Etawah: A 21-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped on Thursday in a moving van by four youths, who later dumped her in district hospital in Etawah and escaped. The victim, a first-year graduate student, was picked up by the four youths when she was returning home after withdrawing money from a bank on Thursday afternoon, police said. However, later, the van reportedly met with an accident in which the girl was...
01:46 AM, May 10, 2013
Dhaka: A top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was on Thursday sentenced to death for mass murder and "crimes against humanity" he committed during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, becoming the fourth person to be convicted in the case. A special Bangladeshi tribunal handed down death penalty to Muhammad Kuamaruzzaman for collaborating in the mass murder of 164 unarmed civilians in Sohagpur village on July 25, 1971, The Daily...
04:56 PM, May 09, 2013
Bilaspur: A police officer was arrested for allegedly repeatedly raping a 23-year-old girl over four years on the pretext of marrying her, police said on Wednesday. "Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Ashutosh Kaushik (29), posted at Bilaspur SP office, was apprehended on Tuesday on the charge of rape after the victim filed complaint against him," SP Ratanlal Dangi said. According to the police, the girl, a resident of Kasturba Nagar in...
03:35 AM, May 09, 2013
Jamnagar: A 30-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her toddler son by setting him ablaze at her residence on Wednesday, apparently following a dispute with her husband, police said. "Vandana, wife of one Kishore Vadgama who is a carpenter by profession, today burnt her two-year-old son Raunak alive, after dousing him with kerosene," they said. The incident took place this morning at Vambay Awaas Yojana, where the couple is...
12:35 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: A 'tantrik' has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Delhi court for repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter, relying solely on her testimony. Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval awarded the jail term to the Ashok Nagar resident for raping his minor daughter, observing that the strained relations between the parents may be a reason for sexual assault on the girl by her father. "It is held...
05:03 PM, May 08, 2013
Dubai: An Indian, working as a cleaner in a school in Bahrain, has been put on trial on charges of raping a six-year-old schoolboy. The 24-year-old, whose name has not been divulged, is alleged to have raped the boy in the toilet of a private school in December 2012, the Gulf Daily News reported on Tuesday. The accused has pleaded not guilty in a criminal court. The boy, the son...
10:40 PM, May 07, 2013
Washington: The Pentagon said on Monday that China is using espionage to acquire technology to fuel its military modernization. The Pentagon for the first time accused the Chinese of trying to break into US defence computer networks, though China on Tuesday firmly desmised the allegations. In its 83-page annual report to Congress on Chinese military developments, the Pentagon also cited progress in Beijing's effort to develop advanced-technology stealth aircraft and...
08:25 PM, May 07, 2013
Mumbai: A four-year-old girl child was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in Kandivali area of Mumbai. The child was found with several injury marks on her body after the assault. The police have registered a case of abduction and rape, but no arrests have been made till now. According to the police, the four-year-old girl was abducted when she was playing outside her home. When her parents could not...
12:08 PM, May 07, 2013
Salem: Upset over her husband declining to have food prepared by her, a newly married wife took her life by setting herself ablaze at her home near Salem, police said on Tuesday. Salem District Valapadi DSP P Mathavan said the 20-year-old woman had prepared dinner for her husband and brother on Monday night, but after tasting it, he refused it. Immediately, she poured kerosene and set herself ablaze, the DSP...
11:19 AM, May 07, 2013
Cleveland: Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up and held in a home just south of downtown before being found on Monday, and three brothers were arrested, police said. One of the women frantically told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come...
10:59 AM, May 07, 2013
Hyderabad: Actor and Union Minister Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan lands in trouble after his bodyguards beat up two IT professionals for coming in the way of the star's Aston Martin in the posh Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad on Sunday. Ram Charan was caught flexing his muscles after being caught in a street brawl. The IT professionals said that they were beaten up at the behest of the star after...
10:07 AM, May 07, 2013
Shillong: A minor girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified armed man in Boldamgre village in Meghalaya's Garo Hills district, police said on Monday. A group of over 15 people armed with daggers, machetes and other weapons from Assam's Hat-Singimari area raided the village, located about 12 km from Garobadha town near Shillong, and went from house to house attacking its inhabitants on Sunday, they said. The girl, who ran...
10:01 AM, May 07, 2013
Ranchi: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step-daughter for the last seven months, police said on Monday. A woman neighbour helped the police in arresting accused Mahendra Sonar. Sonar was married to a woman in Giridih. He later came in contact with a divorced woman in Ranchi and fathered two children -- a three-year-old boy and six-month old daughter, they said. The accused allegedly raped the...
12:40 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing the December 16 gangrape case on Monday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to file a detailed report on the death of Ram Singh, one of the six accused in the sensational crime. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna's order came after counsel VK Anand, appearing for accused Mukesh (Ram Singh's brother), told the court that jail authorities have not yet complied with the court's March...
11:41 PM, May 06, 2013
Etah: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old youth in Hayatpurmafi village in the district, police said on Monday. The 15-year-old girl, who had came to the village to attend a marriage ceremony, was raped by the accused, identified as Devendra while she was slleping on the terrace, they said. On hearing the cries of the girl, her family members rushed and caught hold of the accused and...
07:14 PM, May 06, 2013
Sydney: An India-born doctor in Australia, convicted of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old patient, has walked free from an immigration detention centre. Suhail Durani, 36, was convicted of inappropriately touching the patient and asking her indecent questions in the February 20, 2010, incident at the Royal Perth Hospital. He was held at the centre after he was released from the Casuarina prison south of Perth in February, 2013 and the Australian...
04:10 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: An eight-year-old girl was raped by a 40-year-old neighbour in New Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused is on the run. Suspect Rajinder, a jobless man who is the neighbour of the girl in Sarai Rohilla area of north Delhi, lured the victim to his house on Saturday evening and raped her, police said. "The girl's parents approached us on Saturday night," said a police officer, adding...
10:33 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Missing since five days from their houses a minor girl and a youth were found dead with their hands tied in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, police said on Sunday. A suicide note was recovered from the girl's house. They were said to be brother and sister but their relationship was not liked by their family members, police said. "The 16-year-old girl and the 20-year-old youth, whom...
09:58 AM, May 06, 2013
Ahmedabad: The prime accused in the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case of 2008, Mohammad Shahid Nagori, was remanded in nine days police custody by a local court on Sunday. Nagori, a member of Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and an alleged Indian Mujahedeen (IM) operative, was arrested by Madhya Pradesh police on May 3, 2013 from Ujjain and handed over to the Gujarat police team lead by DCP Crime...
02:27 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: A 24-year-old pregnant woman was strangled allegedly by her jobless husband who surrendered before investigators on Sunday with police suspecting it to be a case of dowry death. The incident was reported from Najafgarh on Saturday night and the deceased has been identified as Pinky. Vicky (30) surrendered before police this morning. Pinky's family alleged that Vicky used to beat her for dowry, police said. Vicky said that...
02:02 AM, May 06, 2013
