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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: Crime

Wife of late ex-Union minister P Rangarajan Kumaramangalam found murdered at Delhi home

Police said they suspect attempted robbery to be the motive behind the killing of Kitty Kumaramangalam and have apprehended a 24-year-old washerman in connection with the case.

Property, debt, ransom — why Agra man was choked with lamination paper, cremated as Covid dead

Friends plot murder of 25-year-old Sachin Chauhan over Rs 10-crore property, Rs 40 lakh IPL betting money and in the hope of Rs 2-crore ransom, police claim.

Muzaffarpur to Mexico City — Lockdowns reduced urban crime by over a third around the globe

This hibernation of crime in public spaces was relatively short lived. Crime levels started to creep up again a few weeks after lockdowns began.

Delhi High Court grants anticipatory bail to journalist Varun Hiremath in rape case

The complainant has alleged that she was raped by Hiremath at a five-star hotel in Chanakyapuri on 20 February.

Slain family, woman & lover on death row, boy born in jail — this Amroha home has a gory story

The house was inhabited by Shaukat Ali and his family until his daughter Shabnam killed all of them — including her 11-month-old nephew — in conspiracy with her lover Saleem in 2008. 

UP man arrested for allegedly raping teenage girl, sharing video of act on social media

In her complaint, the girl said that the accused raped her several times in the past one year and threatened dire consequences if she reported the matter to anyone.

‘UP crushing Dalits, human rights’ — Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi target govt over Unnao deaths

Rahul Gandhi said Congress will endeavour to get justice for the 2 teenage girls found dead in Unnao while Priyanka Gandhi demanded the third girl be shifted to Delhi for treatment.

Lawyer couple stabbed to death in Telangana

G Vaman Rao and his wife, both practicing lawyers in the Telangana High Court, were travelling in a car when they were attacked with knives.

18-year-old killed outside school in Punjab’s Batala over property dispute

The police said the victim suffered injuries to his head, neck and chest after being attacked with shard-edged weapons.

Over 17,000 FIRs filed in 2020 for crime on trains, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal says

The minister, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha Wednesday, said 54,552 FIRs were registered in 2019, and 55,780 in 2018.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?