Crime and crash

Nagpur, Oct 6: "He (Sudhakar Karadmare) had been harassing me and I just could not tolerate it any more. I used to feel threatened as he kept information about me," said Pranali Bhoyar, 18, while being taken for medical examination at Government Medical College and Hospital after her arrest on Friday for murdering Karadmare, a 58-year-old retired engineer from irrigation department in Gadchiroli

Gundlupet (Chamarajanagar dist), Oct 4: Tension prevailed at Bheemanabeedu village in the taluk, following a clash between members of two groups. Police had to fire teargas shells in the air to bring the situation under control. A total of 34 people have been arrested over the incident. It all started when Nagamallu, 25, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste abused Madhusudan, 18, who belongs to the

Mysore, Oct 2: Sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and volunteers of Odanadi Seva Samsthe raided a resort on the outskirts of Gundlupet town in?Chamarajanagar district on Tuesday. Nine women, six from Bangladesh and three from Maharashtra, including a Marathi TV and film actress, were rescued. A source said that CID teams from Bangalore and Mysore led by DySP Kolhapur raided

Mumbai, Sep 29: The death toll in the Mazgaon building collapse has risen to 61 while 32 others are injured. As rescuers race against time to find survivors under the debris, the real picture of the tragedy is unfolding as families cope to struggle with the loss. The human tragedy of the collapse is unbearable for many. Among those who have died is 30-year-old journalist Yogesh Anant Pawar, who

Lucknow, Sep 25: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly asked to strip in front of cops at a police station in Kushinagar district of eastern Uttar Pradesh to convince them that her allegations of rape were genuine and not concocted. This happened after the initial attempts of the girl's father to get the complaint registered proved futile after he failed to pay Rs 50,000 to the police-the price they

Bangalore, Sep 22: The gruesome murder of a woman by her husband, who later plunged to death from a high-rise apartment building in the City on Friday night, has left the two families in deep shock. The relatives of Madhusudhan, 36, and his wife Roopa, 32, gathered at the KIMS Hospital mortuary on Saturday morning where autopsies on the two disfigured bodies were performed. Roopa’s mother was

New Delhi, Sep 21: Lakhs of devotees congregate to bid adieu to Lord Ganesha at Lalbaug and in the middle of the commotion, crimes such as molestation often don't come to the surface. These images unveil the ugly side brimming over occasions such as Ganpati visarjan when perverts take advantage of the massive throngs to molest, grab and grope women. How a group of men, who seem professional

Hyderabad, Sep 18: Around the time a Delhi court sentenced four men to death in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, the cyber city was shocked by the revelation of a 20-year-old student of a polytechnic institute who was confined and raped for 17 months by the owner of the college canteen. The girl managed to escape from captivity to reach home on Wednesday and the accused, 33-year-old Satya Prakash

Hyderabad, Sep 12: A 35-year-old manager with Infosys committed suicide by jumping from an under-construction apartment building at Moosapet on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Shailender Nemkar, a manager with Infosys, Gachibowli. Shailender had married Reena six years ago and the couple along with their two children, Ritika and Ritik, stays at Hydernagar. Recently, Shailender had booked a

Bhopal, Sep 6: A Madhya Pradesh woman took revenge on the man who raped her at knifepoint by dousing him in kerosene and setting him on fire. The deceased, who has been identified as Raju Vishvakarma, 38, died of burn injuries in a local hospital on Friday. According to his dying declaration, the woman — who he raped — asked him to visit her house for negotiating an out of court settlement in the