Crime and crash

Jamshedpur, Jun 2: A man with the help of a tantrik allegedly sacrificed a seven-month-old baby to appease God, so that he and his wife could have a child in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, police said today. Bhadoi Kalindi and a tantrik, Karmu Kalindi were arrested by police yesterday from Chaida village under Tiruldih police station, said Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Chandil), Sandeep

Noida, Jun 1: A 23-year-old software engineer working for a reputed mobile manufacturing company was shot dead at Shatabdi Rail Vihar society in Sector 62 of Noida on Wednesday morning. The deceased, identified as Anjali Rathour, was a graduate from Lovely Professional University, and was working as a Graduate Engineer in Lava mobile company in Noida Sector 63. According to reports, Anjali was

New Delhi, May 31: A 29-year-old research scholar from the IIT allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday night by hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room inside the campus. Police have recovered no suicide note. Officials say that the woman, Manila Devak, was in the final year of pursuing her PhD. She has been residing at the Nalanda hostel at the campus. Police had received a call around 8pm

Bengaluru, May 30: A female doctor in her late 40s has complained to police that an unidentified person had asked her to part with Rs 20 lakh or else he would leak a video he had recorded when she was taking bath at home. The doctor, a gynaecologist and a single mother, said that the suspect left a typed letter on the table of her cabin in her clinic in Yeshwantpur. In the letter, he asked her to

New Delhi, May 29: A 33-year-old e-rickshaw driver, Ravinder, was brutally beaten to death with brass knuckles and bricks wrapped in towels, allegedly by a group of Delhi University students, on Saturday evening. The provocation? He had stopped two of the students from urinating in the open at north-west Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar. Police said the incident took place near Gate No. 4 of GTB Nagar

Rampur, May 29: In a shocking incident, a video footage showing 14 youths molesting two girls in broad daylight in a village under Tanda police station in Rampur has gone viral on the social media, triggering an outrage in the state where the incidents of crime have seen a spurt recently. In the video, the girls are seen objecting to the assault and trying to defend themselves while they are

Bengaluru, May 28: A seven-year-old boy, who had sustained severe burns after an LPG gas cylinder exploded at his house in Marathahalli, succumbed on Saturday. The deceased is Nikhil Karun. Nikhil's sister Neha (3) is still critical and is being treated at the Victoria Hospital. She is said to have sustained about 40% burns. Nikhil and Neha are children of Karun and Maya, both from Nepal.?They

New Delhi, May 27: A 22-year-old American woman of Indian origin was allegedly intoxicated and raped by a merchant navy official in central Delhi's Paharganj area on May 16. The woman came to the country in December for a family wedding and stayed back to tour north India. She reached Delhi on May 13 and checked into a hotel in Paharganj, where she met three men who befriended her. According to

Bengaluru, May 26: When 25-year-old Mary, a native of Mangaluru, landed in city for a job interview for an MNC bank on Bannerghatta Road, little did she know what horror was in store for her. The B.Com graduate was attending her final round of interview for the post of a customer support executive. When she was waiting for her results, she got a call — from an unknown number — and the strangely

Hyderabad, May 25: A woman threw acid on her former lover, who married another girl in Venigandla of Guntur district, on Tuesday. The person, who suffered severe acid burns, died while being treated at the Guntur Government General Hospital. Iliyas of Pamulapadu village in Tadikonda mandal in Guntur district and Hima Bindu of Venigandla village were in a relationship for over four years. Bindu was