Murder: News

13 Aug 2018

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu: French tourist found murdered, one arrested

A 50-year-old French tourist was found murdered in Avikkottai village in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district, police said today.

11 Aug 2018

World

Albania: Police hunt for man who killed eight relatives

A man who shot dead eight of his relatives, including two children, remains on the run and is armed and "dangerous", Albanian police said.

Aarushi-Hemraj double-murder: SC to hear CBI appeal against parents' release

Ten years after their daughter Aarushi was killed, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar are still fighting to clear their name in the ghastly crime.

09 Aug 2018

Pakistan News

Pakistani singer-actor shot-dead as she refused to return to husband

In yet another incident of violence against female artistes in Pakistan, Reshma, a popular Pashto actress and singer, was shot dead by her husband in her brother's home.

'He'd have helped you understand': Kuchibhotla's widow tells his murderer

Sunayana Dumala, widow of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla who was shot dead in the US, told the murderer that if he had just kept his anger aside, "Srinu would have been happy to...help you understand that not every brown-skinned person is suspicious or evil."

07 Aug 2018

Canada

Canada: Sikh man shot dead outside home, cousin injured

A 19-year-old Sikh man, Gagandeep Singh Dhaliwal, was shot dead outside his home and his cousin was injured by unidentified persons in an apparent targeted shooting in Canada's Abbotsford, police said.

06 Aug 2018

Tamil Nadu

Class-X boy kills aunt, tries making it look like suicide

In a shocking incident, a Class X student killed his aunt in her Aminjikarai house in Tamil Nadu on Friday and tried to make it look like suicide by slitting her wrist.

06 Aug 2018

Delhi University

Delhi: Man's headless, armless body found in bag near DU

Sunday started out on a real sore note for this man, who found a black plastic bag near the Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa college bus stop in Delhi University's North Campus.

05 Aug 2018

India

Delhi: Married man kills his live-in partner, arrested

A 35-year-old man was arrested yesterday for allegedly killing his live-in partner, who was pressurizing him to divorce his wife and get married to her, the police said.

04 Aug 2018

Rajasthan

Rajasthan: Man attempts suicide after killing wife, minor children

A man allegedly killed his wife and two minor children before attempting suicide in Rajasthan's Dholpur district.

04 Aug 2018

Madhya Pradesh

Woman dies as husband stuffs her nose, mouth with glue

A 35-year-old woman died of suffocation after her husband allegedly stuffed a strong adhesive in her mouth, nose, and eyes.

04 Aug 2018

Vijay Kumar

Delhi: Mother of two girls, kills third new-born daughter

In a shocking incident, a 32-year-old woman allegedly killed her new-born child at a West Delhi hospital because she didn't want another daughter. The accused identified as Reeta Devi claimed she was 'out of her senses'.

02 Aug 2018

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh: Man kills minor-girlfriend because she refused to talk

Enraged because she refused to talk to him, a 22-year-old man allegedly killed a minor girl at Tilgavan village in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

02 Aug 2018

Bihar

Bihar: 40-year-old murders young wife, sleeps with corpse for days

A Bihar-based man killed his wife and slept with her dead body for almost a week, but was tipped off when neighbors and relatives complained of a foul smell emanating from his residence.

02 Aug 2018

India

UP: Father kills daughter who wanted inter-caste marriage

A 21-year-old woman was strangled to death by her father, who was against her decision to marry a man from another caste, in Daulatpur village of UP's Lakhimpur Kheri district, police said today.

02 Aug 2018

Delhi

Delhi: Man murders wife on her birthday,2-year-old son sole witness

This Delhi woman wasn't expecting a 'gift' like this on her birthday.

01 Aug 2018

Mumbai

Mumbai: Married man stabs girlfriend 14 times suspecting cheating

A father's hunch helped Mumbai police crack a murder case within four hours.

01 Aug 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra: Lover stabs woman to death for refusing to marry

A 28-year-old man, Suraj Chavan, was arrested in Maharashtra's Nashik district for allegedly stabbing to death a 21-year-old woman after she refused to marry him.

31 Jul 2018

Odisha

Odisha: Man arrested for killing couple, raping their daughter

A man, who had allegedly killed a woman and raped her daughter in Odisha's Bhadrak district, was arrested and today he confessed to murdering the girl's father as well, police said.

31 Jul 2018

Gujarat

Man kills two sons, attempts suicide after fight with wife

Apparently upset over marital-discord, a 28-year-old man allegedly killed his two minor sons by throwing them into a well and later tried to commit suicide.

