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MUMBAI: An alert citizen recently caught on camera an elderly man having unnatural sex with a stray dog at Azad Nagar in Mumbra. The video was first shared with some of the animal activists, and later the People for Animals (PFA) lodged an FIR against the accused man at the Mumbra police station.The president of PFA-Mumbai, Vijay Rangare, who is an honorary animal welfare officer, told TOI: "The accused...

THANE: A Bhiwandi-resident was acquitted by a special POCSO court in Maharashtra's Thane in a rape case. The 28-year-old man was accused of abducting a Class IX girl on July 30, 2013 and raping her at his sister's house for three days. As per the prosecution, he had raped the victim in the houses of his kin in Bhiwandi and Shahapur as well. Her father filed a complaint with Padga police station in...

THANE: sentatA cyberfraudster has been booked for allegedly draining Rs 7.7 lakh from the account of a 29-year-old banker after luring him in a part time job of ‘promoting and subscribing YouTube videos’. The police said the victim, a resident of Budhaji Nagar, was lured by a woman who had sent him a message about a part time job on WhatsApp. The scamster told him that she is from a ‘private...

Thane: The Thane ACB has arrested a senior clerk of Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a man for registering him as a contractor with the government body.The accused has been identified as Sripat Khade (52) who is attached to the office of MJP in Thane, informed an ACB official.The complainant had approached the accused and had asked him...

THANE: A 43-year-old resident received minor burn injuries while trying to douse fire in his neighbourhood in the Poundpada chawl tenement in Kalwa east, Friday evening, officials informed.Yasin Tadvi, in-charge at the Thane Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) said a fire broke out following a gas leakage from the domestic gas cylinder nozzle in one of the tenement in the Shanti chawl around...

CHENNAI: A lovesick man drank poison at the house of a woman after she and her parents turned down his marriage proposal in Chengalpet on Friday. Even as the shocked family was watching him emptying the poison he had brought along, Karthik, 30, attempted to stab the woman.In the melee that followed, an aunt of the woman suffered a stab injury on her neck in her bid to foil his assault. Karthik died...

GURGAON: Gurgaon Police on Thursday arrested a man accused of opening fire and injuring a man during the communal violence in Haryana's Nuh, officials said on Thursday.The police, acting on an FIR registered on July 31 at Sohna City police station, arrested Mohammad Kaif.A Vishva Hindu Parishad-led procession was attacked by mobs in Nuh on July 31. Six people were killed, most of them during the attack....

THANE: A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting a housewife and her child and extorting money from her husband seven years ago. In her order on Wednesday, additional sessions judge Rachna Tehra, in Maharashtra's Thane district, imposed a fine of Rs 500 on convict Manikandan Selvaraj Nadar, a resident of Diva.The court also acquitted another accused in...

NEW DELHI: A history-sheeter shot the mother of his live-in partner when she intervened in the couple's fight over keeping a pet dog.The 40-year-old woman, Kanchan, was shot in central Delhi's DBG Road on Saturday. The suspect, Aalok, is on the run.Police said Kanchan had intervened in a fight between her 22-year-old daughter and Aalok regarding their pet dog Spitzy. An investigation has revealed that...

THANE: Nineteen years after a homemaker was raped, a rickshaw driver has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the district court in Thane. Additional Sessions Judge Dr Rachna R Tehra convicted the accused Ramashankar Shukla, 52, and imposed a fine of Rs 5,500. Prosecutor EB Dhamal, informed the court that the victim lived in Nerul in Navi Mumbai and the accused also resided in...