Crime and crash

Imphal, Jan 3: A youth allegedly sedated his woman friend, raped her and took her nude pictures which he uploaded on a social networking site, police said on Friday. Allam Rajak Makakmayum raped the Mainipuri girl, with whom he had a year-long friendship, after making her unconscious in a lodge at Tura in Meghalaya in September 2012, police said, quoting the complainant. Promising to marry her

Mumbai, Dec 20: A Bhandup rickshaw driver brutally stabbed his 22-year-old pregnant wife on Wednesday afternoon for refusing to have sex. The victim survived the three stabs, but one of the stabs perforated both her stomach and large intestine. She may need to undergo an abortion as she was underwent several X-rays and medical procedures, said sources. The accused, 26-year-old Imran Pathan, was

Kochi, Dec 17: Kerala High Court today confirmed the death sentence awarded to Govindachamy by a Fast Track Court for brutally raping and causing the death of a 23-year-old woman after pushing her out of a moving train on February 1, 2008. A division bench, comprising justices T Ramachandran Nair and B Kemal Pasha upheld the death sentence awarded by the FTC at Thrissur in November that year

Thane (Maha), Dec 4: A 30-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her husband who chopped her body into three pieces inside their flat in Bhayander in the district. The murder took place in the high-profile Golden Nest apartment in Bhayander yesterday and the accused - Girish Pote (29) -- was arrested at night, Thane Rural Police said today. Pote and his wife Madhuwanti used to have frequent

Patna, Nov 25: A group of students of a missionary school in Dhanbad were allegedly harassed and roughed up by youths in a train, following which the Railway Police has set up an inquiry. "Though no formal complaint has been lodged either in Patna or Dhanbad in this connection, the Railway police have come to know about last night's incident from media reports and will look into the matter,"

Bijapur, Nov 17: The police arrested a person who has been accused of killing his father after allegedly being denied money to purchase a car. The police arrested Ajeeth Biradar on the charges of killing his father Shivangouda Biradar, an advocate residing at Raghavendra colony here. The police said the accused Ajeeth was pestering his father for money ostensibly to buy a car, but his father

Bangalore, Nov 8: It was a well-hatched plan. To pass off a murder as a natural death. However, it went awry, thanks to a neighbouris intervention. A woman who tried to strangle her husband to death with her lover's help landed in police net on Wednesday. The victim, D Dayanandaswamy, 55, died in hospital. The accused Ratnamma Dayanandaswamy, 33, and lover Chennabasava, 27, who is her husband's

Bangalore, Oct 15: A 19-year-old engineering student was killed after the bike she was riding pillion collided head on with another motorcycle at Neeleri Railway Cross, Bellary Road, near Devanahalli on Monday afternoon. Sneha Prabhakar, a resident of HSR Layout and second year student of a private engineering college in Yelahanka, was riding pillion on the bike of her classmate, Manu, when the

Faizabad, Oct 11: A man axed his nine-month-old son to death to please Goddess Durga in Barabanki. Rajkumar Chaurasia aka Hemant, a resident of Narain Purva village under Ramnagar police station, killed his son in front of an idol of Goddess Durga in a temple built in his house on Wednesday. Police said Rajkumar bathed his son and took him for a puja in a Durga temple near his house. After

Bangalore, Oct 7: Parents of a 11-year-old-girl, Chandini, who died at a private polyclinic in Annasandrapalya on Saturday night, have alleged that their daughter was the victim of medical negligence. Babu, the father of the deceased girl, said that his daughter had suffered an accidental fall two years ago. She was treated at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health for serious head injuries