Crime and crash

Vijayawada, Dec 18: Vigilance officials on Sunday seized explosive material in a bag found near the Tiruvenkata Padham Ring Road. The bag contained 28 gelatine sticks and 34 detonators. This, despite tight security at the Alipiri inspection centre. Following information, the vigilance personnel inspected the area and unearthed the explosive stuff. TTD Vigilance Officer Ravi Krishna said they were

New Delhi, Dec 16: Suhaib Ilyasi, best remembered as the host of the once popular television crime series 'India's Most Wanted', has been convicted in connection with the death of his wife 17 years ago, news agency reported on Saturday. His wife, Anju Ilyasi, was rushed to a hospital with stab wounds on 11 January 2000. She didn't make it. Ilyasi was initially arrested for harassing his wife for

New Delhi, Dec 16: In a distressing case of hospital apathy reported from Odisha's Koraput district, a woman today delivered in a drain next to the hospital that denied her admission over lack of documents. The doctors allegedly refused to admit the woman in labour after they discovered that she did not have the right documents with her needed for the same. Reports say that the woman did go the

Srinagar, Dec 14: A teacher couple working in a private school in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir were sacked on their wedding day with the school management claiming their "romance could adversely affect the students". Tariq Bhat and Sumaya Bashir, residents of Tral town in Pulwama, were working in Boys' and Girls' wings, respectively, of Pampore Muslim Educational Institute for the past

Chennai, Dec 13: Periya Pandi, a 48-year-old police inspector from Chennai, was gunned down by burglars in a village in Palidistrict of Rajasthan in the early hours of Wednesday when he and a team of police personnel went there to nab the prime suspect in a burglary case reported in Kolathur here this year. The Chennai police had recently nabbed four suspects in the burglary case. Pandi, who was

Bhubaneshwar, Dec 13: Another case of sexual assault of a minor student at a school has emerged and the prime accused in the case is the school headmaster who reportedly raped one of his students at the campus. The Odisha Police arrested the accused on charges of sexually assaulting a minor student over a period of a month in Mayurbhanj district of the state. The victim is a class 6 student and

Tirupur, Dec 12: A court here on Tuesday handed death sentence to six people for killing a dalit youth, Shankar in Udumalpet in 2016, in a suspected case of ‘honor’ killing. The court found 11 of the accused guilty but acquitted the victim's mother-in-law and two others. Shankar and his wife, Kausalya, were brutally attacked by a gang in Udumalpet in 2016. The crime was allegedly committed at the

Kochi, Dec 12: A court here today found a migrant labourer from Assam guilty of rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit law student in Kerala last year. Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court judge N Anil Kumar is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment tomorrow. Muhammed Ameerul Islam was found guilty under various sections of the IPC including 302 (murder), 376 (Rape) 376 (A) (causing death or

Hyderabad, Dec 11: This was a crime of passion with a gory twist and the plot weaved around the Tollywood blockbuster, Evadu,in which actor Allu Arjun underwent plastic surgery to resemble another character (Ram Charan Tej). A woman and her alleged paramour killed her husband and then disfigured her lover's face with acid to pass him off as her husband. However, their plan went bust and

Lucknow, Dec 11: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl was raped twice on Saturday night in Sarojini Nagar area in Lucknow. The girl, a cancer patient ,was first allegedly raped by two men and when she sought the help of a neighbour, he raped her again. According to the complaint filed with the police, the girl had gone to a local market when one of the two accused Shubham, offered to drop