Crime and crash

Kolkata, Jul 3: The body of a 52-year-old man, whom the BJP claimed as its worker, was found floating in a pond in Murshidabad district, triggering a fresh war of words between the saffron party and the ruling TMC. Dhormo Hazra, missing since Sunday, was found on the surface of the water body close to his village in Taldanga area of the district yesterday, a police officer said today. Police have

Mumbai, Jul 2: A 37-year-old Italian national has accused a man, who claimed to be a tour guide, of raping her in a cab in Mumbai's Juhu area on June 14, senior police said on Sunday. Police said that the victim, in her complaint filed on Friday, has stated that on the day of the incident, she had boarded a bus as part of a sightseeing tour of Mumbai. "She met the accused during the bus tour on

Dehradun, Jul 1: A bus fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand's Pauri district on Sunday morning, killing at least 40 people and injuring over a dozen, the police said. The incident occurred near Gween village in the district when the overloaded private bus, on its way to Ramnagar, fell into the 200-metre-deep gorge, Pauri Superintendent of Police Jagat Ram Joshi said. The SP, who rushed to the spot

Delhi, Jul 1: In a tragic incident this morning, bodies of 7 women and 4 men were found at a house in North Delhi's Burari area. A team of police is present at the spot and is investigating into the matter. The victims were all from the same family and most had lived in the home where they were found in Burari village in the northern part of New Delhi, said police officer Vineet Kumar. The case

Benagluru, Jun 28: A 19-year-old girl committed suicide by consuming poison yesterday on Triveni Road in Yeshwantpur in the city. Police suspect Sushmitha, a Second PUC student, took the extreme step after her boyfriend refused to marry her. She was in a relationship with 17-year-old Anant Kumar (name changed) whom she had met through a common friend. On Tuesday, Anant Kumar asked her for a

Aurangabad, Jun 28: A Deputy Commissioner of Police has been booked for allegedly raping a 22-year-old daughter of a female police constable in the Aurangabad police force. DCP (Zone II) Rahul Shrirame has been booked under Sections 376 (rape), 417 (cheating), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code after he allegedly molested the lady on the pretext

Bengaluru, Jun 27: Realtor HK Ganesh, who allegedly shot dead his wife before attempting to kill two of their three children last week, has told police that he and his spouse decided to use a firearm to execute their suicide pact after reading about a top Mumbai police officer ending his life using his service revolver last month. During questioning, Ganesh told cops that he and his wife decided

Guwahati, Jun 26: The police in Nagaon district of Assam have arrested eight persons for assaulting and confining a Muslim man and a Hindu woman for their alleged relationship. This was the third case of immoral policing in Assam since April 8 when a Garo tribal woman was “taught a lesson” for riding pillion on a Muslim man’s motorcycle at Paikan in western Assam’s Goalpara district bordering

Hyderabad, Jun 24: Fourteen women and a child were killed while seven others injured when a tractor-trolley fell into a canal in neighbouring Yadadri district on Sunday, police said. The tractor driver apparently lost control while avoiding a two-wheeler coming from the opposite direction. The tractor-trolley fell into the Musi river canal near Laxmapuram village at around 10 AM, they said. Over

New Delhi, Jun 24: An Indian Army Major has been detained from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh for his alleged involvement in the killing of another Army Major's wife in west Delhi yesterday, a senior officer said. An officer, privy to the probe, said that the accused has been detained and is being questioned. The woman's body was found with her throat slit near the Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment