Mumbai: The next time you find strangers at your doorsteps, claiming that they have come to invite you for a wedding at your hometown, think twice before you welcome them. On Monday, a group of three unidentified men, under the pretext of giving a wedding invite, robbed a housewife and her daughter at gunpoint. According to the Chembur police, the unidentified trio had introduced themselves to Sohani Naval, 48, a...
12:36 PM, May 30, 2012
CHENNAI: Did the previous DMK-run State government rob the gods of their gold? Thats what Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa suspects, going by State HR and CE Minister MSM Anandans allegations in the State Assembly on Wednesday. Participating in a discussion on the demands for grants for his department, Anandan alleged that the DMK regime had concentrated mostly on work which required the usage of gold owned by various temples in...
09:05 AM, May 10, 2012
CHENNAI: A midnight heist was attempted at the branch of a nationalised bank in Pallikaranai on Friday. Police said that Punjab National Banks manager Ravi went to open the bank on Velachery main road near a private engineering college at 8.40am. Inside, he noticed that the grill of one of the windows had been broken. He immediately alerted the police, who on inspection came to a conclusion that it was...
10:17 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Mumbai: Lulled by an evening of revelry, a 26-year-old NRI was on his way home to Andheri on Friday night when his heroic and charitable instincts were aroused by the sight of two helpless women, desperately waving for a lift on the auto he had flagged. Little did he know that a rude awakening lay in store for him " the two women, who were later discovered to be eunuchs...
12:57 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Two youth accused of robbing Rs 600 from two men and injuring them, have been convicted and sent to seven years rigorous jail term on Monday by a Delhi court. Refusing to take a lenient view or grant probation to the two 19-year-old convicts, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ramesh Kumar said robbery and dacoity are on the increase in the metros and such crimes need to be dealt...
08:08 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Chennai: Two employees of a leading finance company, who were carrying three bags of gold coins, were assaulted and robbed of their gold chain and cell phones by the driver of an autorickshaw in which they were travelling, at Koyambedu on Wednesday. In the melee, police say, the auto driver and his accomplice also decamped with a bag containing 2.5 kg of gold coins worth Rs 60 lakh from the...
09:46 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Mumbai: After over three decades of being on the run, Dharavi police have finally arrested a man wanted in a 1979 robbery case. The accused, Krishna Raghunath Vaidi, now 59-years-old, had fled the city in 1980. He had been living in Gujarat since the court had declared him wanted in the case. Constable Prakash Shirke attached to Dharavi police station had seen Vaidi's photograph last year, when he arrested co-accused...
07:52 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: A gang of thieves on Tuesday took away an ATM machine loaded with around Rs 20 lakh from Maninagar area, police said. "Instead of bothering to open the ATM machine and take away the cash, thieves decamped with the entire machine belonging to SBI," they said. The incident happened early on Tuesday morning, they said, adding that the ATM outlet had no security guard and the CCTV cameras installed...
12:24 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: Aman Shahaye had come to the city from UP with dazzling dreams in his eyes. What the 24-year-old got instead was a living nightmare. The software engineer and small-time model was allegedly drugged, held hostage and robbed of his valuables by four women in Goregaon. Aman arrived in Mumbai on March 17 and was staying at a hotel. He met one of the girls identified as Shabnam, at a...
05:59 PM, Mar 29, 2012
CHENNAI: A batch of pleas have been made in the Madras High Court supporting the action of police personnel in killing five youths, said to be involved in two bank robberies, in an encounter in the wee hours of February 23. Yuvaraj Mohandas and five other advocates and M Vasudevan and 23 others, all residents of Velachery, have moved the High Court seeking permission to implead themselves as parties in...
08:56 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: A group of armed men robbed passengers on the Amodpur-Katwa train and allegedly raped a woman at gunpoint when she resisted the robbers. A case has been registered with Katwa Rail police. The female passenger tried to resist and was allegedly dragged outside the train and raped at gunpoint. The victim will be taken for medical examination on Sunday. ...
11:02 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Chennai: Five people were killed in an encounter with the police when they allegedly attempted to rob a bank. Two policemen were also injured in the incident that took place at 1 am on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip-off, a police team surrounded a house in Vandikaran Street in Velachery around 1 am and asked the suspects to come out, a police officer said. The accused opened fire at...
07:50 AM, Feb 23, 2012
London: In a Hollywood-style heist, a group of thieves prepared for months and dug a 100-feet tunnel to reach an ATM only to get away with 6,000 pounds due to limited funds in the machine. In order to lay their hands on extra cash, the thieves put in elaborate planning and work in digging a 100-feet tunnel under a building to reach a cash machine. The labour-intensive robbery saw the...
03:14 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi witnessed an upward trend in crime graph for the third consecutive year in 2011 as it registered a four per cent increase compared to the previous year, prompting police to earmark special measures to combat street crime besides strengthening anti-terror mechanism. Though there was a dip in street crime like snatching and vehicle theft cases, heinous crimes were on the rise in the capital last year compared...
05:59 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Mumbai: In spite of repeated reminders and requests by the Mumbai police, many residents in the western suburbs have still not furnished the details of their domestic help to the police. The negligence has led to yet another robbery, this time involving a singer-actor, Poonam Jhawar, who has some TV ads and music videos to her credit. Jhawar, who kicked off her career with the film Mohra, was robbed of...
10:34 AM, Nov 22, 2011
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