Crime and crash

Mumbai, Sept 17: The 42-year-old director of a vedic school in Parbhani district was arrested and two juvenile students were detained for the alleged assault and ragging of two minor students, the police said on Sunday. The victims, in the age group of 9 to 10 years, were allegedly ragged and their private parts were tied with manja (string) by the accused, Parbhani’s deputy superintendent of

New Delhi, Sept 16: The National Commission for Women stepped in Saturday as an army man and two others accused of raping a woman in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district continued to evade arrest. A top commander said the Army will help the police in the probe. The Haryana police set up a special investigation team and announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to their arrest. The victim

Mysuru, Sept 15: City Police have arrested a medical Superintendent for sexually harassing his daughter. Police said on Saturday that the accused has been identified as Dr Imtiaz Ahmed Khan, 58, Medical Superintendent at ESI Hospital in Mandya. He was allegedly harassing his daughter at his residence on MG Road in Udayagiri for the last seven years. He is also accused of assaulting his wife

Imphal, Sept 15: A man has been allegedly lynched in Imphal West district of Manipur on suspicion of stealing vehicles, a senior police officer said. Five persons have been arrested in the matter, he said. Two associates of the victim managed to escape from the scene, the officer said. The incident took place at Thouroijam Awang Leikai area on Thursday, Imphal West Superintendent of Police (SP)

Bengaluru, Sep 14: Two drug peddlers, one from Cango and another from Sudan, were nabbed and two KG ganja were seized from them by Central Bureau Women and Narcotic Drug squad of the city police. Police said on Friday that, Kevin, native of Kinshasa, Cango, was nabbed while selling the banned narcotic to known customers and one KG ganja, one mobile phone, plastic covers used for packing the drug

New Delhi, Sept 14: Self-styled godman Ashu Maharaj, who previously had the name Asif Khan, was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly raping a woman and her minor daughter at his ashram in Delhi, police said. His son Samar Khan was also detained by the Crime Branch for raping the woman, Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) Rajiv Ranjan said. The two accused were questioned for hours in

Chennai, Sept 14: A local DMK functionary allegedly thrashed a woman at a beauty parlour with a video of the incident going viral, leading to his arrest and the party sacking him from primary membership. In the short video which went viral Thursday, the man clad in a white shirt and dhoti is seen repeatedly kicking the woman and pushing her down in the parlour in Perambalur, about 300 km from here

Rewari: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by four to five people at Kanina in Haryana's Mahendergarh district, police said on Thursday. She was allegedly kidnapped on Wednesday by the accused who arrived in a car and taken to a secluded place where she was gang-raped after being offered a drink laced with sedatives, they said. The accused later left her near a bus stop in Kanina

Muzaffarnagar, Sept 14: A minor girl was allegedly raped by her father for six months in Budhana town of Uttar Pradesh`s Muzaffarnagar district. The matter came to light, after the girl`s mother caught the accused in the act. After being exposed, the accused also threatened the mother-daughter duo. Though unfazed of the consequences the victim along with her mother reached out to the police for

Bengaluru, Sept 13: CCB Police have nabbed a drug peddler, native of Nigeria, and seized from him 80 gram Cocaine worth about Rs 8,50,000. Police said that the arrested was identified as Henry Chigbo, Negeria. Preliminary investigation has revealed that he was selling the banned drug to students and public illegally. Besides Cocaine, the police have also seized One scooter, 3 mobile phones, Cash