Crime and crash

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

Meerut, Oct 8: A teacher of a renowned school allegedly slapped a student so hard that he was blinded. The incident happened at the Sharadan Public School on Meerut Road, where a Class V student was blinded after getting slapped by his teacher. The student had reportedly gone to get his notebook from his classmate, which is when the teacher saw and reaching from behind, slapped the student. The

New Delhi, Oct 8: Five persons, including four women of a family and a security guard, were stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday in Shahdara’s Mansarovar Park area. The police are yet to ascertain the motive and identify the killers. The victims, identified as Urmila Jindal (82), her daughters Sangeeta Gupta (56), Nupur Jindal (48), Anjali Jindal (38), and security guard Rakesh (42)

New Delhi, Oct 6: A woman has alleged that she was gangraped by four men at gunpoint in front for her husband, who she said was tied and beaten by her tormentors in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district. And it gets worse. The men also "constantly threatened" to kill her child, she was quoted as saying. A police official said an FIR had been registered, and that both the alleged victim and her