Crime and crash

Bhind, Sept 12: A 50-year-old head constable died on Wednesday after he was attacked by an arrested person in an escape bid at a police station here in Madhya Pradesh, an official said. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the kin of the deceased. The accused, Vishnu Rajawat (25), attacked two policemen with a pick-axe at the Umri police station Sunday

Bhopal, Sept 12: During the day Adesh Khamra stitched clothes, hunched over his sewing machine in a small shop on the fringes of Bhopal. In the night, as he tossed in bed, consumed by visions of deadly crimes that he wanted to commit, he perhaps saw himself switching the needle for an axe, the thread into a hangman's noose. Then the killings started. Sometime around 2010. The first one in Amravati

Kochi, Sept 12: The police affidavit in the Kerala nun rape case has revealed that the victim was repeatedly raped by the Bishop of Jalandhar, Franco Mulakkal. The affidavit, dated August 10, 2018, was filed in the Kerala High Court. It stated, "During the course of the investigation so far conducted and the available evidences collected so far, it is revealed that the accused Bishop Franco

Hyderabad, Sept 11: In one of the goriest accident in the history of State Road Transport Corporation, 52 passengers including 32 women and four children, died and 30 others were injured when a Telangana Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus belonging to Jagitial depot, fell into a gorge on Tuesday morning. The bus which was fully packed with around 86 passengers were coming down from Kondagattu

Belagavi, Sep 11: Two teen-aged School boys drowned in a lake near Hindalga village, near here and their bodies were recovered on Monday evening. Police said that, the victims studying in 9th Class, identified as Amsha Shinde (15) and Rohan Kurade (15), after School hours went to the lake on Saturday for swimming near Kalmeswar temple Hindalga and were caught under current in the lake which was

Hyderabad, Sept 10: A metropolitan court here sentenced two terrorists convicted in the 2007 twin blasts case to death and another to life imprisonment on Monday. Two powerful explosions had ripped through a popular eatery and an open-air theatre here on August 25, 2007, killing 44 people and wounding 68. On September 4, Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge (in-charge) T Srinivas Rao had

Chandigarh, Sept 10: A woman head constable with Haryana Police has accused a man and his brother, who too is a head constable, of raping and blackmailing her, an official said on Sunday. Following the rape case being filed at women police station, Palwal on Saturday, a probe was launched, Palwal SP, Waseem Akram said. However, he denied the rumours that the victim was raped inside a police

Mumbai, Sept 10: The Mumbai Police on Sunday arrested a 20-year-old labourer who confessed to murdering HDFC Vice President Siddharth Sanghvi after he left the office on Wednesday. The accused also told the police that after dumping Sanghvi’s body, he took his car to Navi Mumbai. The arrested accused, according to the reports, is one of the four men who was hired to kill the HDFC VP. The police

Chennai, Sept 9: The AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu Sunday decided to recommend to the state Governor Banwarilal Purohit, the release of all seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the state cabinet which met here under Chief Minister K Palaniswami's leadership, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar told reporters. It decided to recommend to

Dubai, Sept 9: The prosecutors are calling for a stiff penalty to be inflicted on a construction worker who is facing murder charge at a Dubai court after allegedly stabbing his roommate to death under the influence of alcohol. Public prosecution records show that on March 30, in Al Qusais, the 37-year-old Indian worker fatally stabbed the victim in his room. He has been charged with murder and