Crime and crash

Vellore, Aug 30: A 40-year-old head constable attached to the highway patrol of Vellore district police was fatally knocked down by a truck near Vaniyambadi when he was engaged in vehicle check on the Chennai-Bangalore National Highway in the early hours of Monday. The head constable, T Raj Mohan, stopped a granite stone laden trailer truck heading towards Bangalore near the new bus stand on the

Jalandhar, Aug 30: Two employees of a private finance company here claimed that 10kg gold worth Rs 3 crore along with Rs 36,000 cash was taken away by armed robbers at gunpoint from their office on Monday afternoon. However, senior police officials revealed that till late evening, the company could not produce any document which could substantiate its claims about the quantum of gold. Around five

Bengaluru, Aug 29: Sheila, 37, from northwest Bengaluru, was arrested in connection with the alleged kidnap and murder of another woman whose charred body was found in Mandya district. Her accomplice, Arun, is at large. The body of Thimmamma, 56, a chit fund operator, was found on August 25. Police said she was kidnapped by Sheila, who had invested in her chit fund. Sheila would visit Thimmamma to

Bengaluru, Aug 28: A division bench of the High Court has recalled an earlier order sentencing a dead man to undergo rigorous imprisonment of three months. The recall order came on August 16, 2016, six years after the court had passed the earlier judgement on July 28, 2010. The information that the accused was dead was not presented to the court when it passed the order in 2010. In its latest

Bhubaneswar, Aug 27: A Government Railway Police's (GRP) Assistant Sub-Inspector was today suspended for "not performing his duty properly" leading to undignified treatment of an old woman's body in Odisha's Balasore district. "We have suspended ASI P R Mishra for not performing his duty properly while transporting the body of an old woman. The ASI was suspended after preliminary inquiry into the

Haryana, Aug 26: In a shocking and shameful incident, a couple was beaten to death and two of their relatives, including a woman and a minor, allegedly gangraped In Haryana’s Mewat, after being held hostage by five armed robbers. According to reports, the incident occurred on Wednesday night, in Dhingeri village of Tauroo in Mewat, 45 kilometers from Gurgaon. The Haryana Police is examining the

Hathras, Aug 26: A 26-year-old woman from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, was found dead in her house on Thursday, just days after she recorded a video claiming that her father and brother wanted to kill her. “My family want to kill me, I want to marry Imran, but my family is taking me away to our village. My father and my brother want to kill me,” says the woman named Soni in the video. The footage seems

Gurgaon/Ambala, Aug 25: A minor girl died allegedly while waiting in a queue at a civil hospital in Gurgaon, prompting the Haryana government to relieve a doctor of his charge and terminating the services of a staff member for negligence of duty. The incident occurred on Monday when the 11-year-old girl, suffering from a kidney-related problem, reached the hospital in a critical condition with her

New Delhi, Aug 24: A three-year-old boy was crushed to death by his school van moments after he was dropped near his home in North Delhi’s Civil Lines on Tuesday afternoon. The police said the boy, Aviral from the Railway Colony, was walking behind the van that was being reversed when its rear tyre crushed him, killing him on the spot. Residents of the area pulled out the driver, 20-year-old Rahul

New Delhi, Aug 23: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three youths in east Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar late Sunday night. The victim was sleeping with her parents outside their hut when the youths allegedly carried her away to a nearby forested area. There, they took turns to rape her, said the police. They also allegedly threatened to kill her if she shouted. Panic However