Crime and crash

Nagpur, September 20: A woman training for the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) has complained to the city police that her husband, who is also an IRS trainee, filmed their sexual acts including some unnatural acts. The man was threatening to make the videos public if she did not pay him more dowry. The couple, both from affluent families, had got married just seven months ago after meeting at the IRS

Mumbai, September 18: The Mumbai Police have exhumed the body of 22-year-old Rameez Chougule, the younger of the two siblings who were found dead at their flat in Versova in July this year. Rameez and his elder sister Rehab allegedly died due to pesticide poisoning after pest control operations at their apartment. The police had then called it "accidental deaths", drawing much criticism from the

Kuwait, September 16: A woman in Kuwait is in the business of marriage – she weds wealthy men and then divorces them and walks off with huge alimony. According to Al Rai daily, the case came to light when she sought divorce from her third husband – a rich sheikh. She sought custody of her children as well as a massive maintenance support. Interestingly, he had previously filed a complaint against

Allahabad, September 15: In Allahabad, a girl who was being sexually harassed by one of her neighbours, decided to retaliate today. 22-year-old Aarti Yadav was shopping in a local market when the young man passed lewd comments about her. She slapped him in front of a large crowd. The man ran away, leaving his motorcycle behind. Ms Yadav, furious, set his bike on fire. The police have registered a

Lucknow, September 7: In a horrifying incident, a quack who operated on an infant at a clinic in Moradabad, 335 km from the Uttar Pradesh capital, allegedly scooped out his brains and later fled the city, police Thursday said. The incident came to light after a post-mortem report conducted on the two-month-old baby boy inferred that the quack had scooped out the baby's brains. The report was

Chennai, September 3: Tracking irregular activity from her mobile phone, a special team of Chennai police nabbed ‘serial- bride’ Shahanaz Ismail at the Majestic bus terminus in Bangalore. The woman, believed to have duped at least eight men from the State into marrying her and then taking some money off them, was on the run from the cops and would have left the Garden City, if the cops hadn’t

Kolkata, September 2: A Kolkata college student was arrested on Saturday and later released on bail for uploading her friend's obscene photographs on a social networking site earlier this year. Police said she had uploaded the pictures as her friend had apparently made some derogatory remarks about her physical appearance in May. The two are the students of a prominent south Kolkata college. "She

Sharjah, August 31: The parents at the centre of the seven-hour Sharjah baby snatch drama have been charged with neglect. Sharjah Police confirmed the move on Thursday after registering a case against the parents of Lailas Ehssan. The child was taken earlier this month when her parents’ car was stolen from a petrol station in Industrial Area 6 in Sharjah. They left her in the back seat of their

New Delhi, August 30: A 16-year-old Class 11 student of a private school has alleged that she was kidnapped in her friend's Hyundai Accent car by two youths known to her and one of them raped her. Police have arrested three youths in the case. The girl claimed the incident took place in northwest Delhi's Rani Bagh area on August 18. Police said the girl, daughter of a Delhi police head constable

Mumbai, August 28: More than 15 days after a man was photographed desecrating the Amar Jawan Smarak at Mumbai's CST station, he has finally been identified and detained. Sources say the police began a man hunt for him as soon as his picture vandalising the memorial appeared in the media. Police are also looking for his accomplice who was also photographed destroying the monument. Police believe