Crime and crash

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 31: Specs of blood in a bathroom at a residential school in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar made the warden so furious that she allegedly forced some 70 girls to strip to check who was menstruating. The girls were allegedly also made to sit in the classroom naked. According to a complaint filed by the parents of the students of Kasturba Gandhi Residential School, the girls were

Kolkata, Mar 30: At least two persons were charred to death in a fire at a hotel in southern Kolkata early today, police said. Anup Agarwal and Jugalkishore Gupta, guests at the hotel, were rushed to a hospital after suffering serious injuries in the fire but could not be saved. The fire broke out at around 3 am, a senior police officer said, adding that up to 30 persons, including the hotel’s

Gurgaon, Mar 29: More than 300 meat shops, including an outlet of popular fast food chain KFC in Gurgaon’s Sector 14, were forced to shut down by protesters who claimed to be Shiv Sena members on Tuesday for Navratri — the nine-day-festival observed by Hindus across the country. Protesters targeted shops in Sadar Bazar area on the right side of Delhi-Gurgaon expressway On Tuesday. On Wednesday

Belagavi, Mar 28: A 28-year-old man at Hulkund village in Ramdurg taluk is accused of forcing his wife to have sex with a dog. The woman went along with it initially but later went to police and got him arrested. Sahadev (name changed), a tractor driver by profession, had been showing his wife, Sharmila (not her real name), pornography and expected her to act like pornstars. Sometime ago, he

Jodhpur, Mar 27: A 20-year-old woman was burnt alive in her village near Rajasthan's Jodhpur on Sunday allegedly for protesting the cutting of trees - an incident that has generated anger and shock. The police say the young woman, Lalita, had objected to the cutting of trees in her farm for the construction of a road near the village, around 100 km from Jodhpur. The row escalated and a group of

Mysuru, Mar 26: Ranjan Solanki (25), whose wedding was scheduled in April, and was busy inviting friends and relatives, died in a road accident along with three other family members near Hunsur, some 160 kms away from Bengaluru late on Saturday. Rajan, who was at the wheel, lost control over his four-wheeler, ford endeavour, while negotiating a curve near Nallurpala in Hunsur resulting in tragic

Jaipur, Mar 25: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped, abused, and blackmailed for over one and a half years by eight teachers of a private school in Bikaner. The minor's parents, in an FIR filed with the Nokha police station on Friday, alleged that the girl was forced to take abortion pills after she got pregnant. According to the FIR, she was first assaulted in April 2015. "We have registered

Lucknow, Mar 24: A 45-year-old woman was allegedly forced to drink acid on a train, but her misery did not end there as three women constables of the Uttar Pradesh police then took selfies with the victim, which went viral. The shocking case also caught the attention of state chief minister Aditya Nath Yogi, who visited her while the police claimed to have arrested the two accused persons

Mathura, Mar 24: "Spotters" on motorcycles are parked strategically every 500 metres or so on the road to an exam centre at Shyam Lal Inter College in Farah, Mathura district. Their job is to send out an alert to "embedded moles" if anyone suspicious approaches the test centres. A local contact has assured me that by the time I reach the school, a message would have been flashed and "everything

Bengaluru, Mar 23: A man who stole lingerie and roamed about a women’s hostel was arrested on Wednesday. Police suspect he is mentally unsound. Abu Talim (35), a native of Kishanganj in Bihar, was a cleaner at the Bangalore Turf Club for 10 years. He is married, and his wife and two children live in Bihar, police said. Talim would sneak into the Maharani’s College hostel by scaling the wall