Crime and crash

Mumbai, Nov 12: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis issued a warning to traffic policemen on Sunday and stated that the policeman who allegedly towed a vehicle with a woman and baby inside it had been suspended. Fadnavis made the statement a day after a video circulated on Facebook reportedly showing a woman with a seven-month-old baby being towed away by the traffic police in Mumbai. In

Gurgaon, Nov 11: A Gurgaon juvenile court today sent the teenager apprehended by the CBI in connection with the killing of a seven-year-old boy in Ryan International School here to observation home until November 22. CBI sources said the court has fixed the next date hearing on November 22. Earlier in the day, the apprehended teenager, a class 11 student of the school, was taken by the Central

Muzaffarnagar, Nov 10: A college student in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district was allegedly harassed by a youth, who also beat her up after she protested, police said today. The incident happened yesterday near Circular Road under Civil Lines police station, when the girl was returning home from her college, an officer said. A case has been registered against the accused, Bhupender Kumar, who

Bhopal, Nov 10: A red-faced Madhya Pradesh administration has served show-cause notices to two women doctors over the medical examination report of the Bhopal gangrape victim which said the sexual act was committed "with her consent and will", officials said on Thursday. At one place, the report prepared by the doctors of the Sultania Lady Hospital also termed the 19-year-old woman as an "accused"

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Ryan murder case has a new twist after a Class XI student of the school was arrested, from his house in Sohna, by the CBI. Sources said the student was charged under Section 302 of the IPC. He was taken in for interrogation by the CBI on Tuesday night. The boy’s father said that he was informed by CBI late last night about the arrest. “The CBI questioned him the whole day and

New Delhi, Nov 7: The Delhi police on Monday claimed to have arrested two persons for procuring drugs over the Internet. The police said that the accused bought the drug “Ecstasy” using Bitcoins. The police has recovered 42 grams of fine quality Ecstasy tablets and 20 grams of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) from the accused which were to be supplied to rave parties in Delhi-NCR. Senior

Bengaluru, Nov 5: A Yoga guru attacked a youth for questioning his alleged indecent behaviour with a foreign woman under the pretext of teaching Yoga close to the main stage of the ongoing Hampi Utsav - 17 Police have arrested Raja (31), a resident of Hsapet, who claims to be a yoga teacher living in the Himalayas. Around 9.30pm, several youths heard some people talking behind the main stage near

Begusarai Nov 4: Three women were killed and several others injured in a stampede near Simariya Ghat on the banks of river Ganga in Bihar's Begusarai district around 7 am on Saturday, police said. Sadar Deputy Superintendent of Police Mithilesh Kumar said the incident occurred in a narrow lane next to the ghat, nearly 100 km from the state capital, where people had gathered in large numbers on the

Thane, Nov 4: The Thane police has arrested a private detective and his wife who were trying to extort seven crore rupees from a senior IAS officer from Maharashtra. Satish Mangle had allegedly demanded the sum for retracting allegations of corruption against suspended civil servant Radheyshyam Mopalwar. He also threatened to leak his phone call recordings if the amount was not paid. In August, Mr

Bhopal, Nov 3: For three hours, a 19-year-old college girl was tied up and raped by four men, who took breaks for tea and gutka before returning to assault her repeatedly under a bridge in the heart of Bhopal. What happened after the rapists let her go was no less horrifying. Three police stations refused to take her complaint — although both her parents are in police — and a GRP officer mocked