Crime and Accident

Hyderabad, June 09: Four students died and two others suffered serious burns in a fire at their teacher’s house in Mayapatnam village in U Kothapalli mandal in East Godavari district. Electric short circuit is said to be the reason behind the fire.

While two students died on the spot, two others succumbed to burns at the government general hospital on Monday. Sources said the short circuit caused by loose wiring in a TV set spread to the false ceiling of a wedding pandal in the house where the students and the teacher slept late on Sunday night.

Hyderabad, June 09: A second-year MCA student committed suicide after he was allegedly ragged by his seniors in the college. The body of D Devender Kumar was found on the railway tracks at Dharmaram in Geesukonda mandal of Warangal district in the early hours of Monday.

The deceased, a native of Choppadandi village in Karimnagar district, was a student of Vasavi engineering college at Ibrahimbagh in Hyderabad.

New Delhi, June 09: In yet another case of a minor being involved in a heinous crime, a 14-year-old boy has been detained for allegedly sodomising and murdering a six-year-old. The shocking incident was reported from near the Inder weighing bridge off Sarai Kale Khan area on the banks of Yamuna.

Kanpur, June 09: In an incident that raises serious doubts about the safety of patients in government hospitals, a ward boy of a government hospital in Kanpur was arrested on Monday following complaints by a French tourist that there was an attempt to rape her.

Srinagar, June 08: The Forensic Sciences Laboratory on Sunday confirmed that the two women who died under suspicious circumstances at Shopian had been sexually assaulted before they died.The police have registered a First Information Report under Section 376 of the Ranbir Penal Code.

Police sources told The Hindu that the report by the FSL confirmed that Neelofar (22), who was pregnant, and Asiya (17) were sexually assaulted before their death last week. “Spermatozoa detected,” reads the report given by the experts.

Palanpur, June 08: Tragedy struck a government doctor’s family when he and his wife were killed in a road accident near Tharad in Banaskantha district on Sunday. Their two daughters were also injured in the mishap that occurred at 8.30 am when their WagonR collided head-on with a jeep coming from the opposite direction near Haripura Patiya, three km from Tharad.

Chennai, June 08: The city woke up on Sunday to the macabre tale of a man’s body parts being recovered from three different parts of the city and his head still missing.

With the help of a receipt found in his trouser pocket, the police identified the man as G Suresh Kumar, a 42-year-old man from Kodungaiyur who worked as an intermediary for gold sales. The motive behind the murder is yet to be established, though the police suspect business-related rivalry.

Ghaziabad, June 08: In a shocking incident, a man allegedly stabbed to death his five children before trying to murder his wife and commit suicide, police said Monday.

The incident took place last night when Ravinder Verma returned home in an inebriated state to which his wife Durga objected.

In a fit of rage, Ravinder stabbed his five children — three girls and two boys — who died on the spot and tried to murder his wife. He then tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself and cutting his veins, police said.

Lucknow, June 08 : A father tried to commit suicide after killing his five children in Vijaynagar locality of the city last night.

The culprit Ravindra, who was going through acute financial crisis , also tried to kill his wife and stabbed himself.

Police said Ravindra killed his five children by beating them with iron rods and when his wife Durga protested she was also beaten by him.

The couple was admitted to the hospital in critical condition.

The deceased children were identified as Anjali(12), Priti(10), Priyanka(5), Devraj(6) and Ashu(8).

Hyderabad, June 08: Bukkawar Rani (42) and her son Mahesh (21) committed suicide by hanging in their house at Jainad mandal headquarters in the wee hours of Sunday. Problems within the family is believed to be the cause for the duo for taking the extreme step.

–Agencies

Nagpur, June 08: A 25-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her stepsons over sharing of property in the wee hours of Sunday. The incident occurred at victim’s Farooque Nagar home. Victim Ishrat Jahan had married Yaar Mohammed, who is in his fifties and having ten children from his first wife, just a couple of months back.

Lucknow, June 08: In a daring robbery, an armed miscreant entered a jewellery store and decamped with jewellery worth over Rs 1 crore, moments after the store owner opened his shop for the day in Sarrafa Chowk area in Pilibhit on Sunday morning. The shop is located barely a 100 metres away from the local Puranpur police station.

Agitated over the incident, traders of Sarrafa Chowk announced that they would keep their shutters down till the accused(s) was arrested and the booty recovered.

