Crime and crash

Mumbai, June 22: After being accused of infidelity by her husband, a 23-year-old Charkop resident drowned her two-year-old daughter in the sea before committing suicide six days ago. The Charkop police arrested her husband and in-laws of the woman yesterday, after her parents claimed that she had committed suicide due to their torture. On June 14, the woman, identified as Ranjana Dayal had left

Jaisalmer, Jun 21: In an alarming trend, authorities here have found a series of suspected cases of newborn girls being starved to death and deprived of medicines by parents. Rajasthan has one of the most skewed sex ratios in India and female infanticide is rampant in the state. Police in this desert district said today that four suspected cases of female infanticide have been reported in a span

New Delhi, June 21: A 30-year-old married businessman, who wanted to get rid of his girlfriend, allegedly strangled her, stuffed her body in a suitcase and took it to Haryana where he burnt it, police said. However, his return to his flat to wipe out evidence proved to be his undoing. A neighbour had spotted him when he was leaving to dump the body and informed the police. They were waiting for

Davangere, June 20: The bodies of three boys were found in a tank at Singatagere village of Honnali taluk on Tuesday morning. The villagers ruled out the possibility of the boys having drowned and suspected human sacrifice by miscreants in search of a hidden treasure. Nagaraj, 11, Halesh, 10 and Basavaraj, 8 – all students of the Singatagere government school – went missing on Sunday after 5 pm

Tumkur, June 19: A 22-year-old man raped a three-and-half-year-old girl at Anapanahalli near Altur of Tiptur taluk on Sunday. The family of the accused is said to have tried to hush up the case through a compromise with the girl’s family. The incident came to light on Tuesday. The accused, a neighbour of the child, used to take her to his house frequently on the pretext of playing with her. On

Jaisalmer, June 19: The father of a baby girl, who died in suspicious circumstances, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days. Police claim that Deen Singh alias Dileep Singh, the father of the girl, deliberately denied her treatment, which led to her death. According to the local medical authorities, members of some communities, infamous for killing baby girls, have now found a new

Bangalore, June 19: French Consulate official, Pascal Mazurier, accused of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, was arrested in Bangalore on Tuesday, police said. The arrest comes a day after the Ministry of Home Affairs clarified to the city police that the accused did not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and action can be taken as per law. High Grounds Police, under the jurisdiction of

Abu Dhabi, June 19: Ajman police and Indian social workers are in a Catch-22 situation about the case of a young Indian carpenter who died six months ago but whose dead body has been lying unclaimed in the Ajman police morgue since then. It seems that his wife and relatives may not be even aware of what happened to the youngster from Kolkata. Ranjit Mondal (26), married to Sunita Mandol from

Bangalore, June 19: The 47-year-old daughter of former Congress MP from Koppal H G Ramulu, who was in the City to visit her daughter, was kidnapped from Jayanagar Shopping Complex on Monday evening. The woman, Vishnuvandana, is married to Ravikumar, a hotelier in Hyderabad. The couple had come to the City two days ago to visit their daughter, who is married to Surekumar. Vishnuvandana’s cousin

Bangalore, June 19: The desperate efforts of a software engineer to escape justice after fatally striking down a pedestrian came to an end when the police arrested him early on Monday morning. Rohan, 28, a resident of Mantri Tranquil apartment in Gubbalala in the KS?Layout traffic police limits was drunk when he ran over a pedestrian, Basavaraju, 31, on Sunday while returning home, said KS?Layout