An 11-year-old girl was raped by a man at North Guwahati town in Kamrup Rural district of Assam earlier this week. The accused Dimpol Baishya, who is reported to be around 30 years old, surrendered before the police this evening and has been arrested, police said. ...
04:40 AM, Jan 12, 2013
The controversial section 66A of the Information Technology Act does not infringe on freedom of speech - that's what the Centre and the Maharashtra government told the Supreme Court in their affidavits on the Bal Thackeray Facebook post controversy on Thursday. ...
10:09 PM, Jan 10, 2013
MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi was arrested on Tuesday for his hate speech after a day-long drama in Hyderabad which saw him undergoing a series of medical tests. ...
11:24 PM, Jan 08, 2013
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday after being accused of raping a deaf and mute teenaged girl at Babubagan area of the city, the police said. ...
03:54 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Police in Assam's Lakhimpur district have arrested a CRPF trooper for allegedly raping a physically challenged woman, police said on Friday. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 04, 2013
A 13-year-old boy, believed to be from India but attending school in Singapore, was arrested here after he allegedly threatened to plant bombs in a local casino resort, a media report said on Tuesday. ...
12:14 AM, Jan 02, 2013
The girl's family alleges that the police did not act on her complaint. ...
09:53 PM, Dec 27, 2012
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) member K Ripunjaya Reddy after raids on his house and that of his friends and relatives led to unearthing of disproportionate assets worth Rs 4 crore, officials said on Thursday. ...
09:41 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Rapping police for illegally detaining and arresting a woman after sunset, the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Director General of Police and City Police Commissioner to issue instructions to all police stations to not arrest or detain any woman after sunset and before sunrise. A division bench of Justices AS Oka and SS Shinde directed the DGP and CP to issue the instructions within a period of two...
11:23 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Two teenaged sisters, reportedly abandoned by their parents, were allegedly raped over a six-month period by two men at their house where they were working as maids, police said on Monday. ...
03:57 AM, Dec 25, 2012
New Delhi: The police on Friday arrested the sixth accused in connection with the gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus in the national capital. The sixth accused was arrested by the police from Aurangabad in Bihar. The Delhi Police had been conducting raids in Haryana and Bihar to trace the arrested accused, who had been absconding since the incident took place. This comes hours after the...
07:51 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: A three-year-old girl was drugged and raped by the husband of a playschool owner in Delhi, police said Thursday. The accused has been arrested. Pramod Malik, 35, was arrested on Wednesday for the incident that took place Monday in west Delhi's Sagarpur area and came to light two days later. A day after the incident, victim got ill and her family members admitted her in a hospital where...
11:52 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Mumbai: A closure report has been filed in the Palghar Facebook case in which two girls were arrested for posting comments about the bandh imposed after Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's death. On November 18, police arrested the Palghar girl who posted a comment on her Facebook questioning the shutdown after Thackeray's death on November 17 and when he was given a public cremation the next day. Her friend, who...
07:16 PM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: The accused in the 2007 Samjhauta blast will be produced in the Panchkula court on Monday. The key suspect, Ranjender Chaudhary, was arrested on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh by the National Investigation Agency. The arrest of Chouhan, believed to be a close aide of Ramji Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange, key accused in the case, came after he was asked to appear before the NIA headquarters in New Delhi...
07:13 AM, Dec 17, 2012
New York: A 56-year-old Indian man, who had called himself a "terrorist", has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for threatening to bomb a Connecticut-based company. Shaneel Jain of Rhode Island was sentenced on Friday by US District Judge Robert Chatigny in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, one year of supervised release and three months of home confinement for threatening to bomb the facilities of Z-Medica Corporation, US Attorney...
04:40 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Beijing: Police in China's Chongqing city have arrested four people for spreading doomsday rumours that the world will end on December 21 this year. Two men allegedly used a loudspeaker to proclaim the end of the world on the city's streets on Sunday while another two allegedly distributed related pamphlets. They were given 10 days of administrative detention, state-run Xinhua news agency reported quoting local officials. Rumours stating that the...
03:38 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Mumbai: A woman has been arrested by the police for allegedly throwing phenyl on a four-year-old neighbour boy, damaging his eye, during a dispute with his family in suburban Powai. The incident happened on Wednesday night at Phulenagar slum in the Filterpada area. The boy's eye was damaged after 43-year-old Asha Gawande allegedly threw phenyl at the boy following a quarrel with the boy's family, police said. ...
01:57 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Mumbai: The Palghar girls who were at the centre of a controversy related to their Facebook post after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's death, have been invited by the prestigious IIM-Ahmedabad to interact with students. "(The girls) have been invited to interact with the students and teachers of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. They will be meeting with the professors and students of the institute on December...
08:10 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Lucknow: A minor daughter of a street vender was thrown into a cauldron of hot oil in Uttar Pradesh by two men who had an argument with her father over money, police said on Monday. One accused was arrested. Saumya, 10, was left with severe burns when the two men Saturday threw her into the hot oil at Shivrajpur, on the outskirts of Kanpur, 100 km from here, police said....
01:32 AM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Two Air India employees, who were arrested earlier this year for allegedly posting messages criticising Supreme Court orders on Facebook, have now registered a complaint against a trade union member of the airline. Cabin crew members Mayank Sharma and KVJ Rao accused Sagar Karnik of misleading the police and maligning their reputation. Karnik had registered a case against the duo for posting derogatory comments and images on the...
05:14 PM, Dec 01, 2012
