Tikku Murder Case

The hotel owner charged with murder of a government official in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli, after initial attempts to block the demolition team by threatening suicide, had deployed his workers too for the job. But after the lunch break, Shail Bala entered the guest house along with a forest ranger and labourer without informing her team leader.

Sanji Ram, the main accused in the rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Kathua told the Supreme Court that he was innocent and the probe should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, to get the real culprits.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

In a move to cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said such incidents could not be part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away. "As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolt...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

Shyamvar Rai, the former driver of Indrani Mukerjea, told a court today that she had spoken to her husband during a recce of the spot in a forest near Mumbai where Sheena Bora's body was later dumped, according to news agency ANI. The driver's statement backs up the Central Bureau of Investigation on its allegation that the former media tycoon was ...

The Class 11 student of Ryan International School arrested last month by the CBI for allegedly killing seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur in school premises will remain in custody. A Gurgaon court today rejected the bail request from the teenager but put off a crucial ruling on his trial to next Thursday.

Indrani Mukerjea, jailed in Mumbai on charges of murdering her daughter, appeared to be pointing an accusing finger at her husband on Wednesday, telling a Mumbai court that Peter Mukerjea could have abducted her daughter in 2012 and "made her untraceable".

Nupur Talwar found innocent of murdering her teenage daughter by the Allahabad High Court, wanted to start a NGO in her child Aarushi's name that could work for children. Her family expects the Noida-based dentist couple to walk out to freedom from Dasna jail in Uttar Pradesh by tomorrow evening.

The 30-year-old man, alleged to have stabbed 16-year-old Junaid Khanon in a train in Haryana a fortnight back, had hoped to put the murder behind him and found himself a job in a factory in Maharashtra's Dhule. He initially went to his relatives in Mathura and Vrindavan, and later got in touch with a relative in Maharashtra, who helped get him a jo...

A 23-year-old woman was gang-raped, her head smashed with a brick and a vehicle run over her before the body was dumped in Haryana's Rohtak this week. She lay in the vacant plot for four days before someone spotted her; the skull was in pieces and stray dogs had bitten off parts of her body.

In a major breakthrough, police today claimed to have collected evidence to show that Vijay Palande, gangster and key accused in sensational murder cases, had coaxed Bollywood actor Anuj Tikku to pen down a suicide note after drugging him in a bid to eliminate him and then stage it as a suicide.

In what could be his most shocking revelation yet, Vijay Palande, accused in the murder cases of Arun Tikku and Karan Kakkad, has confessed to the Crime Branch that Gautam Vora featured prominently on his hitlist, and that he planned to murder the stockbroker after eliminating actor Anuj Tikku.

The hotel owner charged with murder of a government official in Himachal Pradesh's Kasauli, after initial attempts to block the demolition team by threatening suicide, had deployed his workers too for the job. But after the lunch break, Shail Bala entered the guest house along with a forest ranger and labourer without informing her team leader.

Sanji Ram, the main accused in the rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl in Kathua told the Supreme Court that he was innocent and the probe should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, to get the real culprits.

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

In a move to cap the spiralling public anger over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said such incidents could not be part of any civilised society and promised to make sure that the culprits do not get away. "As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it (rapes)," PM Modi said of the crimes that have jolt...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

Army soldiers charged with murder over the death of three civilians were "provoked to the ultimate", a top army commander in Jammu and Kashmir said on Wednesday, signaling his disapproval of the Mehbooba Mufti government naming an army officer in the police case for last week's firing at protesters that has cost three lives. Rayees Ahmad, 19, was t...

Shyamvar Rai, the former driver of Indrani Mukerjea, told a court today that she had spoken to her husband during a recce of the spot in a forest near Mumbai where Sheena Bora's body was later dumped, according to news agency ANI. The driver's statement backs up the Central Bureau of Investigation on its allegation that the former media tycoon was ...

The Class 11 student of Ryan International School arrested last month by the CBI for allegedly killing seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur in school premises will remain in custody. A Gurgaon court today rejected the bail request from the teenager but put off a crucial ruling on his trial to next Thursday.

Indrani Mukerjea, jailed in Mumbai on charges of murdering her daughter, appeared to be pointing an accusing finger at her husband on Wednesday, telling a Mumbai court that Peter Mukerjea could have abducted her daughter in 2012 and "made her untraceable".

Nupur Talwar found innocent of murdering her teenage daughter by the Allahabad High Court, wanted to start a NGO in her child Aarushi's name that could work for children. Her family expects the Noida-based dentist couple to walk out to freedom from Dasna jail in Uttar Pradesh by tomorrow evening.

The 30-year-old man, alleged to have stabbed 16-year-old Junaid Khanon in a train in Haryana a fortnight back, had hoped to put the murder behind him and found himself a job in a factory in Maharashtra's Dhule. He initially went to his relatives in Mathura and Vrindavan, and later got in touch with a relative in Maharashtra, who helped get him a jo...

A 23-year-old woman was gang-raped, her head smashed with a brick and a vehicle run over her before the body was dumped in Haryana's Rohtak this week. She lay in the vacant plot for four days before someone spotted her; the skull was in pieces and stray dogs had bitten off parts of her body.

In a major breakthrough, police today claimed to have collected evidence to show that Vijay Palande, gangster and key accused in sensational murder cases, had coaxed Bollywood actor Anuj Tikku to pen down a suicide note after drugging him in a bid to eliminate him and then stage it as a suicide.

In what could be his most shocking revelation yet, Vijay Palande, accused in the murder cases of Arun Tikku and Karan Kakkad, has confessed to the Crime Branch that Gautam Vora featured prominently on his hitlist, and that he planned to murder the stockbroker after eliminating actor Anuj Tikku.