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
Ghaziabad: The policeman who slapped a girl in Ghaziabad near the capital on Wednesday has been suspended. Sub Inspector Iftikar was caught on camera slapping a girl who was found flouting the law by drinking in a car. An inquiry has been ordered in the case. There was high drama at a police station in Ghaziabad where a policeman and a local woman were caught on camera slapping a young...
10:30 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: As many as 10,553 people were killed in road accidents due to drunken driving in 2011, parliament was told on Tuesday. Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that road accidents occur due to the complex interaction of a number of factors which also include intake of alcohol and drugs. "Intake of alcohol/drugs by drivers resulted in...
10:55 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Three Delhi Police personnel, including a constable and two head constables, were beaten up by two drunk men and five men dressed as advocates in two separate incidents in New Delhi, police said on Friday. In the first incident, a 58-year-old head constable was thrashed by five unidentified men dressed as advocates at around 10 am on Thursday at Tis Hazari Court campus. Head Constable Sumer was beaten...
05:10 AM, Apr 06, 2013
The Delhi Police on Sunday announced it would take tough action this Holi against traffic violators, particularly those caught drinking and driving. ...
07:39 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Irked at an MLA for not taking his phone calls, a drunken man today "fired" with a toy pistol outside the Delhi legislator's office here today triggering panic in the area. ...
04:34 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Bendtner, on a season-long loan to Juventus from Arsenal, admitted to having been 3 times over the legal alcohol limit in Denmark. ...
09:15 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Bombay High Court on Monday observed that prima facie a case of rash and negligent driving is made out against NRI beautician Nooriya Haveliwala, convicted in a 2010 drunken driving case. Justice AM Thipsay, while hearing the bail application filed by Haveliwala, also observed the prosecution should have examined the cab driver, whose vehicle was first hit by the SUV of the beautician, to make a stringent case against...
10:49 AM, Jan 29, 2013
A "drunk" Indian businessman has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first foreign national to be held under China's new law authorising lower courts to prosecute foreigners. Abdul Ajees Mohamed Mustafa, 24, was detained after his car was involved in an accident in the country's international commodity hub Yiwu on November 8, state-run Global Times newspaper reported on Friday. ...
07:44 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Two drunk middle-aged women forced a British Airways flight to make an emergency landing in a French city, after they tried to make their way into the cockpit. The women aged 50 and 43 swore in front of children, refused to return to their seats and tried to force their way into the cockpit after being seen drinking Malibu from the bottle on a Tunisia-bound flight, the Daily Mail reported....
10:21 AM, Jan 04, 2013
An allegedly drunk policeman ran over a 22-year-old woman in Mumbai, who later succumbed to her injuries suffered during the accident on Monday. Family and friends of the woman have alleged that the policeman driving the van was drunk while the police have said the officer was not responsible. ...
09:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
An allegedly drunk policeman ran over a 22-year-old woman in Mumbai, who later succumbed to her injuries suffered during the accident on Monday. Family and friends of the woman have alleged that the policeman driving the van was drunk while the police have said the officer was not responsible. ...
09:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Security has been beefed up in Guwahati and other parts of Assam in the run-up to the New Year, with city police launching special drive against drunk driving. "We have stepped up patrolling and put both uniformed personnel and plainclothes police at sensitive places. Our main target are those who are engaged in drunk driving," Kamrup Metro Senior Superintendent of Police AK Tiwari said. ...
06:33 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Salem: A man was allegedly beaten to death at Attur in the district by five persons who were irked over his advising them to drive safely, police said on Wednesday. The police said the man was driving his two-wheeler on Tuesday night when three persons on a motorcycle and two others on another two-wheeler rode past him with one of the riders standing. He advised them to drive safely and...
10:17 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Mumbai: NRI beautician Nooriya Haveliwala on Thursday was convicted for ramming her car into two people in 2010 and sentence to five years in jail. Haveliwala was also slapped with a fine of Rs 5 lakh. A policeman was among those killed when an inebriated Haveliwala rammed her car on her way back from a party at Malabar Hill in Mumbai. Tests showed that Haveliwala was found to have been...
12:30 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Bulandshahr: A drunk policeman on Monday allegedly opened fire when he was asked to pay bill after he consumed liquor in a restaurant in Bulandshahr. Durgesh Kumar, posted at Bulandshahr Kotwali rural police station, had liquor and food at the restaurant and when he was asked to pay the bill he allegedly started firing, injuring a waiter, SSP Gulab Singh said. The hotel staff overpowered the constable the handed him...
11:56 AM, Oct 24, 2012
Hyderabad: Though the drive against drunken driving had been initiated almost 10 months ago by the city traffic police, violation of the rule is still a cause of concern. Thousands of cases have been registered so far, yet the police are having a tough time dealing with those who violate the rule. The police find it surprising as a majority of those who violate the drunken driving rule are either...
01:31 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Los Angeles: Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has served jail for her irresponsible driving, feels it's unfair that fellow actress Amanda Bynes has not yet been arrested for her ongoing driving indiscretions. "Why did I get put in jail and a Nickelodeon star has had no punishment so far," Lohan tweeted, making an indirect reference to Bynes. "These are the moments that I appreciate my life experiences, living without regrets and...
05:52 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: In a yet another case of suspected drunk driving in Mumbai, a young actor was killed on Friday night. Eighteen-year-old television actress Neeral Bhardwaj died after a Honda city rammed into an auto rickshaw she was travelling. Neeral has acted in soaps like 'Mata ki Chowki' and 'Shani Dev ki Mahima'. After the police arrested the driver of the car, Purvesh Patkar, his relatives staged a protest at the...
06:29 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Police have decided to tighten the drive against drunken driving in Cyberabad following last weeks attempt by a group of youngsters to kidnap a girl from the University of Hyderabad campus. Sources in the department said a directive was issued to further intensify the drive soon after the incident. The police officials, however, pointed out that they had been conducting the drive in Cyberabad limits for some time now...
03:03 PM, Sep 03, 2012
