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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...

NEW DELHI: A man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in east Delhi's New Ashok Nagar area, police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Farman (33), a resident of Mayur Vihar Phase-1, they said.The victim, in her complaint lodged on Friday, alleged that Farman sexually assaulted her by extending threats of causing harm to her parents, a senior police officer...

MUMBAI: A 64-year-old retired MTNL employee, who was undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder, allegedly stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife and then hanged himself in his Mulund flat on Thursday. Navghar police have filed an attempt to murder case against the deceased, Palani Yadav. His wife Kavita (54) is in the ICU at Fortis Hospital. The couple's daughter Dhania (34) said she reached home after...

GHAZIABAD(UP): A 26-year-old man allegedly shot dead his girlfriend before dying by suicide after consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Thursday, police said. They said Rahul Chowdhary allegedly shot dead Deepmala Yadav (24) with a countrymade pistol at her home in Ghukna village, which falls under Nandgram police station, Thursday morning when her parents had gone to a temple. He then...

THANE: A 34-year-old man who brutally murdered his brother in 2018 and chopped his body into pieces was convicted by a court in Maharashtra on Wednesday and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Thane district and sessions court judge Rachna Tehra also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on the convict, Simon Patrav.The judge noted that the prosecution has proved all the charges against the accused and he needs to...

MUMBAI: The west region Cyber police is probing a case where an unidentified cyber fraudster used a 'man-in-the middle' (MITM) attack modus operandi, created a fake email ID, similar to a Portugal-based company's, and duped a Mumbai company of Rs 54 lakh.In the MITM attack, a cyber attacker generally impersonates one of the two parties interacting and sends a message to the other party that believes it...