A man, locked up in a room in his house for months on the pretext he was suffering from mental illness, hacked to death five members of his own family in a fit of rage.
An assistant sub inspector (ASI) of police, posted at Bathanaha police station of north Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly having unnatural sex with a nine-year-old boy.
Two persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the alleged gang rape a 22-year-old college student on Mandar hill in Banka district of south-eastern Bihar, about 45 kilometres from Bhagalpur, late Tuesday.
A bridegroom was shot dead by unidentified assailants in a Bihar village late Tuesday, minutes before he was to be married, police said today.
The contest at the Maharajganj Lok Sabha constituency, where a bypoll is scheduled on June 2, will be triangular.
Sikkim police have arrested all the seven accused, including son of a senior IAS officer, on charges of killing Rakshit Singh Meena, a third year engineering student, after a fight outside a pub-cum-night club at Gangtok on Sunday.

For Shivdeep Waman Lande, the former famous city SP of Patna, his special status of being ‘popular with the masses’ and ‘the most eligible bachelor in town’ have started troubling him, thanks to others, and he is not amused.
Mukesh Kumar Mishra reports.
Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) legislator Sanjay Singh Monday filed a defamation case against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad for allegedly using unparliamentary language against him.
A hardcore criminal lodged at Araria jail has demanded Rs. 10 crore from the BJP MP from Araria, Pradeep Kumar Singh, threatening ti kill him if he failed to pay.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that granting special status to the state will accelerate economic growth in the country.
Controversial former RJD MP Pappu Yadav was today acquitted by the Patna High Court in CPI(M) leader Ajit Sarkar murder case for want of evidence.
Former chief minister, Lalu Prasad sought to re-emerge from his political hibernation of the last six years with a Parivartan rally in Patna on Wednesday, underlining strongly that he may be down but never out of touch with Bihar.

The buyer married the woman just hours after she came into his ‘possession’ and was on his way to UP with her, when the woman was rescued by the police with the help of an NGO.
Aditya Nath Jha reports.
Indian Railways got a boost to its business, thanks to former railway minister Lalu Prasad, whose party Rashtriya Janata Dal, has hired 13 special trains to ferry workers and supporters to Patna for his Parivartan Rally here May 15.
After spending nine years in a prison in Pakistan, Indian prisoner Khushbu Paswan has reached his native village in Bihar's Rohtas district, a senior police officer said today.