Crime and crash

Dhaka, May 20: Human traffickers in Bangladesh have found an innovative method of smuggling out young women into India under which the girls along with their pimps are shown as honeymooners to cross the border "legally", said the chief of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) today. BGB Director General Maj Gen Anwar Hussain said they have rescued around 70 women and children along the Indo-Bangla borders

Amravati, May 20: City Kotwali police have booked a man for forcing a minor girl to drink liquor and then raping her. The accused, Gajanan Sawarkar and his accomplices, stopped the 14-year-old girl, a student of standard IX near Namuna locality, when she was heading towards her house. They asked the girl to accompany them. When refused, they made her drink liquor. Later, Gajanan took her to ST

Ahmedabad, May 19: Here is a case of sexual harassment at workplace which is being written in khaki. The victim and the harasser are senior cops. A woman police officer has recently complained against her superior - a senior IPS officer - for making numerous lewd calls to her everyday around midnight. She has reported the matter to the office of Gujarat's director general of police (DGP) in

Chandigarh, May 19: A first-year girl student of law at Haryana's all-women university, Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University, near Sonipat town has been hospitalised after alleged gang-rape by four youths, police said on Friday. The police registered a case of gang-rape Friday against the youths whom the girl named in her complaint. The girl resides in one of the girls' hostel on the campus. In

New Delhi, May 19: At least 16 people have been reported dead when a bus on Friday night headed to Ajmer collided with a truck and burst into flames on the Gonda-Bahraich road near Chilwaria village in Uttar Pradesh. 44 injured passengers have been rushed to the nearest hospital. The victims were mainly pilgrims on their way to Ajmer Sharif from Ambedkar Nagar. It is believed that the bus exploded

Dubai, May 18: A couple, who claimed they had an out-of-court marriage, admitted to having consensual sex in a car in Al Mamzar Park because they did not have proper accommodation. Prosecutors charged the 32-year-old Bangladeshi man, J.A., and his 21-year-old countrywoman, M.S., with having consensual sex. J.A. was also accused of unlawfully working for a different sponsor and staying in the

New Delhi, May 18: After three judges traveling together in a car in South Delhi, along with their driver, were attacked on Thursday, the lawyers at the Saket district court complex have called for strike today in protest. The president of the Saket Court Bar Association, Madan Lal, said he had called upon all Delhi advocates to stay away from work if police do not take proper action in the case

Lucknow, May 18: A teenaged girl studying in class VI of an Unnao school was allegedly raped by her class teacher who later tried to terminate her pregnancy with the help of the school cook. However, as her condition deteriorated, the girl's parents rushed her to the Queen Mary's Hospital (QMH) in the city in a critical condition. The government has ordered an inquiry into the incident and would

Srinagar, May 17: Another baby died today at the state-run GB Pant Hospital in Srinagar, taking the number of infant deaths in the state in the last two weeks to 36. According to Medical Education Minister RS Chib, a total of 358 children have died at the hospital since January 1 this year. There were protests in Srinagar over the alarming number of infant deaths after which the state government

Lucknow, May 17: In yet another evidence of the rampant criminalisation of Uttar Pradesh and their brazen functioning, suspected criminals ran a truck over a police sub-inspector in Deoria district, killing him and critically injuring a police constable, police said. The incident took place late on Wednesday night when a small police team was checking vehicles near the Phulwaria Chauraha in Deoria