
Hyderabad: An Indian Revenue Service officer and three others, including an inspector, were on Wednesday booked in connection with alleged manhandling of a woman here.
IRS officer Veerbhadram, suspended inspector P Srinivas Reddy and two others were booked under relevant sections of the IPC on a complaint lodged by the woman, a Government employee, over the incident, whose footage was broadcast by a local TV channel, they said.
Reddy, attached to Balanagar Police station, was present at the time of the incident and was subsequently suspended. On May 10, Cyberabad Police chief had ordered an inquiry after the footage was aired. However, it is still not clear when and where the incident took place....
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08:08 AM, May 23, 2013

Lucknow: A man killed his three children on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh and committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a speeding bus, police said. He suspected his wife to be in an illicit relation with one of his relatives. The gory incident took place in the Robertsganj area of Sonebhadra district, over 400 km from Lucknow, when on pretext of taking them out for a treat Babulal first...

03:01 AM, May 23, 2013

Jabalpur: A software engineer from Hyderabad, who had come to Jabalpur, to attend a hearing in the family court was allegedly abducted and gangraped, police said on Wednesday. According to the woman's complaint, on Tuesday night when she was coming from Katni accompanied by a friend, who went ahead of her while talking on his mobile, two youths on motorcycle took her to a deserted place and gangraped her until...

11:56 PM, May 22, 2013

New Delhi: There is no "straight link" between bookie Ramesh Vyas and actor Vindoo Dara Singh arrested by Mumbai Police in the IPL spot-fixing scandal unearthed by their counterparts in the capital, Delhi Police said on Wednesday. A senior official of Delhi Police's Special Cell said the case of their Mumbai counterparts have nothing to do with theirs in which 18 people, including three IPL players, were arrested. "There are...

08:26 PM, May 22, 2013

Mumbai: A local court on Wednesday remanded six bookies, associated with IPL betting syndicate, in judicial custody till June 5 after rejecting the plea of the Mumbai crime branch which sought their remand and reprimanding it for deficient probe in the case. "Despite ample opportunities provided, the investigating officer has not pointed out who has been cheated and why," Additional Metropolitan Magistrate MN Saleem observed, apparently referring to cheating and...

07:42 PM, May 22, 2013

Ghaziabad: A businessman and six members of his family, including his three grandchildren, were found killed in their house in a densely populated locality here Wednesday, police said. Satish Goel (62), his wife Manju (60), son Sachin (40), daughter-in-law Rekha (38), and grandchildren Medha (13), Honey (11) and Aman were found killed, said a police official who visited the spot in this suburb of the national capital. "The entire house...

02:46 PM, May 22, 2013

Balrampur: A seven-year-old girl was killed allegedly by her stepmother, who threw her body into a well in Haraiya area, police said on Wednesday. Shanti, a student of standard III, went missing on May 19 from Dharmpur village, they said. During police interrogation last evening, her stepmother Krishnawati allegedly confessed that she strangled the girl, sealed her body in a sack and dumped it in the well, they said. The...

11:59 AM, May 22, 2013

Bareilly: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a farmhouse owner and his domestic help in Bhojipura area, police sources said on Wednesday. The minor was raped by Pappu and his domestic help Prem Shanker on Tuesday while she was grazing cattle along with her mother, they said. Shanker was nabbed by local residents when the girl's mother raised an alarm and was thrashed before being handed over to the...

11:25 AM, May 22, 2013

Lucknow: A 17-year-old minor girl in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit is battling for her life after three young men allegedly set her on fire for resisting an attempt to molest her on Monday evening. The girl has been admitted in the hospital in a very serious condition and is undergoing treatment. The heinous crime took place on Monday night when three youths tried to sexually harass the girl. When the girl...

11:09 AM, May 22, 2013

Washington: In the face of continued violence against Sikhs, the bipartisan American Congressional Sikh Caucus asked the Department of Justice to include an anti-Sikh hate crime category on the Hate Crime Incident Report. "American Sikhs experience bigotry at all ages, from school-yard bullying to horrific violence. Despite this, an anti-Sikh category has not been added to Form 1-699. Including an anti-Sikh category is an important step in confronting violent hate...

08:25 AM, May 22, 2013

Srinagar: A self-styled "religious preacher" was arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district for repeated sexual exploitation of four minor girls at an institute he ran, police said on Tuesday. "Police in Badgam district received a joint complaint by four minor girls who were reading in an institute claiming religious preaching headed by Gulzar Ahmed Bhat, son of Ghulam Qadir Bhat, resident of Latter Chadur (Shamasabad) Khan Sahib. The minor...

05:15 AM, May 22, 2013

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday refuted the allegations of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case in a special court that the victim was not assaulted by iron rods and she died before being taken to Singapore. "It is wrong to suggest that I had not taken the opinion of the doctors during the lifetime of the victim, despite various opportunities, as the said weapons were allegedly...

10:14 PM, May 21, 2013

Bundi: Organisations across the country running shelter homes for girls will soon be subjected to tight monitoring to ensure that no crime or abuse is committed at such facilities, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has said. NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma told reporters that she will write to the directors general of police of all states and other officials concerned to "initiate an inquiry into the functioning of shelter homes...

07:42 PM, May 21, 2013

New Delhi: Ten years after a sexual harassment row, Phaneesh Murthy is back in the spotlight for harassment again. The 49-year-old IT industry veteran was sacked as President and CEO of iGATE - the California-based company he helped found. iGATE management says, "The board's decision was made as a result of an investigation by outside legal counsel, engaged by the board, of the facts and circumstances surrounding a relationship Mr...

07:40 PM, May 21, 2013

Lucknow: A teenaged girl was allegedly set ablaze by three youths after she objected to eve-teasing in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night at Mohammad Beni Chowdhury area when the 17-year-old girl resisted the eve-teasing by three youths - Munna, Adnan and Amar, after which they poured kerosene on her and set her on fire, the police said. The girl...

07:29 PM, May 21, 2013

Melbourne: Four Indian-origin men accused of gangraping a young girl today appeared in a court in New Zealand. The men - Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26 - are defending the charges of raping the girl in April 2011, Fairfax NZ News reported. The woman, then aged 19, was raped on the day of the famous racing event in Hamilton, she said during...

07:18 PM, May 21, 2013

Shillong: A 13-year-old mentally unstable girl was repeatedly raped by her maternal uncle for several months at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Khasi Hills district resulting in her pregnancy, police said on Tuesday. Bratstar Pariong (30) of Mawlaisyiem village committed the crime taking advantage of the mental condition of the girl, they said. While the minor girl lives with her family at the village, she would visit her uncle's...

01:06 PM, May 21, 2013

Noida: The poor law and order in Uttar Pradesh was once again highlighted on Monday night when five drunken men opened fire in Noida's Film City, the hub of several national and regional news channels. The men first consumed alcohol and then opened fire. Uttar Police reached the spot after getting the information and arrested all the five accused. The police recovered a pistol, a revolver and also seized their...

11:22 AM, May 21, 2013

New Delhi: A fast track Delhi court hearing the December 16, 2012, gang-rape case on Monday dismissed the pleas of two accused seeking permission to undergo lie detector tests and also to subject the victim's male friend to a similar test. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna dismissed the applications of Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur for their lie detector test and also their application to conduct polygraph test on the...

03:50 AM, May 21, 2013

New Delhi: A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped in Delhi by three people, including two neighbours, after giving her sedatives, police said on Monday. The incident took place May 17, 2013 in east Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said. "Two of the three accused are minors. The third accused has been identified as Ajay who has been arrested. Ajay's younger brother has been sent to a juvenile home while...

03:15 AM, May 21, 2013