make it easier for them to elope. The accused are Niveditha, 23, and Satish, 25, from Avadenahalli in Anekal. The child was admitted to a local hospital on December 24 as she was unwell. However, later in the day, both the mother and

Makkah, Dec 28: The Makkah fire department received a call early Tuesday evening of a fire blazing in a residential building in the Umrah district. The fire, which broke in an apartment on the first floor, was contained but resulted in the death of a 9-year-old girl, said Maj. Naif Al-Shareef, spokesperson of Makkah’s Civil Defense. He added that an investigation into the fire’s cause is ongoing.

Mumbai, Dec 27: A 45-year-old woman doctor was found dead in her flat in the western suburb of Amboli, police said today. A case of accidental death has been registered in this connection, police said. Dr Poonam Satpute, a gynaecologist, was found dead in the second floor flat at Karamveer Apartment in RTO Lane in Amboli area last night, senior inspector of Amboli police station, Bhaskar Gaikwad