Crime and crash

New Delhi, Jun 18: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought a report over the death of a woman constable who was burnt alive allegedly by another policeman in Kerala last week. Expressing "deep concern and shock" over the incident, the NCW has taken up the matter with the Kerala police and sought a detailed report from them. The woman, Soumya Pushpakaran, 34, was allegedly hacked and set

Badaun, Jun 18: A 24-year old rape victim in Badaun hanged herself to death a couple of hours after FIR was registered against the alleged rapists. Her body was found hanging at her Badaun residence on Sunday. Police have claimed to have recovered a suicide note. Badaun Senior Superintendent of Police Ashok Tripathi suspended the station house officer on the charges of negligence. The victim was

Mumbai, Jun 18: A Kerala CPM leader's son has been booked on charges of rape and cheating following a complaint filed by a woman in Mumbai, police said on Tuesday. The 33-year-old woman in her complaint alleged that Binoy Vinodini Balakrishnan (37), the son of CPM's Kerala unit secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, sexually assaulted her on the pretext of marriage, he said. The complainant also said

Kolkata, Jun 17: A live stunt meant to surprise people turned fatal as the magician performing the act reportedly drowned in river Ganges here on Sunday, police said. Chanchal Lahiri, in an attempt to show his skills, entered the water with his arms and legs tied. He, however, could not come out of the river, they said. "He tied his legs and hands with chains and went into the river with the help

Ahmednagar, Jun 15: A teenager was killed after accidentally pressing the trigger of a country-made pistol, while shooting a clip for the social video app TikTok in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, police said on Thursday, 13 June. Pratik Wadekar (17) and his relatives were posing for a TikTok video with a country-made pistol one of his relatives had brought, police said. Pratik died on the spot

Chennai, Jun 14: Sudha seldom thought about the pills she took to ease her period pains during 10-hour shifts as a seamstress in southern India. She could not afford to let anything interrupt her work and cut her wages so she sought medicine from a factory supervisor. “They are depressing days and the pills helped,” said the factory worker in Tamil Nadu, India’s southern textile hub. But by the

Sangrur, Jun 11: The two-year-old boy who was pulled out on Tuesday from a 150-foot-deep abandoned borewell in a village in Punjab's Sangrur district after six days was declared dead. The child, Fatehveer Singh, was brought to the PGI hospital in Chandigarh, some 130 km from the accident spot, soon after he was retrieved from the well, officials said. However, there is no official confirmation

Panaji, Jun 8: A 30-year-old woman was allegedly murdered in Sanguem taluka of South Goa and two persons were arrested in this connection, police said on Saturday. The body of the victim, Valancia Fernandes, was recovered from a forest area of a village on Friday morning and the two accused- Shailesh Velip (25) and another person- were arrested hours later, police said. According to police, Velip

Mahendragarh, Jun 8: In a horrifying incident, a woman was caught beating her elderly mother-in-law on camera in Niwaz Nagar village of Haryana's Mahendragarh district. The incident was recorded on camera by a girl from the neighbourhood, a video of which later went viral. This brutality is done by a lady to his mother in law in my village niwajnagar(naranul,haryana).Old lady is ill and she can't

New Delhi, Jun 8: The Delhi High Court has upheld the acquittal of a man by a trial court in a rape case, saying the woman's testimony was "untrustworthy", full on contradictions and she had called him 529 times between the date of alleged rape and the filing of the complaint. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said it was in agreement with the trial court's view that the