Crime and crash

Bhopal, August 28: "My husband strips me naked every night and compels me to dance nude, sometimes in front of my children. He urinates on my food and forces me to consume the same," a 30-year-old woman narrated a harrowing tale of torture, she is suffering in 12 years of her marriage, to members of a family counselling centre in Betul district on Sunday. "Please help me separate from him. Send me

HD Kote (Mysore), August 26: A 45-year-old tribal woman was mauled to death by a tiger and a crocodile bit the hand of a man in two separate incidents in the taluk on Saturday. Mahadevamma, who was grazing her goats and sheep in the forest, went to a house at Bommalapura hadi in the taluk seeking water to drink. The tiger, which was hiding nearby, pounced on the goat and injured it in the stomach

Jaipur, August 25: The Jaipur Police are looking for a 20-year-old girl who stole diamonds worth Rs. 25 lakh from a jewellery shop in Vaishali Nagar area and vanished. The accused, Jyoti, showed her remarkable sleight of hand and stole seven pieces of jewellery at a time when the shop was filled with customers and attendants. Jyoti had been working at JKJ Jewellers for 15 days. The police are now

Nashik, August 24: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three persons in a moving car in the city, police said today. The Class IX student was forcibly taken into a car by the three men in Chetna Nagar area on Wednesday evening, who gang-raped her in the moving vehicle and later dropped her at the spot from where she was picked, police said. They threatened her against telling about the

Panaji, August 22: A 21-year-old in Goa has killed himself after an MMS that featured him with his girlfriend went viral. The police says that Arjun Mainkar from a village in North Goa, hanged himself on August 5 . His suicide note says that his girlfriend's family had allegedly threatened to harm his sister as revenge for the MMS. The police said they have registered a case against the girl's

Bangalore, August 21: 'Aunty, Poorvaj fell down,' screamed said five-year-old Satya Kaushik from the balcony of his third floor apartment. Twenty-two-month-old Poorvaj and his mother G Lakshmamma were visiting their neighbour K Sapna's flat opposite theirs on the third floor of the five-storey Chaithrashree Residence apartmentc complex on Bilekahalli Main Road, off Bannerghatta Road on Monday

Jalandhar (Punjab), August 16: Raksha Sharma, a student of computer engineering at the MCM Polytechnic College in Jalandhar, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room on Tuesday morning. In that room was a suicide note. The 20-year-old blames two former students of the same college-both male- for harassing her and posting comments on Facebook that distressed her. Based on the note

Bangalore, August 14: Three men on a bike shot at the Muthoot Finance manager and fled. The incident happened at Bidadi near the Bangalore university on the outskirts of the city. The local police say, prima facie appears that the men entered the bank and shot him and then fled. They are verifying if it is personal rivalry or whether they were attempting to loot the bank. The manager has been

Ahmedabad, August 12: A 17-year-old girl, resident of Maninagar, was raped by her computer class instructor and later by a resident of Vejalpur, in a matter of 24 hours. The girl was abandoned at Victoria Garden near Ellisbridge by the latter from where her parents brought her home and filed a complaint for rape. According to Maninagar police, Rajvi (name changed), comes from a well-to-do family

Hyderabad, August 10: The mystery over Infosys techie B Neelima's death is likely to continue for another week as her viscera samples reached Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) only on Wednesday. However, after a week-long probe into the mysterious death, police suspect it to be an act of suicide due to marital problems. Police are waiting for the post-mortem and forensic reports