Crime and crash

Sattupally (Khammam), February 23: A junior civil judge from Khammam district was booked for allegedly trying to outrage the modesty of his domestic help here on Wednesday. Following a complaint by the 24-year-old woman, a case under Section 354 ( attempt to rape) of IPC was registered against additional first class judicial magistrate Kuravath Balachander. Town deputy superintendent of police K

Chennai, February 23: Five men suspected to be behind two bank robberies in Chennai in the last one month were killed in a gun battle with the city police atVelachery in the wee hours of Thursday. Police commissioner J K Tripathy said the gun battle lasted for 15 minutes, from 1am to 1.15am, leaving two police inspectors injured and all the five suspects dead. The suspects were identified as

Karwar, February 23: Five Russian women were injured in a road accident near Haliyal in Uttara Kannada district on Tuesday. It is learnt that the vehicle by which they were travelling collided with a boulder and overturned. The accident occurred when they were returning to Goa after visiting the Tibetan colony at Mundgod. The driver of the vehicle was also injured. The injured were shifted to

Bangalore, February 22: Six persons have been arrested for allegedly running a thriving prostitution racket. Over the last two years, they'd killed three associates following differences over sharing of the spoils. Lethal weapons, including an electric cable used to commit the murders, have been recovered from the culprits. A chance arrest of four persons who were moving suspiciously at

New Delhi, February 22: A 14-year-old student of a government school at Timarpur in north Delhi is on the verge of losing his vision after being assaulted by his classmate for refusing to lend him his bicycle. The boy, who is undergoing treatment at Guru Nanak Eye Hospital, was released on Monday. Doctors have, however, said he needs a surgery to save vision in both eyes. That his parents cannot

Bhatkal, February 21: A married woman committed suicide by hanging herself using a sari in Sasihitlu in Murdeshwar in Bhatkal taluk. The victim, Netravathi Shankar Harikant (25), hailed from Ankola and had been married off to Murdeshwar. The reason for the extreme step is not known. The Murdeshwar police are investigating the case.

Pune, February 21: In yet another case of honour killing, a 65-year-old farmer from Khatav taluka in Satara district killed his 25-year-old daughter, after she announced her decision to marry a man outside their community. The incident took place in the wee hours of Sunday in Aundh locality. Hours after the killing of his daughter Aasha, Shankar Shinde surrendered before the Aundh police

Gurgaon, February 21: A Japanese national and managing director of Olympus Medical Systems committed suicide inside a children's park in a luxury high-rise apartment complex in Gurgaon's Sushant Lok on Monday. Tsutomi Omori, 49, was discovered hanging from the iron railings of a boundary wall inside a children's park in DLF The Icon apartment complex in Sector 43-Sushant Lok by a gardener at

Mumbai, February 21: The Mumbai Crime Branch today charge sheeted journalist Jigna Vora under stringent provisions of MCOCA and various other penal offences for her alleged role in the sensational murder of senior crime reporter J Dey. Vora has been charged under various sections of IPC including murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence, besides stringent provisions of Maharashtra

Mumbai, February 20: The Bombay High Court has reduced the life sentence awarded to a man - who killed his wife for not cooking food for him - to ten years in jail, saying the crime was not pre-planned. The court, in the ruling last week, observed that the murder was over a "petty reason and not pre-planned" and Kamlya Waghmare cannot be held guilty under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)