Crime and crash

Bangalore, August 8: Parents of a 13-year-old rape victim in the City have been socially ostracised for refusing to marry their daughter off to the accused, so the case against him can be withdrawn. Tormented by pressure from all quarters, the parents, Syed Kareem and Irshad Begum of Ramachandrapuram have written to the Karnataka High Court chief justice and the Karnataka State Commission of

Chandigarh, August 6: Fiza alias Anuradha Bali, the ex-wife of the former Haryana deputy chief minister, Chander Mohan, was found dead at her Chandigarh home on Monday. Fiza allegedly committed suicide and the highly-decomposed body was found on her bed. No suicide note was recovered from the spot. DSP Mohali city DS Mann said that it was Fiza's uncle who informed them of the suicide. "Fiza's

New Delhi, August 5: A 23-year-old former air hostess with the domestic MDLR airlines has committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Ashok Vihar in North-West Delhi. According to the police, a suicide note was found in Deepika Sharma's apartment that blames the chairman of the MDLR airlines Gopal Kanda who is also the Minister of State (MoS) in the Home Ministry in the Haryana

Birbhum, August 5: Two women teachers were arrested on Saturday for allegedly strip searching a girl student on the suspicion that she had stolen money, at Kaligati Smriti Nari Siksha Niketan in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The girl, a student of class-XI, filed a complaint with the police that two teachers, Chaitali Gupta and Lipika Saha, took her to the teachers' room yesterday and strip

Patna, August 4: Ten of the 24 girl students of a government residential school in Bihar, who went missing five years ago, were pushed into flesh trade, police said Saturday. Shivdeep W. Lande, the Araria district superintendent of police, said a police team had found that 10 of the 24 missing students of the Kasturba Gandhi Residential School in Simraha had been pushed into flesh trade. "I was

London, August 4: The girl was murdered by her Pakistani parents for her Western ways. And it was her little sister who bravely told jurors how her mother and father suffocated the 17-year-old with a plastic bag - gripping testimony that led to her parents' murder conviction on Friday. Justice Roderick Evans sentenced Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, to life in prison for killing their

Hyderabad, July 2: A woman employee of IT major Infosys has died reportedly after falling off a multi-level parking lot inside the company's campus in Hyderabad late on Monday night. The police is investigating whether she jumped from the building or was pushed. Her family has alleged foul play. Neelima Yeruva, 27, was found near the parking lot at 10.30 pm last night by a security guard, the

Santabommali (Srikakulam), July 30: A 20-year old girl, who came to Bhavanapadu beach in Santabommali mandal with her 22-year-old boyfriend, was stripped and molested by two youths. The accused were taken into custody by the Naupada police on Sunday morning. The victims, believed to be engineering students, came to the beach, 80 km from Srikakulam, on Saturday to spend some time together. The

Nagpur, July 29: After being raped by three men in December last year and sold thrice in a span of three months earlier this year, 26-year-old Sangeeta (name changed), who is now six months pregnant, had given up all hopes of returning to normal life. However, Rajaram, her second buyer, who had paid Rs 2 lakhs, turned out to be a Good Samaritan as he brought her back to Nagpur from Ujjain, where

New Delhi, July 29: A teacher at a private school in Bangalore has been accused of sexually abusing several of his female students. The Hindi teacher who began teaching just a month ago, is accused of passing lewd remarks at class IX students and physically abusing them. The victims allege he threatened to fail them in their exams if they revealed his conduct. The incident came to light after two