Crime and crash

Jammu, Nov 21: Pictures of a white-bearded policeman purportedly sitting on the lap of a woman Special Police Officer (SPO) in a police station in Rajouri district has gone viral on social media, prompting authorities to suspend him. Two pictures were posted in Facebook and WhatsApp in which Head Constable Zakir Hussain was seen sitting on the lap of a woman SPO who was seated on a chair in Budhal

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 19: Six people, including a couple who led Kerala’s controversial Kiss of Love (KoL) protest against moral policing, were arrested by the police for involvement in an online sex racket in Kochi, early on Wednesday. The police said Rahul Pasupalan acted as supplier of girls, including minors, and his wife, model Rashmi Nair, was an agent who also offered sexual services to

Mexico City, Nov 13: Karla Jacinto, a 23-year-old victim of human trafficking in Mexico, was raped 43,200 times after being lured into prostitution at the tender age of 12. Narrating her ordeal to CNN, Jacinto claimed that she was sexually assaulted by around 30 men in a single day for 4 years. While recalling her childhood days, the 23-year-old said she was trafficked by a person when she was

Tiruchirappalli, Oct 21: At least nine people died and 14 were injured after a state-run bus rammed into a stationary lorry near Tiruchirappalli late on Tuesday night, police said. The bus from Chennai to Nagercoil rammed into the stationary lorry at Samayapuram, killing at least nine bus passengers on the spot, police said. Those injured have been taken to a hospital and some of them are in a

New Delhi, Oct 8: Two inmates were killed and over a dozen undertrials and Tihar jail staff suffered critical injuries in a gang war inside the high-security prison on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place around 2 pm in jail No. 1 when three prisoners of the high security ward -- Ishwar, Vijay and Shadab -- were being taken back to their ward after a routine medical check-up in the jail

Jeddah, Oct 7: Tweeters on social media sites circulated a video clip showing a man, most probably a citizen, harassing his housemaid. Users and followers of the tweets think his wife posted the video to publicize the shameful behavior of her husband as an act of revenge. The video sparked widespread condemnations against the wife. The incident reveals one more incident of harassment of maids in

Berlin, Sep 29: A 19-year-old girl was strangulated to death by her father after she was caught stealing condoms from a shop to have sex with her boyfriend. Asadullah Khan, 51, who hails from Pakistan, killed his daughter Lareeb on 28 January this year for bringing dishonour to the family. Khan and his wife Shazia, 41, are both on trial for the murder in Darmstadt, Germany. Khan has confessed to

New Delhi, Sep 28: A 34-year-old corporate lawyer has been arrested for allegedly taking obscene pictures of women with a spy cam fitted to one of his shoes at a prominent South Delhi mall, said police today. The lawyer, who is a son of a former president of consumer forum in Haryana, was arrested yesterday when a manager of a popular shop in the shopping mall suspected his unusual behaviour of

Riyadh, Sep 21: The Saudi government on Monday maintained that a video going viral online and showing a man beating up an Indian construction worker was not of a Saudi national but a national of another Arab country. The video uploaded on YouTube showed a man described as a "Saudi engineer" beating up the worker engaged in the expansion work on the Grand Mosque in Makkah. In the two-minute-long

Dharwad, Sep 7: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is probing into the killing of M?M?Kalburgi, has ruled out property dispute as the motive for the grisly murder. Initially, the CID suspected the outspoken Kannada writer was gunned down for a property dispute. A?team of investigators went to his native place in Sindagi taluk of Vijayapura district to talk to his close relatives