Crime

Passenger caught railway staff using toilet water to make 'chai', contractor penalized

The incident was also caught on camera by the passenger. It has been doing rounds on various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp for the past few days.

May 3, 2018

Security guard rapes teenager inside toilet

The security guard allegedly sexually assaulted the girl, a slum sweller, inside the toilet of a cinema theater in Hyderabad. The accused has been taken into judicial custody.

May 2, 2018

Class 11 girl allegedly abducted, raped for 4 days by Facebook friend

The 16-year-old was on the way to school April 24 when her Facebook friend met her and offered her a ride on his scooter. The accused, identified as Pankaj Dhobi, took the girl around the city and then took her to a room that had been arranged by his friend and co-accused Dinesh Lodha.

May 1, 2018

Dogs feed on man's body left outside morgue, 2 suspended

Earlier, a woman's body kept outside a morgue in Uttar Pradesh was ravaged by dogs. The woman's family had found bits of her skull missing when they came to take her body.

May 1, 2018

Farmers force Dalit man to drink urine for refusing to harvest crops

Apart from the Dalit man in Uttar Pradesh, another Dalit bridegroom in Rajasthan's Bhilwara was also assaulted by upper caste men for riding a horse during his pre-wedding ceremony on Sunday.

May 1, 2018

Teacher asks sexual favor from male student, faces deportation

The accused is married and has two children. She was teaching at Concordia College in Adelaide's inner south-east when she sent one of her male student sexually explicit messages and encouraged him to meet her for sex.

Apr 30, 2018

8 men grope and rip off minor's clothes as passerby shoot video

The video of the sexual assault, which took place in Bihar's Jehanabad area has gone viral on social media. In the video, it is seen that most of the accused men are teenagers.

Apr 30, 2018

2 people burnt alive after Ola cab catches fire on Delhi-Gurugram expressway

Unfortunately the occupants of the car could not escape, as the fire had activated the car's central-locking system. Even passers-by failed to pull them out as the vehicle was engulfed in flames.

Apr 30, 2018

Bike-borne men posing as cops hijack bus with 42 passengers on board

Four bike-borne men posing as Central Crime Branch police officers barged into the Kannur-bound bus. They asked the driver to go to a warehouse in Bangalore's Pattanagere area and kept the 42 passengers hostage Friday night.

Apr 29, 2018

How DNA evidence was used to capture the Golden State Killer

A 40-year old cold case that involved over 50 rapes and 12 murders was finally put to rest using only DNA evidence. DNA collected in crime scenes was matched with a sample from an online genealogy test to close the case.

Apr 29, 2018

Pakistan court jails man in nation's 1st child pornography conviction

The accused, Sadat Amin, was found guilty on charges of being part of a child pornography racket in Europe and the United States. The accused was arrested from Sargodha in Pakistan after a complaint was filed by the Norwegian Embassy in April last year.

Apr 27, 2018

Woman forced to drink, allegedly gang raped by cab driver and co-passenger

The victim, a BPO executive, was reportedly asked to consume alcohol inside the cab following which she was taken to a nearby forest area and gang-raped by the cab driver and co-passenger. The Uttar Pradesh police have detained the accused.

Apr 27, 2018

Ex-California policeman arrested in 'Golden State' serial killer case

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has previously said that the man sought in the 40-year-old case was tied to 12 slayings, 45 rapes and more than 120 burglaries in and around Sacramento, the eastern San Francisco Bay area and Southern California.

Apr 27, 2018

Quack chops off infant's genitals to prove it's a girl, manhunt launched

The quack performed an ultrasound on a woman and said she would give birth to a girl. However, when a boy was born, he allegedly severed the baby's genitals to prove that his 'sex determination test' was right.

Apr 26, 2018

Asaram followers pray for release before sentence is pronounced

The Jodhpur Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Court will pronounce its verdict on Asaram rape case on Wednesday. Security has been beefed up ahead of the verdict.

Apr 25, 2018