Crime and crash

Dec 30: Six people died in a fire that broke out in a Pune bakery early morning on Friday, reports said. According to media, the incident took place in a Cakes and Bakes outlet near Talab company in Kondhwa Khurd locality of the city. Six employees working in the bakery died due to suffocation, a Hindustan Times report said. “The bakery owner had locked his shop from outside as a result of which

Chennai, Dec 29: Barely a day before the ruling AIADMK’s general council meeting, several people were injured in a clash among senior cadres at party headquarters here on Wednesday. AIADMK sources said that violence erupted when supporters of expelled leader and Rajya Sabha member Sasikala Pushpa shouted slogans against former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s close aide Sasikala Natarajan becoming

Bengaluru, Dec 28: A 29-year-old woman from Bengaluru has sought divorce from her transvestite husband, who dresses and behaves like a woman. According to a report, the woman has filed a police complaint, saying that she is tired of her husband dressing up like a woman. “He loves wearing a sari and uses my makeup and accessories to dress up like a woman at night,” the woman was quoted as saying in

Ahmedabad, Dec 27: In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and forcibly confined in a farm pit for over three weeks in November and raped repeatedly by a teenager at Kotda Nayani village of Morbi district in Gujarat before she was freed earlier this month, police said today. According to a police official of Wankaner taluka police station, a case of rape, kidnapping and

New Delhi, Dec 27: Four people, including a tour guide and a bell boy of a five-star hotel in Connaught Place, were arrested on Monday for allegedly raping an American tourist in April. The 25-year-old rape survivor, who made a complaint in October, returned to India recently to depose before a magistrate and identify the accused. In her statement, the woman said five people drugged and sexually

Thane, Dec 26: A 35-year-old man from Bhiwandi in Thane, who used his four-wheeler to ferry school children, was arrested for allegedly raping two minor girls for the last six months, police said today. The accused, identified as Tulsiram Manere was arrested last night, Inspector S V Jadhav of Nizampura police station said. The accused allegedly molested and raped the victims, aged around 8 to 9

Thane, Dec 25: A 50-year-old man allegedly ended his life by hanging himself and purportedly filmed the act on his mobile phone along with a suicide note recorded in his voice, police said today. The deceased, Babu Sheikh, blamed his daughter-in-law, with whom he had a tiff, and her family for the extreme step, they said. Sheikh lived with his family at Bhaskar Nagar in Ambernath township of Thane

Pune, Dec 25: A young software engineer from Kolkata was stabbed to death by a youth on Friday night barely 500 metres from her office in Pune. The assailant chased her with a knife after a heated argument and hit her on the head and neck, a motorcyclist who witnessed the attack told police. Antara Das, 23, was a resident of Sarsuna in Behala and worked for Capgemini.Her father, Debananda Das

Sitapur, Dec 24: A seven-year-old boy was pushed into a well by his elder brother to stake full claim over the family property in Bhawanipur village here, police said today. "The accused, Ankit (22) killed his brother Aditya by pushing him into a well," Station House Officer DK Singh said. Aditya's family searched for him yesterday when he did not return home, but by the time they found the well

New Delhi, Dec 24: The man who was on the run since Wednesday after killing a teenager in his car was arrested by Delhi Police on Friday. On the other hand, Surendra Kumar said, "He confessed his crime during interrogation." The accused, Shubham, shot Simran, 17, in front of her house in a Mercedes car in Najafgarh area in south-west Delhi over a minor scuffle. He was on the run since then. Kumar