Crime and crash

New Delhi, Nov 17: A paediatrician was detained for allegedly possessing around Rs 70 lakh in Rs 100 denominations in central Delhi's Paharganj, police said. The doctor, identified as Nallal, was allegedly putting bundles of cash in his car when a passerby noticed him and made a PCR call, said a police officer. Nallal was detained and it was found that he was carrying Rs 69,86,000 in Rs 100

New Delhi, Nov 17: A 48-year-old man died today allegedly after he suffered heart attack while standing in line for over eight hours to exchange now-defunct notes for new ones even as banks and ATMs continued to be crowded by hassled Delhiites eight days after the demonetisation move. Saud Ur Rehman, a resident of Old Delhi, became unwell while standing at a queue outside a bank in Lal Kuan and

Rewa/Bhopal, Nov 16: Police in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh are contemplating a DNA test to get to the bottom of a case after 16-year-old girl’s family lodged a complaint alleging she was raped by a 12-year-old relative which has left her pregnant. The medical examination of the girl on November 12 revealed that the Class IX dropout was raped. But the medical tests of the accused eighth

New Delhi, Nov 14: With each passing day, people seem to be resorting to extreme measures to get their hands on new currency notes. A woman waiting in line at an ATM in Mayur Vihar Phase 3 in New Delhi took off her shirt to protest against the shortage triggered by the ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes , leaving bystanders stunned. The woman was taken to Ghazipur Police Station after women personnel

Pune/Aurangabad, Nov 14: A Pune based software engineer died in a road accident early Saturday morning, hours after he allegedly murdered his divorced wife at her father's residence in Aurangabad. Manoj Madhukar Garule (35), a resident of Sangvi, near Jagtap chowk, Pune, fled in his car after stabbing his ex-wife, Ashwini, in front of their eight-year-old daughter on Friday evening, the Aurangabad

New Delhi, Nov 13: The son-in-law of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has been arrested for allegedly subjecting his wife to domestic violence. The accused Imran and Dikshit 's daughter Latika had been living separately. He has been booked under the Domestic Violence Act after the victim filed a complaint at the Barakhamba Road Police station and a case under relevant provisions of

Hyderabad, Nov 12: Two prisoners escaped from Warangal Central Jail in Telangana early on Saturday, police said. A manhunt is on to nab the convicts. The jail break at the high security prison in Warangal district is believed to have occurred between 2.30 am and 4 am. Sainik Singh, a native of Uttar Pradesh and Rajesh Yadav of Bihar, scaled the prison wall with the help of bedspreads and escaped

Rohtas, Nov 12: Dharmendra Singh, a journalist with the Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Rohtas in wee hours on Saturday. Singh was standing at a tea stall near his house early in morning when three bike-borne assailants opened fire on him, peppering his chest with bullets. The incident took place near Amra Lake in the Mufassil police station area

Hyderabad, Nov 11: A middle-aged homemaker in Telangana committed suicide on learning that bank notes of Rs 54.40 lakh she had stored in denominations of 1,000 and 500 rupees were “as good as waste paper”. Kandukuri Vinoda, 55, of east-central Mahbubabad district hanged herself at her residence in Sanagapuram village early on Thursday apparently unaware of how to convert her money. According to

Jaipur, Nov 9: A 19-year-old girl was raped by her former classmate on the pretext of giving her lift to home near Jhalana Dungari area in the city late on Monday evening. Police said that the accused was a class fellow of the girl in 2013 while both were in schools. Police have registered a case of illegal confinement and rape against the accused and have started investigating the case. According