Crime and crash

Lucknow, Sept 23: BJP MLA Surendra Singh, known for his controversial behaviour, has been booked for allegedly abusing and threatening a government official here. The action was taken after an official in the state electricity department submitted a written complaint against the lawmaker. A case has been registered on the basis of the complaint and investigations are on, the police said, adding

Idukki, Sept 22: A 20-year-old jilted lover allegedly thrashed and injured his classmate after she rejected his proposal, following which police registered a case against him. The incident occurred on September 18, police said. The boy and his classmate are pursuing Bachelors in Computer Application (BCA) at a local college here and were close from the first year onwards. However, the girl later

Kochi, Sept 20: A 70-year old Catholic priest allegedly molested three minor girls when they visited him to seek blessings at his church office in Chendamangalam in Ernakulam district last month, the police said on Friday. The priest, George Padayatty, vicar of a Syrian Catholic Church in Chendamangalam, has been absconding after a case was registered against him in connection with the incident

New Delhi, Sept 20: Bharatiya Janata Party's Mehrauli district chief Azad Singh was seen slapping his wife, an ex-South Delhi mayor, at the party's Delhi office right after a poll-preparedness meeting with senior leader Prakash Javadekar on Thursday. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media. Party leaders said Singh has filed for divorce from his wife. The fight happened as soon as

Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), Sept 19: A woman and her three-month-old daughter died after they were allegedly burnt alive by her in-laws over demand of dowry in Rampur`s Hajipura mohalla on Wednesday morning. Mohammad Javed, the brother of the victim, said that his sister was married four years ago. "She had a 3-year-old son and daughter 3-month-old daughter. She was living in her father`s house after

New Delhi, Sept 14: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered 12 new cases against Chhota Rajan, gangster Bharat Nepali, his close aide and others. The fresh cases have been registered under charges of murder, extortion, kidnapping and possession of illegal weapons among others. These cases are part of the 71 cases transferred from Mumbai Police to CBI. In August this year, a Mumbai

Siddharthnagar, Sept 13: A man riding a motorcycle allegedly in an inebriated condition was assaulted by two policemen here during an inspection of vehicle documents, prompting their suspension by the department, officials said on Friday. The incident took place on September 10, the day of Muharram, when the sub-inspector and the head constable concerned were on duty in Sakarpar area under

Chennai, Sept 13: Twenty-three-year-old Subashree working in a software company was run over by a water tanker as she fell down on the road when an illegal life size hoarding put up by a ruling AIADMK functionary fell on her on Thursday. Even though the Madras High Court had banned hoardings in public places, an AIADMK party official C. Jayagopal had put up the banner at the centre of the busy

New Delhi, Sept 11: The 32-year-old man, who was apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly impersonating an octogenarian passenger by using a fake passport, wanted to go to the US for employment, police said on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Jayesh Patel (32), a resident of Ahmedabad in Gujarat was arrested on Sunday, they said. He had coloured his hair and beard white and arrived in a

Jaipur, Sept 11: A man in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district got himself murdered so that his family members could claim ₹50 lakh insurance he had bought and spend the rest of their life in comfort. Balbir Kharol (38), a moneylender, took the bizarre decision not because he was debt-ridden, but because he failed to recover money from people who had taken loans from him, according to police. The two