Chennai: A drunk truck-driver who lured away and raped a five-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore town has been arrested, police said on Saturday. According to police, the incident took place May 12, 2013, when 25-year-old K Saravanan was cleaning the vehicle near house of the girl, whose parents had gone out on work.
He took the girl playing outside her home to his house nearby and sexually assaulted her, police said. Returning from work, the girl's mother saw her daughter in severe pain and took her to a doctor who diagnosed what had happened.
On the mother's complaint with the women's police station, Saravanan was arrested from his house in the outskirts of Coimbatore, around 500 km from Chennai. According to police, the accused has been sent to judicial custody. A police official told IANS that the accused said he committed the act in a drunken state.
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05:30 AM, May 19, 2013
Islamabad: Suspected militants attacked NATO supply trucks in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing two drivers, officials said. Two armed men riding a motorcycle targeted a truck in Jamrud area of the lawless Khyber tribal region and killed its driver, officials told the media. Another NATO supply truck was attacked on the outskirts of Peshawar and its driver shot dead, police officials said. No group claimed responsibility for both attacks....
03:00 AM, May 17, 2013
Bikaner: A driver of a school bus was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl here, police said on Monday. The girl, a class X student of a private school here has charged her school bus driver with raping her and lodged an FIR against him with Khajuwala police station on Sunday night. The police have arrested the accused, identified as Rajesh Kumar (35), CO Babu Lal said on Monday....
04:29 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Jaipur: Jaipur Police on Tuesday arrested the driver of the truck which hit a motorcycle in a tunnel in Jaipur and killed a mother and her infant daughter. The accident displayed public apathy when a CCTV footage showed the victim's injured husband and son crying for help for around 40 minutes but were ignored by passerbys. The truck driver identified as Heeralal was arrested from Madhya Pradesh. Additional Superintendent of...
09:10 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Four months after the Delhi gangrape triggered mass outrage and a series of promises by authorities, the dismal reality is that nothing has changed on the ground. Bus drivers still have to bribe touts to get a license. ...
03:55 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Pune: Pune bus driver Santosh Mane has been sentenced to death by a sessions court on Monday for crushing to death nine people in Pune in 2012. More than 30 people were also injured in the incident on February 3, 2012 when Mane drove his bus over them. The judge, who had convicted the driver of murder on April 3, observed that Mane was fully conscious of his actions as...
12:58 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Nothing has changed on the ground four months after the Delhi gangrape triggered mass outrage and a series of promises by authorities. CNN-IBN's sister channel IBN7 has conducted a special investigation showing that fake licences based on fake addresses are still being issued to bus drivers. The Delhi gangrape of December 2012 was committed on board a private bus, which had a fake licence issued on a fake...
07:55 AM, Apr 08, 2013
A sessions court held Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation driver Santosh Mane guilty on Wednesday for mowing down eight people and injuring 28 others in January 25, 2012. ...
09:11 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Punjab Police Assistant Sub-Inspector Ravinderpal Mangat was beaten to death by occupants of a truck in Patiala. Sources say the incident took place when the policeman tried to clear a road for VIP movement. This led to an altercation with the truck occupants who then allegedly beat him to death. ...
11:20 AM, Mar 30, 2013
A day after eight policemen were transferred in connection with the assault of a woman in Tarn Taran, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to provide CRPF security to the victim. ...
04:55 AM, Mar 20, 2013
An aspiring chartered accountant and a taxi driver committed suicide in New Delhi by hanging themselves in separate incidents, police said on Sunday. Upma Singh, 21, a chartered accountancy student, hanged herself from a ceiling fan at her rented house in Laxmi Nagar in east Delhi on Sunday morning, police said. ...
03:37 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The FIA World Motor Sport Council nominated Chandhok to be part of the newly created Drivers' Commission, which will be headed by two-time world champion Emerson Fittipaldi. ...
05:02 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Seven persons were killed and three others injured in a road accident in neighbouring Navi Mumbai in the wee hours of on Monday, police said. The mishap took place when a jeep packed with passengers crashed into an unidentified heavy vehicle on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway while overtaking at Kalamboli at about 3.20 AM, they said. ...
08:08 PM, Mar 04, 2013
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04:21 PM, Mar 03, 2013
The Bangalore police are on the lookout for a woman, who is absconding, after allegedly ramming her car into a footpath killing one and injuring three others. The incident took place on Saturday night. ...
08:35 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Sauber managed four podium finishes and 126 points last season, compared to 44 points in 2011, although the team was somewhat inconsistent. ...
08:54 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Three traffic policemen, including two senior officers, had a miraculous escape here when a truck tried to mow them down during a drive to check traffic, Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused truck driver was arrested. ...
12:55 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Police teams swarmed a rural US property on Wednesday where a man accused of fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old passenger was thought to be hiding in a homemade bunker. Neighbours were evacuated, and one said she had been startled this week by the suspect's stare. ...
11:25 PM, Jan 30, 2013
