Crime and crash

Hyderabad, Nov 30: A BCom second year student was allegedly beaten to death by his senior at Pragathi Mahavidyalaya, Koti, on Saturday, when he tried to stop him from harassing a girl student. The accused, Satish Kodkar, 22, got enraged, when the victim, K.S. Harshavardhan Rao, 19, asked him not to tease girls from his class. Satish punched the victim twice, who fell on the ground after hitting

New Delhi, Nov 28: A 27-year-old software engineer committed suicide by jumping off an under-construction building in Bangalore on Thursday. The deceased, Rajesh Choudhary, a resident of Ramamurthy Nagar was working with Cognizant, an IT company in the city. Quoting Choudhary's relatives, police said that Rajesh had been depressed for some time and had shown suicidal tendencies in the past too

Bengaluru, Nov 24: A man, who decided to make a fast buck using his son as a bait, was arrested by the Sanjayanagar police on Monday. Rajesh Karvi, 30, an executive with an advertisement agency, allegedly posed as a journalist and tried to extort money from a private school management claiming that his son was sexually abused at the institution. A resident of Ramamandira Road, Kodigehalli Main

Bangalore, Nov 21: For the 'crime' of discovering her father in bed with her aunt, 16-year-old Nasreen had to pay an inexplicable price. She was tortured for over a year by her own father who also allegedly sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions, and even allowed their housemaid's brother to participate in the heinous crime. Acid attacks It was only discovered later that the father had an

New Delhi, Nov 20: The body of a 13-year-old son of an east Delhi jeweller was found near a drain in Geeta Colony on Wednesday morning, a day after the boy was abducted while walking home from school and the family received a ransom demand of Rs 1 crore. The boy, Utkarsh, was an eighth standard student of Vivekanand School in Anand Vihar. He was smothered and then strangled, police said. Utkarsh

Madurai, Nov 18: A divorced man and a woman killed themselves by jumping in front of a speeding train near Tirumangalam in Madurai district on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Rajendran, 36, of Subbaiahpuram near Vilathikulam in Virudhunagar district and Shanmugathai, 32, of the same area. Shanmugathai was a married woman. Police sources said Rajendran had married a woman from

New Delhi, Nov 16: Suspecting infidelity, a 40-year-old taxi driver allegedly killed his wife and his neighbour in northeast Delhi's Gokulpuri area on Saturday. The accused, Arun Chauhan, is absconding. The deceased have been identified as Kavita (35) and Aakash (23), nephew of Arun's landlord. Aakash had cleared Delhi Police's recruitment exams for head constable's post and was awaiting results

Bengaluru, Nov 15: In shocking revelations emerging from inside the Bangalore Central jail, two letters have surfaced which allege that women inmates at the jail were forced by their jail wardens to have sex with male inmates. In turn the male inmates paid the jailors for this service. The letters that have come to light, though don't have a date but are suspected to have been written nearly ten

Jeddah, Nov 9: A family of seven — including a couple and their five children — and two police officers died in a road accident in the holy city of Makkah on Saturday afternoon, a local online news site said. Three other people were injured. In a report, Sabq.org quoted officials as saying all nine victims were killed when the vehicles they were on collided head on along the south Makkah coastal

Bengaluru, Nov 8: Girl who rejected his marriage offer was the daughter of his former teacher A teacher got the shock of her life when she learnt her former student had raped her daughter. The incident took place last December when the 24-year-old man allegedly raped the girl, who is a post-graduate in business administration and currently employed with an MNC bank, after luring her to his home