Crime and crash

Mysore, March 14: A 27-year-old woman was killed, reportedly by her brother, in the Nazarbad area of the city on Tuesday for marrying outside her caste. Police are looking for the suspect, Mahadeva. The killing of Shruti comes barely three months after a man hanged his daughter in Mandya for falling in love with a Dalit, raising concern that the shameful practice of honour killings may be showing

Bangalore, March 13: Nagaraj hardly knew he would depart from the world without having a glimpse of his newborn son. Hours after he told his relatives that he would be leaving for Deodurg to see his son, Nagaraj was lying dead in Bowring Hospital. A lone earning member of his family, Nagaraj was married to Manjula a year ago. He had migrated to City in search of livelihood four months ago. He had

London, March 13: A whopping majority of women in Britain - over 80 percent - do not report rape or sexual assault to police, a study has said. In many cases, the incidents are not reported because women say have little confidence that their attacker would be brought to justice, the Daily Telegraph reported citing the survey by parenting website Mumsnet. Among the 1,600 women respondents, the poll

Gurgaon, March 13: In yet another assault on a woman near a pub in Gurgaon, a 23-year-old mother was allegedly gangraped by seven men after being abducted from outside the Sahara Mall on M G Road at 2.30 am on Monday. The victim, who reportedly works in a pub at the mall, has alleged that the accused abducted her after stopping the radio taxi she and her 15-year-old brother had hired to return

Raipur, March 12: Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Rahul Sharma today allegedly shot himself dead with his service revolver, police said here. A 2002-batch IPS officer, Sharma (37) allegedly shot himself in the head inside the toilet of Police Officer's Mess, where he was staying, they said. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. Officials said it was not immediately

Mumbai, March 12: A 38-year-old man was arrested by the Saki Naka police on Saturday for murdering his elder sister by thrashing her at his residence in Chandivli. The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon, following which the victim was hospitalized and died on Friday. The police said the accused, Pandhari Rasam, was undergoing psychiatric treatment for mental illness. His sister, Mandakini

Bhopal, March 12: Cracking down on the mining mafia behind a slew of attacks on police and civic officials, Madhya Pradesh police on Sunday arrested Kuber Singh, a former dacoit who is the lynchpin of the sand mafia, and Morena district's ex-BJP chief Hamir Singh Patel, who assaulted officials for impounding tractor-trolleys used in quarrying stone. Kuber and his gang had fired on a team of civil

New Delhi/Faridabad, March 11: A woman and her daughter were allegedly paraded naked inside their village by neighbours on Holi. Their fault: the neighbours believed that her family had "conspired" and moved court, forcing them to cancel their daughter's wedding. The incident occurred at the Raipur Kala village near Ballabhgarh on March 8. On the complaint of the victim, the police have registered

Jhajjar/Gurgaon, March 11: Three criminals were killed and four others, including two policemen, were injured when a police van transporting under-trials was attacked on the Gurgaon-Jhajjar Road on Saturday. The van was returning to Gurgaon after producing the party at a Rohtak court. The attackers were from a rival gang. Police said the van was rammed by a truck around 3.45pm, forcing it to a

Sharjah, March 11: The bodies of the two Bangladeshi teenage cousins who drowned on Thursday off the beach near Coral Beach Hotel in Sharjah were recovered on Saturday. The duo went along with four friends to swim in an area where swimming is prohibited. The police said that the bodies were found on Saturday after great efforts made by the marine rescue units, coast guards and rescue missions