Crime and crash

Bangalore, May 6: An IPS probationer escaped death when a gang of smugglers tried to mow him down. Sunil Kumar Reddy , IPS, posted at the Rippenpet police station in Hosanagar taluk of Shimoga district , was injured in the smugglers' attack late Friday night near Balur village . On a tip-off that the smugglers were carting sandalwood and rosewood out of the forest , Reddy rushed to the village

Mumbai, May 6: A nude photo of his wife in his cousin's mobile phone told him enough to gather his friends, orchestrate a plot involving Holi, bhang and consequent inebriation, and bludgeon his cousin to death, before dumping his body in the murky waters of the Malwani creek. On Thursday, three young men were arrested on charges of murdering a 21-year-old man and dumping his body in the creek. The

Kozhikode, May 5: In a shocking incident in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, former Kerala CPM leader T P Chandrasekharan, who was expelled from the party a few years back, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants. The incident took place at Vallikkad in Kozhikode district on Friday night. Chandrasekharan, 50, was riding a bike when he was attacked by the assailants. The assailants first

Jaipur, May 5: A paralysed pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter were burnt alive when their thatched hut accidentally caught fire in Jaipur on Friday, police said. Manju Devi, 25, was preparing tea on a stove when the fire broke out in the hut in the city's Shiprapath area around 7.30 am. Manju Devi and her daughter Laxmi died in the blaze, police said, adding that her husband was out for

Bangalore, May 5: A mere threat turned into tragedy. Haisnam Jakoi, a 22-year-old engineering student, died while trying to stage a suicide drama in front of his girlfriend, Seraphina (19). The plastic chair he was standing on gave way, leaving him dangling from the ceiling fan at his Bannerghatta Road flat here on Thursday. Haisnam and Seraphina, both from Imphal, had been dating for three years

Nagpur May 5: A 19-year-old college student from Bhayander faked her own kidnapping, travelled 800km to Nagpur and landed up at the doorstep of her 'Facebook friend', whom she had met online and became obsessed with. The male friend, 21-year-old Ravi (name changed), who was shocked to see the girl in his hometown, and escorted her to Mumbai, but she simply followed him back to Nagpur. Luckily for

Ghaziabad, May 4: A Delhi girl was allegedly gang-raped by three persons in basement of a shopping mall in Indirapuram area of Ghaziabad district, police said today. The girl, who came to Mahagun mall of Indirapuram last night, was allegedly raped in an SUV parked inside the basement, Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Kumar said. Two of the accused have been arrested, the SSP said. "It

Bangalore, May 4: Close on the heels of a Manipuri student who was found dead in "mysterious circumstances" in his college hostel last month, another student from the northeastern state allegedly committed suicide by hanging. The deceased was identified as Jackio Heisnam (23), a second year student of Mechanical Engineering in Bangalore Institute of Engineering in Chandapura taluk in Bangalore

Mumbai, May 4: BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son Ashwin got into a brawl after he was refused a drink during curfew hours in a Mumbai pubearly Tuesday. He was arrested for punching and kicking a police constable. Later, he was produced in court and released on bail. Ashwin, 40, and his friend, Avi Mukharjee, 35, went to the pub on the fourth floor of a commercial building in Bandra (W). The bar

Mumbai, May 4: Planning when to start a family cannot be treated as cruelty, said the Bombay high court on Thursday, upholding the family court's dismissal of a man's divorce plea. An HC division bench of judges P B Majmudar and Anoop Mohta was hearing a petition by Pradeep Bapat (30), who said that during their honeymoon his wife Prerna (26) refused to have sex unless he wore a condom and