Crime and crash

Bangalore, Jun 24: A 21-year-old aspiring police constable died while participating in a 1,600-metre run during a recruitment drive here on Monday morning. He is suspected to have suffered a heart attack Chandrashekar Anandappa, a resident of Attibele and B.Com final student, was among the 140 short-listed applicants participating in physical tests for recruitment of constables by Bangalore Rural

Lucknow, Jun 23: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three men in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday when the girl went to a field to relieve herself. A boy took her to nearby thickets and raped her along with two of his friends, police said. One of the accused has been arrested and being interrogated while the two others

New Delhi, Jun 12: A blind date proved costly for a 20-year-old Delhi University student after the man offered her spiked drinks and assaulted her sexually. The case was reported from Dwarka, southwest Delhi, on Wednesday. A senior cop confirmed that the survivor didn't know the man. Use of date rape drugs is on the rise. Police are concerned about the easy availability of such sedatives and are

Lucknow, Jun 12: The UP Police on Wednesday arrested Pappu Yadav, one of the main accused in the horrific Budaun gang-rape and murder case. Yadav was produced before a court and remanded in police custody. He was interrogated in connection with the gang-rape and murder of the two teenaged cousins in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh last month, reports said. The police had earlier arrested five

Saharanpur, Jun 8: A priest has been taken into custody here after a complaint by the mother of two teenage girls that he allegedly raped them while they were working as domestic helps. According to Superintendent of Police (rural) Dharamvir Singh, the FIR was registered in Roorkee area of Haridwar and was later transferred to Sadar Bazar police station here. The son of the priest and his three

Jammu, May 31: At least four people died and over a dozen sustained serious burn injuries in a fire at a hotel in Jammu early on Saturday. Police said four people died in the fire that occurred in Hotel Neelam near the main bus stand in Jammu city, a kilometre from city centre Shaheedi Chowk, early morning. "The fire started after midnight. Immediately after smoke started billowing out of the

Etawah, May 30: In a shocking incident, the mother of a rape victim was brutally beaten by the father of the accused in Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's home town Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. The incident happened on May 26 in Civil Lines area. Reports say that the accused Sunny, son of Basant Lal Yadav, who stays in the neighbourhood, barged into the house of the woman and raped her

Bhopal, May 30: A 14-year-old girl was raped over and over again for three months by a man in Morena district. Furthermore the man was helped by his wife in the act, said police on Thursday. Her parents came to know about the incident after the girl got pregnant. When they questioned her about her rapidly bulging stomach, she narrated the whole ordeal. She was taken to a hospital where doctors

Barasat, May 22: A 20-year-old newly married woman, who went out for shopping at Swarupnagar Bazar in North 24-Parganas on Tuesday evening, was allegedly picked up from the road and gang-raped by two men. While she was on her way back home at Duttapara, the duo allegedly dragged her to an abandoned poultry farm and raped her. She was later rescued by locals and taken to hospital by police. The two

Banihal (Ramban), May 20: Seventeen people were killed and 34 others injured when a passenger bus rolled down into a 400-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district in the wee hours today. The bus, which was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu, skidded off the road and rolled down into the gorge in Digdol area around 0230 hours due to alleged negligence of the driver