Crime and crash

Ahmedabad, Dec 8: A 19-year-old Dalit girl has alleged that she was raped by a BJP leader’s son at a hotel on the pretext of marriage in Surendranagar district, police said. The BJP leader is the president of Patdi taluka unit of the party, deputy superintendent of police M R Sharma said. The girl filed a complaint at Patdi police station alleging that 23-year-old Bittu Patel took her to a hotel

Dec 8: A 15-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her room at her house in Sahibabad village on Wednesday afternoon. The body was found by the girl’s mother on Wednesday at around 2pm. According to the police, the mother of the girl, who works in a factory in sector 62, Noida, came home at around 2 pm. The girl, who was a student of class 8 in a

New York, Dec 6: An Indian-origin man was charged with murdering his wife here on Monday after a street argument, according to a city public prosecutor. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said that Prem Rampersaud, 50, who was visiting the city from Guyana, met his wife, Rajwantie Baldeo, 46, after she finished work at a restaurant around midnight and following an argument killed her by

Aligarh, Dec 5: Days after setting herself ablaze here after allegedly failing to exchange old notes, a 45-year-old daily wage labourer died at a hospital in New Delhi. Razia passed away on Sunday. Her family told mediapersons that she immolated herself on the evening of November 20 after "failing to exchange six notes of Rs 500 despite attempting to do so at different branches of banks in the old

Bathinda, Dec 5: A 25-year-old pregnant dancer was shot dead in a celebratory firingduring a marriage ceremony in Maur Mandi town on Saturday. The incident was filmed using a mobile camera. The female dancer has been identified as Kulwinder Kaur. In the video, she can be seen getting shot in her stomach, and falling immediately on the stage. The Bathinda police have booked a man, Billa, for murder

New Delhi, Dec 4: An international-level Indian professional shooter has filed a case against her coach accusing him of drugging and raping her. Police said an FIR was registered at the Chanakyapuri police station on Thursday against the shooter’s coach, who is an Arjuna Award winning Indian shooter himself. The crime allegedly took place on the shooter’s birthday on November 12 inside government

New Delhi, Dec 3: An American woman, with the help of an NGO, has approached Delhi Police and alleged she was raped by five men, including a tourist guide, at a five-star hotel in Lutyens’ Zone in April this year. Police said they have received a complaint at Connaught Place police station, and a preliminary inquiry has been started before registering an FIR. Joint Commissioner of Police Dependra

Texas City, Dec 2: Family members of a Houston-area high school student who killed herself are rallying for tighter laws against cyberbullying. Brandy Vela's family says cyberbullying pushed the 18-year-old over the edge, leading her to shoot herself in the chest Tuesday afternoon at the family's Texas City home as family members watched. Her father, Raul Vela, said she had been receiving abusive

Chennai, Dec 2: When two patrolling policemen stopped a man along a Vadapalani street early on Wednesday, a mask around his face and wearing a wig, they didn't know they had intercepted a killer. He pushed them aside and tried to flee but two other policemen caught him and found a blood-stained knife and a pair of gloves in his bag. The patrolmen took the youth to the Vadapalani police station

Kolkata, Dec 1: Hoarding of the new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes seems to have started in the city in right earnest, less than three weeks into the introduction of these bills. Enforcement Directorate officials raided the chamber of a well-known doctor in Salt Lake on Wednesday and recovered bundles of new notes. Their value had already cros sed Rs 10 lakh by late evening and counting was still on