Crime and crash

Bulandshahr, June 12: An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 13-year-old cousin and his friend in a field in Nara village in the district on Monday, police said. The 13-year-old boy and his accomplice raped the girl, they said. A case under IPC Section 376 (punishment for rape) has been registered by the victim's uncle, they said, adding, the accused had been detained.

Kolkata, June 12: In the deserted New Market area, around 11.30pm on Sunday, a young girl ran for her life from a group of molesters, chased by a band of locals who had joined in for fun. Bleeding from deep cuts, breathless and panic-stricken, she saw a bus moving towards Esplanade and made a desperate leap for it. To her horror, the gang stopped the bus, pulled her out and started beating her. No

New Delhi, June 11: A dumper truck loaded with sand allegedly ran over a police official near Palla pool at Faridabad near Delhi on Monday morning. The sand mafia is being suspected to be behind the murder. Constable Mahaveer Singh, on the instructions of the Police Control Room, tried to stop the dumper truck when it ran him over, according to the police. The driver of the truck attempted to

Mumbai, June 11: For nearly half an hour, Bhavika Mehta sat with her severed leg on the railway tracks near Ambala station waiting for her family to find her, after a thief dragged her out of a running train. A Bhiwandi resident, Bhavika (24) had been on a holiday with her parents and extended family when the horrific incident took place last week. On Saturday, she was admitted to the ICCU of the

Karwar, June 11: Umesh Mahabaleshwar Kalgutkar was murdered at Hotegali village in Karwar on Saturday by his neighbour Gopinath Ratnakar Paduvalkar. According to the police, Umesh had planned to build a borewell which Gopinath had opposed. On Saturday night, Gopinath deliberately hit Umesh's two-wheeler with his car and later thrashed him with a wooden stick. Umesh suffered multiple fractures and

Mandya, Jun 11: Prevalence of child marriage in the district despite the formulation of numerous stringent laws and social schemes for women empowerment has become a cause of concern. According to the Women and Child Development Department, 62 cases of child marriages were reported between April 2011 and April 2012. The Department officials in association with Birds, a non-governmental

Bangalore, June 11: A BPO employee hung herself in her room at a PG in Hebbal on Sunday afternoon. The victim has been identified as Sheikh Hasina, 21, a native of Madanapalle in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. According to the police, Hasina had quarreled with her room-mate, Afsar Kousar. The problem began after Hasina, faced with urgent financial needs, borrowed Kousar’s ATM card a month ago to

Karimganj, June 10: A seven year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Assam's Cachar district, police said on Sunday. The girl was lured to his house by her neighbour, a driver by profession, when she was playing outside her home at Sonai area and allegedly raped her on Saturday, the police said. The girl's father filed an FIR at Sonai Police station and a search has been launched to

Hyderabad, June 10: Five persons, including two women and an alleged drug peddler were arrested and several types of drugs seized from their possession after the police busted an alleged rave party at an apartment in the upscale Banjara Hills here. The incident took place last night when a police team raided the rave party last night and seized 14 grams of different drugs including cocaine, 24 LSD

Chandigarh, June 10: It is not just in the Rohtak shelter home where its intimates were abused and exploitated. The Haryana government is now investigating at least four shelters for alleged abuse and torture of inmates. But the Haryana government is busy passing the buck for its oversight that led to owner of the Rohtak Shelter home Jaswanti Devi being awarded the first Indira Gandhi Nari Shakti