Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Jun 16: A sub-inspector from Kukunoorpally police station allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in his home in Siddipet, just a day after a 28-year-old woman employee of a photo studio ended her life. While relatives of sub-inspector P. Prabhakar Reddy alleged that he committed suicide due to harassment from his seniors, police officials say that

Ghaziabad, Jun 13: Sometime over the weekend, burglars drilled a two-foot hole in the wall of the strongroom of Punjab National Bank's Modinagar branch, entered through the opening they had made, and emptied out 30 lockers. Nobody really knows the exact value of what they stole, but it could easily run into crores. The branch is located on NH-58 and is adjacent to an L shaped plot on which sits an

Lakhimpur Kheri, Jun 12: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly beheaded his 50-year-old wife in a fit of rage following an argument today, the police said. The 52-year-old man then walked to a nearby police outpost, carrying the severed head of his wife in his hands, and surrendered, officials said. According to the police, the victim Usha Devi and her husband Ram Sewak had an argument over a

Noida, Jun 12: The body of a missing 12-year-old boy was found bundled and buried in a pit inside his neighbour’s house at Shaheed Nagar in Delhi-Ghaziabad border, police said on Saturday. The Ghaziabad Police have recovered the body of the victim, Sameer, from the pit. Sameer went missing on the evening of June 5. In the morning the same day, the boy had an altercation with the neighbour’s

New Delhi, Jun 11: In over 95 per cent of rape cases in the national capital, the victim and the accused are known to each other, according to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik. The city's top police officer also said the issue of women safety cannot be addressed by the Delhi Police alone but requires larger participation from various government departments. According to statistics of the

Mathura (UP), Jun 11: Ten persons died after a car in which they were travelling in fell into a canal at Makera area here this morning, police said. The vehicle carrying pilgrims from Mehandipur Balaji temple lost control and fell into the Makera canal, SP (rural) Aditya Shukla said. Eight bodies have been fished out. Efforts are on to trace the remaining bodies, he said. We are probing the

Gurugram, Jun 10: Just after three men, accused of raping a 19-year-old woman and killing her baby girl in Manesar, are put behind bars comes another shocker from Gurgaon. A 23-year-old son of a Delhi police sub-inspector was arrested on Friday on charges of raping a widow and her 15-year-old daughter repeatedly over the past three weeks and blackmailing them into staying quiet by filming the acts

New Delhi, Jun 10: A helicopter engineer in Badrinath, Uttarakhand died on Saturday while two pilots suffered injuries after the chopper met with an accident. According to news agency, the Agusta 119 helicopter, belonging to Mumbai-based private operator Krestal Aviation, was on its way to Haridwar, carrying five pilgrims, along with the two pilots and one engineer. As per the police officials

Vijayawada, Jun 9: A minor girl was allegedly raped by three minors on the premises of a government school in Gannavaram near the city on Wednesday. The accused were produced before the Juvenile Justice Court on Thursday. The seven-year-old victim who recently passed Class II was playing in the Dasari colony of her village B.B. Gudem in the mandal, according to Gannavaram police. The three accused

Bengaluru, Jun 8: The father of a 14-year-old girl was arrested under the provisions of the POCSO Act on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting her over the past one year. Three others, who allegedly assaulted her as part of “rituals”, were also arrested. The family lives on the city's outskirts. When the girl told her mother, she consulted a friend in Bengaluru, who asked her to bring the