Crime and crash

Muzaffarnagar, Apr 18: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her father in Shamli district after her mother left their house following an argument over dowry, the police said. The incident occurred in Kairana town yesterday. The mother filed a complaint with the police alleging that her husband, Imran, killed their daughter, Palak, after she left their house following an argument over

New Delhi, Apr 17: An 18-year-old girl has lodged a complaint against her parents, who allegedly took a bribe from one of her rapists to settle the case. The parents physically tortured their daughter and forced her to withdraw her statement against her two rapists in court. According to the girl, she was raped by two men in 2017, after which the accused were arrested. “They had kidnapped me after

Amidst nationwide outrage over the brutal gang-rape and murder of a minor girl in a Kashmiri temple, another similar incident has come to light from Gujarat's Surat after the police and doctors confirmed rape on girl who was found dead with 86 injury marks earlier this month. On April 6, a girl’s brutalised body was discovered by a passerby lying in bushes in Surat’s Bhestan locality. Postmortem

New Delhi, Apr 15: 19-year-old girl from Delhi's Sultanpuri accused her male friend of confining her in a room where he repeatedly raped and assaulted her. The girl later fled the spot and reached home, where she disclosed her ordeal to her parents, who then approached the police. According to the complaint, the girl, a resident of Sultanpuri, came in contact with the accused, after which the two

New Delhi, Apr 13: Four members of a family died after a fire broke out in a four-storey building in northwest Delhi's Kohat Enclave due to short circuit. A call was received at 2.48 am about a fire in the parking area and 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The fire was doused by around 4 am, an official from the Delhi Fire Service was quoted as saying by news agency. Meanwhile, initial

New Delhi, Apr 12: A Pakistani singer was shot dead at a crowded musical event in Sindh province. Samina Samoon, 24, was performing in Kanga village on Tuesday evening. A video clip of Samina, who was six months pregnant, surfaced two days after the murder in public glare. Pakistani media reports say, a man, identified as Tarique Ahmed Jatoi, asked Samina to stand and sing but she reportedly

Lucknow, Apr 11: Two days after the father of a woman, who alleged rape by a BJP MLA, died in custody in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, the politician's wife on Wednesday demanded a narco test on her husband and the survivor. The 18-year-old woman, who had tried to kill herself outside the chief minister's house here, on the other hand alleged that she had been confined to a hotel room by the

Shahjahanpur (UP), Apr 10: Both hands of a woman were fractured by her husband and in-laws in a village here allegedly for giving birth to three daughters and not bearing a male child in eight years of married life, police said. "The woman has suffered serious injuries and we are waiting for the medical report. Action will be taken against the suspects," Superintendent of Police (Rural) Subhash

Lucknow, Apr 10: Police today arrested Atul Singh, the brother of a BJP MLA, in connection with the gangrape of an 18-year-old woman in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh and the custodial death of the victim's father, and a special investigation team (SIT) was formed to probe the matters. "The SIT will go into the entire gamut of issues involved in the incident," ADG (Law and Order) Anand Kumar told a press

Shimla, Apr 9: At least 27 people, including 24 schoolchildren, were killed as a private school bus veered off the road and went 200 feet down into a gorge at Malakwal in Nurpur in Kangra district of Himachal Pradeshon Monday evening. Around 13 students from classes I to V died on the spot and rest others succumbed to their injuries in the Nurpur hospital. The driver of the bus and two school