Crime and crash

Salem (Tamil Nadu), Jun 7: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two drivers and a conductor in a bus near in Salem, the police said on Tuesday. The three men, who allegedly committed the crime on Monday night after halting the private bus at a village, were arrested on Tuesday, they said. The incident brought back memories of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape in which a 23-year-old woman

Lucknow, Jun 6: Twenty-four passengers were charred to death and 14 injured, some seriously, after an Uttar Pradesh roadways bus caught fire after it collided with a truck on the Delhi-Lucknow National Highway in Bareilly district. The accident occurred late on Sunday night when the bus was en route to Gonda from Delhi, a source said, adding that the bus was on the wrong side of the road. The fire

Gurgaon, Jun 6: Three persons allegedly raped a woman after throwing her nine-month-old daughter off an autorickshaw leading to the child's death here, police said on Monday. According to the 23-year-old woman, she was going to her parents' house in Khandsa village here around midnight on May 29 with her daughter after an argument with her husband. She took a lift in an autorickshaw in which three

Bareilly, Jun 5: At least 22 passengers were charred to death and 15 injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck and burst into flames on National Highway 24 here early today. The bus of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) carrying 41 passengers from Delhi was on its way to Gonda in eastern Uttar Pradesh when the accident took place near Bada bypass. Senior

Vishakhpatnam, Jun 5: A 10-year-old girl died after she was trapped in between the lift and its door at an apartment complex at Tarakarama Nagar, Madhurawada here, on Sunday. P. Pandu of Pusapatirega in Viziangaram district came to the city to eke out a living and is employed as a watchman at the apartment complex. His daughter Swathi (10) was studying in Std. III at a school in Madhurawada. She

Lucknow Jun 4: A seven-year-old gang rape victim was allegedly discharged from a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad town, about 200 kilometres from here, barely a day before chief minister Yogi Adityanath's visit to the city on Sunday. The mother of the victim alleged that the doctors at the Women's Hospital forced her to take the victim home on Saturday saying that she was all right

Noida , Jun 4: The boyfriend of the girl techie murdered at her home here was arrested on Saturday for the crime, police said. Police said Ashwani Yadav, 25, had been absconding from his rented accommodation in Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi but was traced and arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri. "A manhunt to arrest Yadav was launched soon after Anjali Rathour's family members suspected on him to

Bengaluru, Jun 4: KG Halli police on Saturday arrested the accused in the minor rape case within 12 hours of the crime. The accused, Veeresha, 24, son of Durgappa, who is a ragpicker by profession has confessed to his crime and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) charges have been slapped against him. The case was solved by a team led by Ajay Hilori, IPS, DCP East within 12

Lucknow, Jun 2: He had never imagined that his beard, which he had kept owing to his religious beliefs, will one day put his life in danger. In a shocking incident, a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district, about 400 kilometres from here, allegedly poured scalding water on her husband for not shaving his beard. The incident occurred at Jamalpur Colony in Quarsi area in the district on Thursday

Coimbatore, Jun 2: Four people, including a 12-year-old girl and two women, were trampled to death by a tusker at Ganeshapuram and Vellalore in Coimbatore city in the early hours of Friday. The deceased have been identified as Gayathri, 12, daughter of Vijayakumar of Ganeshapuram, P Palanisamy, 73, of Kambar Street at Vellalore, B Nagarathinam, 50, and her friend M Jothimani, 68, of Vellalore. The