30 Jul 2018

Australia

Australia: Teenage girl charged with murder of Indian student

A teenage girl was charged with murder and intentionally causing serious injury in Australia for killing an Indian student, she had met through a dating app.

30 Jul 2018

Uttar Pradesh

UP: Teenage girl set afire by scorned lover in Lucknow

A 17-year-old girl was set ablaze allegedly by a jilted lover in the Alamnagar area in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, police said today.

30 Jul 2018

West Bengal

Delhi: He shot her dead to prove gun was real

After being on the run for two days, a man who 'accidentally' shot a woman in Shahdara's Dilshad Garden was finally arrested on Friday.

28 Jul 2018

West Bengal

West Bengal: Local BJP leader killed by unidentified miscreants

A local BJP leader in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in Mandir Bazar area.

28 Jul 2018

India

Delhi man kills woman to prove he has real gun

A man was arrested for allegedly killing a woman in Delhi's Dilshad Garden area.

27 Jul 2018

Ola

Delhi: Body of missing Ola driver found with head injuries

The body of a 34-year-old Ola cab driver, who was reported missing since July 24, was found in Haiderpur canal in Delhi.

26 Jul 2018

Australia

After date, Indian-student found dead in girl's house in Australia

A 25-year-old Indian student in Melbourne, Australia was found dead in the house of a girl he met on a dating site.

25 Jul 2018

Punjab

Man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 6-year-old girl

A court in Punjab's Mansa district today awarded death sentence to a man, Kala Ram, in connection with the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in 2016, describing the case as "rarest of rare".

25 Jul 2018

India

13 years later, two cops get death for Udayakumar's custodial-murder

Today, two policemen were sentenced to death for the 2005 custodial death of 26-year-old Udayakumar.

22 Jul 2018

Ludhiana

Ludhiana: Father disapproves daughter's relationship, she schemes murder with mother

The police have arrested the daughter, boyfriend, and wife of a murdered railway employee, Kuldeep Kumar.

22 Jul 2018

Narendra Modi

Alwar: Family's sole bread-winner killed by 'gau-rakshaks.' Minister cries 'conspiracy'

Yesterday, Rakbar Khan's family in Mewat, Haryana, was eagerly awaiting him. After he returned home, Asmina, his wife, planned to cook biryani, his favorite.

21 Jul 2018

Odisha

Man wanted in 2014 murder-case caught by Himachal Pradesh Police

The Himachal Pradesh Police today claimed to have caught a man, who was a proclaimed offender in a murder case registered four years ago in Odisha.

Gauri Lankesh murder: SIT arrests 7th suspect in Bengaluru

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh has arrested the seventh suspect in the case, investigating officer MN Ancheth said.

Gurugram school murder: SC rejects bail of accused juvenile

The Supreme Court today rejected a bail plea of a juvenile, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy in a private school in Gurugram.

20 Jul 2018

India

Delhi: Schoolmates assault Class 11 boy to death over "enmity"

A 17-year-old Class 11 student was allegedly beaten to death by a group of students, including his classmates, in Delhi's Jyoti Nagar over some "personal enmity," police said yesterday.

19 Jul 2018

Haryana

Gurugram: Realtor shot at as his twin-kids watched from school-bus

On Wednesday morning, a realtor named Mahesh Yadav was shot dead by five men, including two of his own cousins. Unfortunately, the murder was witnessed by his nine-year-old twins.

19 Jul 2018

West Bengal

West Bengal: Parents kill newborn fearing mockery by family members

A 47-year-old daily wage laborer and his wife allegedly killed their newborn baby girl in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district over the fear of being taunted by their children and grandchildren, Inspector-in-Charge of Maynaguri police station, Nandakumar Dutta said.

US: Indian student Sharath Koppu's killer had long criminal record

The man who killed 25-year-old Indian student Sharath Koppu in United States' Kansas City had an extensive criminal background and was just 15 when he was first arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2009.

19 Jul 2018

Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh: Man electrocutes wife's private-parts suspecting affair, kills her

A man, who serves as a cook in Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF), was taken into custody for allegedly killing his wife by electrocuting her, after he suspected she was having an extra-marital affair.

18 Jul 2018

Gorakhpur

UP: Son kills mother, pierces eyes, for not giving money

In a horrific incident, a 30-year-old man allegedly killed his mother late on Monday night in Sonbarsa village, about 20 km from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, for not giving him money.