Crime and crash

New Delhi, November 12: Kolkata Police on Monday filed a case against athlete Pinki Pramanik, charging the former middle-distance runner of rape and cheating. The case was filed after medical reports suggested that Pinki is a male. Pinki was arrested on June 14 earlier this year following allegations of rape. The former middle-distance runner, who had won the 4x400m relay gold in the 2006 Doha

Hyderabad, November 6: A 35-year-old housewife was raped and murdered at her house in Kukatpally on Monday. The victim was identified as Aruna Kumari, 35, of Gayathri Nagar in Kukataplly. Aruna Kumari used to work at Noble Binding Press in Gayathri Nagar. Aruna's elder daughter is a B Tech student, while her younger daughter is in class VII. Her husband, Peter, is an employee with a pharma firm in

Ranchi, November 4: A 17-year-old diploma student was raped by the manager of a city-based girls' hostel on Saturday morning. The victim, who was seeking academic assistance Abhishek Srivastava, was alone in the hostel as her roommate was attending college. Srivastava, who manages a boys' and girls' hostel at Premnagar in Jagarnathpur, also lives in the same area. Jagannathpur police station

Nellore/Hyderabad, November 3: A day after a Telugu woman died in a road accident in the US, there was more misery for the NRI community with the suicide of a 28- year-old woman from Nellore district. Mungala Saritha, a housewife, hanged herself at her home in Sun Prairie City in Dane County, Wisconin on Thursday. A close relative of her family said the cause of Sarita’s suicide was harassment by

Bangalore, November 3: Two women and three children from an Indiranagar family were rescued on Friday from a burning building by alert neighbours. Among the rescued was an eightmonth-old toddler. Around 3.15pm, a worker at Rishi medical shop off CMH Road noticed flames leaping out of a house located across the road. The house was on the second floor of a three-storey building, which had a retail

Bangalore, November 2: An MSc graduate, who allegedly poisoned and stabbed to death her software engineer fiance landed in the police net. Saumya, 24, a Psychology student from Surana College and daughter of a reputed industrialist in Peenya, googled information on ways to kill people before she found one to bump off Nitish, police said. They have arrested her and an acquaintance of hers

Bangalore, October 30: Unable to suffer the harassment from her friend, Bhagyamma’s relatives, Kalavathi (18) allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in Magadi taluk . The incident occurred on Sunday evening at Gollarahatti village in Magadi taluk in the limits of Kudur police station of Ramanagaram district. Kalavathi was a resident of Gollarahatti and an employee of a private

Dabra, October 28: One after the other, the men raped her. They had dragged the girl into a darkened stone shelter at the edge of the fields, eight men, maybe more, reeking of pesticide and cheap whiskey. They assaulted her for nearly three hours. She was 16 years old. When it was over, the men threatened to kill her if she told anyone, and for days the girl said nothing. Speaking out would have

Washington, October 27: For USD 50,000, a 26-year-old software engineer from AndhraPradesh kidnapped and killed his family friend's 10-month-old babySaanvi, whose body he stuffed in a suitcase, but nicknames used by him in the ransom note provided critical clues that helped police nab him. Raghunandan Yandamuri was arrested on charges of kidnapping and killing Saanvi Venna and her 61-year-old

Washington, October 27: 10-month-old baby Saanvi Venna, who went missing from her family's suburban Philadelphia apartment earlier this week, has been found dead and a family friend is charged in her death and her grandmother's killing. Saanvi's body was found today in the basement of another building in the apartment complex. "We have arrested a family friend, identified as Raghunanean