Lucknow, June 08: Despite tall claims of the UP Police of initiating stringent action against eve-teasers and those involved in crime against women, a youth barged into a house in Auraiya and raped a teenaged girl, finding her all alone in the house. When the victim raised an alarm, the accused reportedly doused her in kerosene and set herself ablaze before making good his escape.

Ahmedabad, June 08: As bizarre as it may sound, police officials in Ahmedabad now say that an illiterate woman, who can’t even spell her name properly, is the brain behind conman Ashok Jadeja’s multi-crore scam.

Jadeja’s aunt, Manbai Rathod, 60, who is a witch doctor or ‘bhuva’, is believed to be the mastermind of the investment scam threatening to cross the Rs 1,000-crore mark. Though illiterate, Rathod coined the now-famous slogan, ‘Jai Madi’ (Jai Ma), which has become synonymous with Jadeja. She was responsible for Jadeja’s demigod status.

New Delhi, June 08: A 30-year-old woman was arrested here for allegedly murdering her “alcoholic and abusive” husband after her father reported the matter to police, investigators said today.

Neha alias Sunita was arrested yesterday from her Rohini residence by police after her father reported the murder of his son-in-law Naveen (32) on Friday night, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) Atul Katiyar said.

Chennai, June 08: The city woke up on Sunday to the macabre tale of a man’s body parts being recovered from three different parts of the city and his head still missing. With the help of a receipt found in his trouser pocket, the police identified the man as G Suresh Kumar, a 42-year-old man from Kodungaiyur who worked as an intermediary for gold sales. The motive behind the murder is yet to be established, though the police suspect business-related rivalry.

Srinagar, June 08: In a major embarrassment to the Jammu and Kashmir government that had so far maintained that the two south Kashmir women found dead last Police fire tear gas, during a protest against the deaths of two young women Kashmiri locals claim were raped and killed in Srinagar. Week had drowned, the police on Sunday registered an FIR in the case after a forensic report confirmed that they were raped and murdered.

Mumbai, June 07: Padamsinh Patil, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP and a former Maharashtra home minister, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) late Saturday night in connection with the murder of a Congress leader in 2006, official sources said here. Patil, who represents Osmanabad in the Lok Sabha, was earlier detained after being questioned till late into the night, the sources said.

He is likely to be produced before a court in Panvel Sunday, the sources added.

New Delhi, June 07: In the first such order in the capital, a trial court has asked the police to register an FIR against six members of a family, including the bride, for giving dowry to the groom’s family.

New Delhi, June 05: The main witness in a murder case succumbed to injuries after being charred by the accused of the crime, said police sources.

According to the sources, Saleem, the witness in a murder case was first abducted and later charred to death by the accused of the crime.

The victim was admitted to Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in the national capital where he succumbed to his injuries after four days on Thursday. It is worth mentioning here that the police did not record any statement of the victim. The relatives of the victim accuse police of negligence in the case.

Phoenix, June 04: A man has been accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman and broadcasting it live on the Internet.

A statement filed in court in Phoenix says 20-year-old Jonathan Richard Hock was arrested Monday on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and taking a surreptitious photo.

The court document said Hock set up a Webcam and sexually assaulted the 20-year-old woman in her bedroom in February while she was unconscious from drinking alcohol.

New Delhi, June 03: A 26-year-old nursery school teacher, along with her boyfriend, allegedly bludgeoned and stabbed her mother to death with kitchen knives, a broken beer bottle and a pressing iron after they were caught together in her Paschim Vihar house in west Delhi, police claimed on Tuesday.

The murder took place last Thursday and was initially reported as the handiwork of robbers — a story allegedly cooked up by the daughter to save herself.

New Delhi, June 02: Delhi Police claimed to have cracked last week’s gruesome murder of a woman in Paschim Vihar with the arrest of her 26-year-old daughter and the girl’s boyfriend, who had apparently panicked on being caught together in the house and killed her.

The girl, Sakshi Kapoor, and boyfriend Sunny Batra, 21, were arrested Tuesday.

Mumbai, June 02: Mahanand Naik has a gentle face and tender eyes. But beneath the calm demeanor is a cold-blooded rapist and killer.

Naik, arrested by the Goa Police on April 21, has allegedly confessed to having raped and murdered 16 women in as many years.

Mumbai, June 01: Bhayander resident Shefali Sheth, 28, allegedly killed her newborn by smashing its head on January 14. Arrested on January 24, she is now seeking bail before the Thane sessions court, stating that she was in a state of depression when the child was born out of precipitate labour.