Rejecting the plea of insanity, the Bombay High Court today upheld the conviction of a State Transport bus driver who had mowed down nine persons and injured 35 others in Pune in January 2012.
Making a breakthrough in the battered baby Falak case, the Delhi police on Saturday arrested the prime suspect, who allegedly handed over the child to his 14-year-old girlfriend. Taxi driver Raj Kumar was arrested early on Saturday morning after weeks of manhunt. The police have been on the lookout for Kumar since January 18, when the minor girl got the baby admitted to AIIMS. The girl, who is allegedly involved in a prostitution racket, was also arrested along with Kumar.
A rickshaw-puller was killed and two other persons were seriously injured when a 19-year-old drunk car driver lost control over the vehicle and rammed it into a two-wheeler, a rickshaw and a passerby in East Delhi's Anand Vihar area on Saturday, the police said.
Five youths who allegedly teased a woman tourist from Norway in a private bus were arrested in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday.
He said the objective of the prime accused Mohammed Shariq was to create a divide between communities.
In a case of drunk driving, a man allegedly rammed his car into a scooter and later into another four wheeler in the uptown Malabar Hill area in Mumbai, killing one person and leaving another injured, police said.
In a statement issued late in the evening, Delhi Police's Public Relations Officer (PRO) Suman Nalwa said two men were apprehended, the remaining suspects have been identified and raids are being conducted to arrest them.
However, the whereabouts of Amritpal and his associate Papalpreet Singh remain unknown.
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The 32-year-old driver of the cab, which hit Union Minister Gopinath Munde's car in the wee hours in New Dehli on Tuesday at an intersection leading to his death, was allegedly speeding and had jumped the red light, according to police.
A driver, working for US-based cab service provider Uber, was remanded in police custody for three days by a Delhi court for allegedly raping a 27-year-old woman executive in New Delhi on Friday night.
Three persons have been arrested for the daring broad day light heist in which around Rs 8 crore had been looted in Lajpat Nagar area on New Delhi on Tuesday.
'Could the Khar police and the CBI have tinkered with the driver's call data records?' 'And did their fiddling with the information not make it that they were tampering with the lives of people that were in the balance as a result of this case?'
The 26-year-old was arrested and bailed on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, London police said.
A Delhi court on Thursday remanded the driver of US-based cab service provider Uber, arrested for allegedly raping a 27-year old woman executive in New Delhi, in judicial custody till December 24, amid a ruckus by striking lawyers.
A Sikh truck driver in the US has alleged that traffic police in Mississippi called him a "terrorist" and a county judge later humiliated him by describing his turban as "that rag."
Two men were killed when a "speeding" car linked to a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator hit their motorcycle in a head-on collision in Lakhimpur Kheri, the police said on Monday.
The three accused in the gang rape of a 30-year-old American national in Manali were arrested on Thursday.
'You don't want to admit that it is your wife in the video because she said you were arrested on Wednesday (August 19; Shyamvar Rai states he was arrested on August 21, a Friday).'
Two Australian men from Victoria, arrested for assaulting an Indian taxi driver, will be produced in court on Monday, in an incident that takes to four the number of attacks on Indian cabbies in three days. The incident happened on Friday night when the two men were picked up by a 23-year old Indian taxi driver in Geelong city. Robert Harvey, 25, and Andrew Madden, 24, allegedly attacked the driver, who suffered bruising and swelling to the face and head.
A 38-year-old married woman was allegedly gang-raped on a private bus here by three men, including the driver and conductor.
The accused were presented before special judge AK Lahoti, who remanded them to the custody of the NIA till August 12.
The son of Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Ravela Kishore Babu, and his driver have been arrested for allegedly misbehaving with a 20-year-old teacher.
Delhi Police on Wednesday filed in a court in New Delhi its charge sheet against a driver of US-based cab service provider Uber, 19 days after he allegedly raped a 27-year-old woman executive.
Five persons, including four teenagers, were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl for over a month.
Vineet Kumar had changed several hard disks before the search operation at its headquarters in Sirsa.
Gurvinder Nath was delivering pizza at around 2:10 am on July 9 in Mississauga's Britannia and Creditview roads, when unknown suspects confronted him and tried to steal his vehicle, CTV News channel reported.
A truck carrying a group of 54 migrant labourers and their families from Ahmedabad in Gujarat to Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh rammed into a stationary truck near Lalpur police post on Kanpur-Jhansi highway, killing three people and injuring 43 others.
A Pakistani diplomat and his driver were allegedly roughed up on Monday after his vehicle hit a motorcycle in south Delhi, police said.
Security was beefed up on Monday outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's south Mumbai residence after a taxi driver informed the police that two suspected passengers carrying bags with them had asked him about the location of 'Antilia', an official said.
Social media influencer Sapna Gill's allegation that Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw had molested her at a pub in suburban Andheri in Mumbai is "false and unfounded", the police told a court.
Sources said Mukerjea was arrested for 'shielding the accused' and 'inconsistencies' in his statements
Australian police on Tuesday arrested eight teenagers in connection with a spate of violent armed robberies targeting taxi drivers, including an Indian cabbie, in Melbourne's western suburbs. The youths, aged between 14 and 18 including one female, were arrested after a series of police raids on Tuesday morning.
The accused had been stalking the victim for four or five days and molested her when she was returning home after celebrating New Year
City Police Commissioner A K Khan said Zialul Haq, a taxi driver by profession, was trained in Pakistan and was planning to carry out blasts in Hyderabad.
The officer said the man who had typed out the letter was arrested from Ballygunge on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday had granted eight-week interim bail to him in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence which claimed eight lives.
"The case falls under the category of the rarest of rare, hence the accused is awarded death sentence... he must be hanged by his neck till he is dead," said Special Women's court judge Vrushali Joshi pronouncing the verdict.
Police sources said they are verifying the origin of this information.
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