Crime and crash

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

New Delhi, Sept 19: Days, after seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur was brutally murdered inside the school in Gurugram, another student of a private school in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, was found dead inside the premises. The deceased identified as Neetu Chauhan was found lying on the ground of the Modern City Montessori School in a critical condition. The 16-year-old girl had gone to toilet

Hyderabad, Sept 18: Six members of a family, including two children, were found dead at their house in Suryapet town of Telangana on Monday morning, police said. Four adult members among the deceased allegedly administered a pesticide to the two children, aged four and two years, on Sunday night and consumed it themselves, the preliminary probe suggested. The family was reportedly facing a serious

New Delhi, Sept 18: A 29-year-old man was stabbed to death by unidentified men outside a 'dhaba' in east Delhi following an argument over parking his scooter, the police said. Nishant Arora, employed with an insurance firm, and his friend Gaurav Sharma, had gone for dinner at a 'dhaba' at Jheel Chowk in Geeta Colony when the incident took place. Arora and Sharma were parking their two-wheeler when