Crime and crash

Bangalore, Jan 2: Three MBBS students from Karnataka were debarred from appearing in the ongoing final year examination on charges of copying with the help of hi-tech digital gadgets, a top official of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) said today. The students, appearing for the examination in Bijapur three days ago, were caught copying using a customised China-made shirt in which

New Delhi, Jan 2: Calling the Delhi gang-rape "the worst in the world", police officers are calling for urgent amendments in the archaic Indian Penal Code (IPC) to provide justice to women in distress. Even police officers who have over the decades seen countless bodies and battered humans are unable to control their emotions as they talk about the savagery committed Dec 16 on the victim who

Bangalore, December 30: A real-estate businessman was brutally attacked and stabbed to death in his office near Vidyapeetha Circle on Saturday afternoon. The dead has been identified as Shankar, 46, a resident of Hosakere Halli. The incident happened at about 12:30 pm when Shankar was in his office as usual. Three men, wearing helmets, barged into the office and assaulted Shankar. “One of them

Gulbarga, December 30: In yet another rape case reported from Karnataka, a youth was arrested on charges of abducting and raping a minor girl. The incident of rape has come to light after 10-days following the girl returning home two days ago, police said. The accused Sabanna Nalappa Poojary (24), who is already married, kidnapped the 15-year-old girl from a agriculture field on December 19 in

New Delhi, December 30: Even as angry protest over the horrific gang-rape of a woman in Delhi rages, another girl has been molested in the national capital. The girl was molested by an off-duty conductor in a moving DTC cluster bus on Saturday night at Tansen Marg. The girl was spotted crying on the bus by cops, when the driver stopped at a police post to enquire about the way to Lajpat Nagar. The

Bhopal, December 28: A 21-year-old woman in Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh walked into a police station on Thursday morning and claimed that she was raped by the nephew of a local BJP leader inside the party office. The incident, she claimed, occurred on November 17. The alleged culprit has been identified by cops as Siviss Awadhiya. The accused allegedly told the victim that she could surf

Bangalore, December 28: In a startling incident that sparked speculations of a child trafficking racket in the City, the owner of a private nursing home at Neelasandra was caught red-handed while selling an infant on Thursday. During a preliminary probe by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), the accused Parvin, a gynaecologist, confessed to selling at least four newborns since 2004. The arrest

New Delhi, December 27: A 42-year-old woman was sedated and raped allegedly by three men in Uttar Pradesh who then dumped her in south-east Delhi, police said today. The fresh case comes close on the heels of a 23-year-old girl being gang-raped in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16. Police claimed that the woman, who hails from Jaipur, was raped somewhere in Vrindavan and dumped in south

Chamrajnagar, December 27: A couple and their daughter from Kerala were killed on the spot when their car collided head on with an SUV on Bangalore-Nilgiri National Highway near Bendagalli, Gundlupet taluk in the district Wednesday afternoon. Rajiv (48), wife Asha (40) and their daughter Arathi (16) died when their car rammed the four-wheeler from Gundlupet. The injured, Kaleem and other eight

Madikeri, December 26: A promising 15-year old sub-junior hockey player alleged that she was repeatedly raped by a married youth, which made her pregnant. The victim, a student of Class IX who played at a national school games competition, revealed this to her family members after doctors diagnosed that she was pregnant, police said. She is an under-17 player at the national school level. The girl