Crime and crash

Kanpur, Aug 4: Ravi Chaurasia of Chakeri area was arrested on Saturday night for killing his wife Ruby over infidelity. The body was recovered from Ganga near the barrage late on Saturday. The arrest was made on the complaint lodged by the woman's parents. The SHO Kohna said that Ravi confessed of having killed his wife by pushing her into the river. He suspected his wife of infidelity. On

Bellary (Karnataka), Jul 20: An 86-year-old man has allegedly raped his daughter-in-law at Mallapura village in the district and is reported absconding, police said. The incident took place three months ago, but the woman was threatened by her father-in-law not to disclose it, police said, quoting her complaint. The woman has also named in the complaint her mother-in-law and brother-in-law for

Bilaspur, Jul 15: A 25-year-old woman and her male friend were arrested for allegedly killing her minor daughter in order to falsely implicate her paramour in the crime in Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday. The six-year-old girl was strangled allegedly by her mother Anis with the help of her friend Sonu Khan in Bilaspur town, Superintendent of Police BN Meena said. During interrogation, the

New Delhi, Jul 9: One of the first woman journalists, Rekha Duggal, was allegedly murdered by her domestic help at her Greater Kailash-II residence here on Monday night. She was 81. According to the police, Duggal was allegedly strangulated by the help, Neeraj, who later set her body on fire to prevent it from being identified. The 81-year-old widow of a former journalist with a reputed news

Mumbai, Jul 7: Dawood Ibrahim's younger sister, Hasina Ibrahim Parkar, passed away in a hospital in the wanted underworld don's bastion of Dongri in South Mumbai yesterday. The police said that 51-year-old Hasina, also known as Hasina Aapa (elder sister) and the underworld queen, died of a massive heart attack. Hasina used to stay with her son Alishah and a 21-year-old-daughter in Nagpada's

Bangalore, Jul 1: A 45-year-old man allegedly attacked his three daughters with a machete at home in Tunganagar, off Magadi Road on Monday evening, killing the two younger girls and critically injuring the eldest. Ramesh, an autorickshaw driver whose vehicle had been seized by those who had lent him money, allegedly tried to kill himself with the same machete. Jurisdictional Ramanagaram district

Bangalore, Jun 29: Mallikarjun Swamy, 52, principal of Kittur Rani Chennamma Residential School in Yellammana Palya, Anekal taluk, Bangalore Urban district, allegedly suffers from a perversity. He can't sleep till he rests his head on a pillow borrowed from a girl student. The principal has other outrageous traits too. After a few pegs, Swamy and his aide Karthik would break into dance in the

New Delhi, Jun 29: Police in southern India detained two construction company directors Sunday as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains. It was one of two weekend building collapses that killed at least 20 people. The 12-story apartment structure the workers were building collapsed late Saturday

Kolkata, Jun 27: The danger of venturing into the prohibited areas of Sunderbans was revealed again on Thursday morning when a tiger jumped from the bank of a creek and leapt back with a man in its jaws. This is the fourth time that a human was killed by a tiger in the Sunderbans this year. The victim, 62-year-old Sushil Majhi, lived in Lahiripur near Datta river, less than kilometre from a creek

Lucknow, Jun 26: The arrest of three youths, who along with four others had allegedly gang-raped a girl, shot a video and circulated it on a social networking site, led to tension in Shahpur of Muzaffarnagar district. Though the alleged gang-rape occurred around 10 months ago, the victim lodged a report with the police on Tuesday after the video clipwent viral. She named seven youths, all