Kochi: Criticising police for 'protecting' higher officials in the Navy, the Kerala High Court on Monday declined to grant anticipatory bail to Lt Ravi Kiran, whose wife had filed a police complaint here levelling charges of wife swapping by her husband and his superiors. Dismissing his anticipatory bail plea, Justice Kemal Pesha said that in a 'serious matter' like this involving a serious offence, the petitioner is not entitled for...
05:40 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: An 82-year-old man has been acquitted of the charge of raping his maid by a Delhi court, which said government should frame guidelines for regulating placement agencies supplying domestic help to curb instances of registration of such false cases. Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma acquitted Delhi resident Krishan Lal Chawla observing that it is a "living example" of placement agency's maid raising false rape and threat allegation...
03:50 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: Six men dressed in 'burqas', who carried out a daring Hollywood-style robbery at one of London's most iconic department stores, stole watches worth an estimated $ 1.52 million, the Scotland Yard has said. The men, who were disguised in 'burqas', smashed glass cabinets and filled holdalls with high-value watches in the dramatic smash-and-raid attack on the world-famous Selfridges store on Thursday. A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection...
11:45 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Puri: A 13-year-old visually impaired girl on Wednesday was brutally raped and murdered in a forest near Puri district. The accused, Banamali Barik, a driver, has been arrested. The horrific crime has led to protests by opposition political parties and several people in Bhubaneswar. Physically challenged persons along with women workers of BJP, Congress and Samata Kranti Dal set up a blockade near Sri Ram Temple in Bhubaneswar demanding action...
08:30 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Ghaziabad: A Delhi University (DU) student was allegedly gangraped by her driver and his friend in Ghaziabad in a car on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred around 8.30 pm in a car in a closed down factory in Sahibabad Industrial area on Saturday night. The survivor, who lives with her elder sister in Rajendra Nagar, had accompanied her driver Yogesh to collect the registration papers of...
07:40 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Lahore: A man allegedly raped his daughter and later poisoned her to death in Pakistan's Punjab province, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred a few days ago in Nawan Kot village of Gujrat district, 125 km from the provincial capital of Lahore. The girl's family did not report the incident to police and secretly buried her in a local graveyard. The matter came to light when Sobia Amaan, a...
11:16 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A taxi driver was arrested in Puri on Saturday for allegedly raping and murdering a visually impaired minor girl, police said. Banamali Barik, 35, who was arrested, is a drug edict and has a criminal record. He was a frequent visitor to the victim's house. He has confessed to the crime, District Superintendent of Police Anup Sahu told IANS. The 15-year-old victim was a student of a blind school...
04:03 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Jajpur: An eight-year old girl was sexually exploited allegedly by a teacher who gave her private tuition in Urdu in Vyas Nagar town in Odisha's Jajpur district. According to a complaint filed with the police by the girl's father, his daughter, a student of class III in an English medium school at Vyas Nagar took private tuitions from Muzafar Housen, a teacher at a madrasa at Ahmadnagar. The girl told...
03:05 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Prescott Valley: Authorities in northern Arizona say a 4-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his father at a Prescott Valley home. Prescott Valley police say the shooting occurred just after noon Friday. The 35-year-old man and his young son were visiting from Phoenix and were at a friend's house. Police say the boy somehow found a gun in the home's living room and accidentally fired it and a bullet...
07:26 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Bharatpur: The woman owner of the girls' hostel, where CCTV cameras were found installed near three toilets, has been booked and the building was sealed by police. Shalu Satija, aged around 30 years, was booked under section 354 of IPC (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) in the FIR lodged late Friday night by Minority Department officer Prem Singh. Shalu along with her husband...
06:39 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Kolkata: A college student was allegedly gangraped by four men in Barasat on the outskirts of Kolkata on Friday. The incident took place when the girl was returning home after taking an examination. The girl was reportedly dragged and raped in an under-construction building. Her body was found with injury marks near a neighbourhood canal. Police have now arrested three suspects and are looking for the fourth man. Meanwhile, locals...
03:26 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Faridabad: A man accused of rape and murder of a 10-year-old was sentenced to death on Friday. In 2012, Inder Soni had raped the daughter of his tenant and stabbed her to death in Faridabad. The victim's family belonged to Munger in Bihar. The accused had raped and murdered the girl when she went to his room to give him food. After the girl did not return, her father searched...
08:36 AM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: All of 19, a teenaged girl was abandoned by her family after being raped by a neighbour last year. Weak and helpless in the ninth month of her pregnancy, she wants the state to take care of her child. "I've no money or means to support the child. My family has left me. The state should provide for this child," says the rape survivor. After a lower court...
07:29 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Columbus: A man accused of holding three women captive in his run-down home in Cleveland for a decade and fathering a child with one of them has been indicted on 329 charges including murder, kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said. A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned the indictment on Friday against Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver fired last fall. Castro, 52, is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus...
07:02 AM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: A man, accused of misbehaving with an air hostess in a Delhi-bound flight of Thai Airways in 2004, has been acquitted by a court here due to lack of evidence against him. The court acquitted Arunabha Goswami, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, for the offence under section 354 (outraging woman's modesty) of IPC saying police have not given any "plausible explanation" about not recording the statement of any...
12:52 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl suffered burn injuries after a man allegedly threw acid on her, while she was begging at Jagatgirigutta area of Hyderabad on Friday, police said. According to police, the accused Narasimha, was in a drunken state when the incident took place. When the minor girl, who is dumb, came to Narasimha seeking alms, he threw acid on her, they said. The girl, who sustained burn injuries on...
10:20 PM, Jun 07, 2013
Thane: In a speedy trial, a 53-year-old man was on Friday sentenced to death by a court here for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in January 2013. Thane Additional Sessions Judge PH Mali while pronouncing the verdict observed that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category as the girl had been done to death in the most cruel manner and a young life was snuffed out. Prosecutor...
05:36 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: A 15-year-old girl from Delhi was allegedly gangraped and filmed by two men in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town, police said on Thursday. The girl, a resident of the capital's Pandav Nagar area, was on May 31 offered a joy ride on a bike by her neighbour Fakira, who took her to a house in Ghaziabad where his nephew Pradeep was already present. The victim in her complaint filed...
01:26 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Manali (HP): Three Nepalese men working as truck drivers were on Thursday arrested for allegedly gangraping a 30-year-old US national in Manali on Monday. The accused were arrested in the wee hours and the tipper used by them for perpetrating the crime has been seized, police said. The arrested persons identified as Arjun (22), Lakki (24) and Som Bahadur (24) are from Nepal, Superintendent of Police, Kullu, Vinod Dhawan said....
01:50 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Washington: For the first time, the FBI will start tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs, meeting one of the long-pending demands of these minority communities, who have increasingly been targetted post 9/11 in the United States. After years of pressure from civil rights groups and lawmakers, the FBI Advisory Policy Board on Wednesday recommended tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab Americans. At its meeting, the board...
12:55 PM, Jun 06, 2013
