Jewellery belonging to luxury brand and Cannes Film Festival sponsor Chopard were stolen on Friday from a hotel room. Police say that the robbers managed to enter the hotel room without forcing the door open or using the magnetic key card and removed the entire safe containing the jewels worth over a million dollars. A Chopard spokesperson though has downplayed the reports that the jewels were valued over a million ...
09:55 AM, May 18, 2013
Ahmedabad: A 50-year-old woman was allegedly robbed and murdered by two unidentified persons on Sunday in Chandkheda area of Ahmedabad, the police said. "One Pushpa Nathani was murdered and her jewellery was also stolen today. She was staying with her son, who had gone to office," the police said. Nathani, who was staying with her son in Chandkheda had lunch at her daughter's place, who stayed next door before she...
12:22 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mathura: A Russian couple was looted by two men during their visit to the sacred hill 'Govardhan' in the district, the police said on Saturday. Larmonoa and her husband Oxen had come see the Govardhan temple with their friends on Friday when the men attacked them and snatched away their handbag which contained cash worth Rs 7,000, their visas and other important documents. Investigations are in progress and a search...
01:49 PM, Apr 06, 2013
A person was on Tuesday arrested after he tried to forcibly enter the RBI building in Mumbai. The intruder, identified as Padma Girirao Shekhar, who hails from Kerala, told investigators that he did this for "publicity". However, police are verifying his claims. ...
05:28 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Delhi-Patna Jansadharan Express robbery case near Agra took an interesting on Tuesday when the Railway Police revealed that passengers who were claiming that they had been beaten up and thrown off the train by the robbers were the ones who had actually committed the crime. ...
03:40 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A gang of miscreants looted cash and valuables from passengers of the Delhi-Patna Jansadharan Express on Monday in Uttar Pradesh. The miscreants not only snatched cash and other valuables from the passengers but also pushed some of them out of the train after they tried to resist their attempts to rob them. ...
11:00 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Armed robbers attacked a jeweller and his associate in Mumbai and looted one kilogram of gold. The entire act was caught on a CCTV as the robbers got away with the gold. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The Delhi gangrape accused were on Friday charged in a separate case of robbing, which they allegedly committed a few hours before gangraping a 23-year-old girl in a bus. ...
05:00 PM, Mar 15, 2013
An Agra-based businessman was abducted and robbed of Rs 1.15 crore by three men in Noida. The abduction and robbery took place near Mahamaya flyover in Noida late on Tuesday night. ...
04:51 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A doctor was killed allegedly by six armed men when he resisted a robbery attempt at his nursing home-cum-residence in Shahjahanpur village in the district following which angry locals lynched one of the attackers, police said on Monday. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 04, 2013
ix armed men allegedly shot dead a 35-year-old trader when he tried to stop them from robbing his house, police said on Saturday. The robbers decamped with Rs 2 lakh cash and jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh after shooting dead Ashfaq Malik at his residence Friday night, police said. ...
03:15 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A woman and her daughter were stabbed to death by three men in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday. Two of the accused are students and one is a minor. ...
01:25 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Iran state radio says two men have been hanged publicly after posting a video on YouTube showing them robbing and assaulting a man with a machete on a Tehran street. The execution was carried out on Sunday after officials called for a speedy investigation and trial because of public outrage. ...
07:35 PM, Jan 20, 2013
An 82-year-old woman was attacked and robbed at her South Delhi residence on Wednesday. Two men, pretending to be courier delivery boys, forced their way into the house. ...
09:47 AM, Jan 17, 2013
"I wanted to rob a bank to raise money to publish a book," a medical student, who was caught robbing a bank at knife-point a few days ago, told a trial court in Panaji. The student Mayur Gupta, who belongs to Agra, was granted bail on Tuesday. ...
12:35 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Some reports say the thieves walked away with about 1 million euros ($1.32 million) of loot. ...
06:14 AM, Jan 02, 2013
The driver of a firm associated with liquor baron late Ponty Chadha on Monday escaped with an amount to the tune of Rs 10 lakh from Gurdaspur district, police said. On the complaint of Jaspreet Singh Seth, Vice President of 'AB food grains', associated with Chadha, a case was registered against Amritsar resident Rajesh Kumar for escaping with the amount, SHO Sri Hargobindpur Gurbhinder Singh said. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Four people, including two students, who carried out a sophisticated robbery - inspired by Hollywood film 'Ocean's 11' - at a bank in Kanpur in November, have been arrested and most of the stolen Rs 23 lakh recovered, police said. ...
08:18 AM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: About 10 people allegedly entered the office of Delhi Jal Board in Janakpuri and made an unsuccessful attempt to loot cash by trying to break open the cash chest, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) said on Tuesday. On the night of December 9 and 10, around 10 thieves entered DJB's Janakpuri Office by breaking the window and tried to cut open the cash chest to loot the cash...
08:33 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Mumbai: A man who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a sixty-one year old woman, was on Monday remanded to police custody till December 14 by a local court. Accused Ashok Kumar (42) was arrested for raping the elderly woman at her flat at Powai in suburban Mumbai on Saturday. According to police, the accused has told them during the interrogation that he took advantage of the situation when...
12:10 AM, Dec 11, 2012
