Crime and crash

Kolkata, Nov 30: Three army officers were killed and a junior commissioned officer was critically injured today when a Cheetah helicopter crashed at Sukna Military Camp in West Bengal. Army officials said the chopper crashed around 11.45 AM when it was returning to the camp's helipad at Sukna, near Silgirui, from a routine mission. While three officers died on the spot, a JCO was evacuated and

Agra, Nov 30: At a time when the central government is emphasising on empowering and securing the girl child with the slogan 'Beti bachao beti padhao', in Agra a woman's head was allegedly shaved off and she was physically assaulted by her in-laws after she gave birth to second girl child. The victim, who is suffering from anemia, gave written complaint to police against her husband and in-laws at

New Delhi, Nov 29: Asked to go out of the house late at night so that his brother and his girlfriend could spend time together, a post-graduate DU student bludgeoned his elder sibling to death with a dumbbell at their flat in north Delhi's Burari, early Monday morning. The brothers, whose parents live in Jhansi, argued over the issue as the accused, Himanshu Verma, 23, didn't want to stay out in

Pune, Nov 28: IN A shocking incident, a six-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four minor boys in Chinchwad on Saturday afternoon. The four boys have been detained by the police after the girl told her mother about the incident and an offence was later registered. As per the information given by Pimpri police, the incident took place in a slum area in Chinchwad around 1 pm on Saturday. A

Chandigarh, Nov 27: The Punjab Police and security agencies are investigating the recent activities of the five prisoners who escaped from the maximum security Nabha Jailpremises on Sunday following a well-planned attack by unidentified armed men. Police sources said CCTV footage of the jail, call records of jail officials and others and posts on social media sites were being studied to know the

Ahmedabad, Nov 27: Two robbers, armed with an iron bar and a hammer, made off with 14. 2kg of gold bars after over powering the guard at a cash logistics firm near Mithakhali crossroads, early on Saturday morning. The robbed gold is valued at Rs 4 crore. Sources said CCTV footagehas made police suspect that one of the robbers is a woman. Police also believe that the entire operation took place in

Thane, Nov 26: Seven persons, six of them employees of a co-operative bank here, have been booked for allegedly defrauding customers and the bank to the tune of around Rs 7 crore, police said today. An FIR in this regard was registered last evening and later the case transferred to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for further probe, Inspector G D Pingle of Chitalsar Police Station said. The

Ahmedabad, Nov 26: A 21-year-old man in tribal-dominated Central Gujarat’s Chhota Udepur district committed suicide after his family was fined Rs 1.7 lakh in penalty for falling in love with a girl. Reports said Santosh Bhulabhai Rathwa from Khajuria village fell in love with a girl from the same village and eloped with her when her family objected to their relationship. The girl’s family

Mumbai, Nov 25: In a shocking incident, a 10-month-old girl was allegedly beaten up and kicked at a creche in Navi Mumbai by a caretaker, who along with the day care centre owner has been arrested, police said today. Taking cognisance of the matter after a video of the incident went viral, Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde said they have decided on compulsory

Bengaluru, Nov 25: A 26-year-old techie from Hyderabad, who allegedly tried to blackmail a Bengaluru woman into marriage by using her morphed pictures, has been arrested. He also pretended to be an intelligence officer to access her email credentials, saying her account had been hacked. When Bengaluru police reached Hyderabad to arrest him, Borinchi Raju, claimed he was an Intelligence Bureau (IB)