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Ghaziabad police registered murder case after charred body found in burnt auto in Loni

Police said they are scanning CCTV footage of the area, which could provide them clues about the incident.
Updated on Jan 17, 2026 03:19 am IST

Destruction of evidence case: HC dismisses 2 Chandigarh cops’ pleas for quashing of CBI FIR

Gavel and law books (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Published on Sept 02, 2025 07:42 am IST

Pune drug party: Police tells court messages from phone with Khewalkar erased

The police, while opposing the bail, said Khewalkar had been using a mobile number registered in someone else’s name since 2012. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)
Published on Aug 26, 2025 05:40 am IST

2015 fake encounter: Cops in plain clothes firing upon car driver cannot be considered as official duty: SC

The conduct of police personnel surrounding a civilian vehicle in plain clothes and jointly firing upon its occupant cannot be considered under duties of public order or effecting lawful arrest, the Supreme Court has said, dismissing a plea of nine Punjab cops to quash murder charges against them in an alleged fake encounter case. (Shutterstock/ Representational image)
Published on Jun 16, 2025 07:58 am IST

Police personnel in plain clothes firing upon car driver cannot be considered as official duty: SC

Police personnel in plain clothes firing upon car driver cannot be considered as official duty: SC
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 11:09 pm IST

3 Chandigarh cops arrested for harbouring UP ATM heist accused

The arrested trio will be produced in court in Chandigarh on Thursday. (HT File)
Published on Mar 27, 2025 10:14 am IST

Porsche crash: Juvenile’s parents, another accused to stay in police custody

The prosecution sought extension of the police custody of the trio arguing that they want to find out where the blood samples of the juvenile were disposed of. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jun 10, 2024 11:32 pm IST

1994 fake encounter: SIT adds charges of murder, evidence destruction to FIR

The SIT was constituted on a 2013 plea of Dalbir Kaur whose husband Sukhpal Singh was killed allegedly in a fake encounter by Punjab Police.
Updated on Oct 07, 2023 07:02 am IST

Three years on, Ghaziabad police establish identity of murdered man

The suspect in custody. (Sakib Ali / HT Photo)
Updated on May 04, 2023 11:37 pm IST

Ragpicker crushed by excavator in Delhi’s Ranhola, driver nabbed

Ragpicker crushed by excavator in Delhi’s Ranhola, driver nabbed
Updated on Apr 13, 2023 11:33 pm IST

IAS officer must face culpable homicide trial for road accident that killed journalist: Kerala high court

The Kerala high court said IAS officer Sriram Venkitaraman should be tried for culpable homicide in a 2019 accident case (Agencies/Representative use)
Updated on Apr 13, 2023 11:07 pm IST

Delhi: Murder convict jumps Covid parole, murders girlfriend; nabbed after two years

Deepak killed his girlfriend, Chanchal, at a hotel room in Sultanpur and stabbed her to death. He had been convicted in a 2010 kidnapping and murder case. (HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 08, 2023 11:02 pm IST

Delhi's Sultanpuri hit-and-drag case: Chargesheet cites 117 witnesses

Protests over the case at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 09, 2023 01:33 pm IST

Kerala nun murder case: Witness says she was forced to retract her statement

One of the witnesses in the 27-year-old case of the murder of Catholic nun Sister Abhaya said in a court on Tuesday she was forced by church authorities and others to not to depose against the accused.
Published on Sept 17, 2019 05:07 pm IST

Didn’t kill son, Oshiwara murderaccused tells court

After being charged with murdering his son on Tuesday night, Srinivas Ganji maintained he was innocent when produced in court on Wednesday.
Published on Jul 25, 2019 12:50 am IST

Dr Payal Tadvi suicide case: Doctors destroyed suicide note, cops say in charge sheet

Dr Payal Tadvi, a postgraduate student at Mumbai’s BYL Nair Hospital was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room on May 22 this year.
Updated on Jul 24, 2019 01:13 am IST

Convict in Scarlett Keeling case sentenced to 10-yr jail

Samson D'Souza, accused in the Scarlett Keeling murder case, leaves surrounded by policemen after being sentenced to ten year imprisonment by the Bombay High Court in Goa on July 19, 2019. - An Indian court on July 19 sent a bartender to jail for 10 years over the sexual assault and killing of British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach in 2008.
Published on Jul 20, 2019 01:55 am IST

50-year-old teacher held for raping 4-year-old in Punjab school

A 50-year-old school teacher was arrested for allegedly raping a 4-year-old girl on the school campus
Published on Jul 14, 2019 01:35 am IST

Kathua rape, murder case: Family of girl to move court for stiffer punishment to convicts

Activists-hold-placards-during-a-rally-organised-by-The-Red-Brigade-Bring-Bangalore-Back-to-protest-against-the-recent-incidents-of-sexual-abuse-molestation-and-rapes-against-women-in-Bangalore-AFP-photo
Updated on Jul 10, 2019 06:39 pm IST

Alwar man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 5-year-old

A court in Rajasthan’s Alwar sentenced a man to death on Tuesday for raping a 5-year-old and killing the girl by crushing her head with stone.
Updated on Jun 12, 2019 07:08 pm IST

After Kathua case acquittal, Jangotra plans counter suit

The family of one of the accused acquitted in the rape and the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua has said they were planning to file a malicious prosecution suit over his “false implication”.
Published on Jun 12, 2019 12:10 am IST

NCW chairperson demands death penalty for Kathua gang rape-murder case convicts

NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma Monday demanded capital punishment for the six convicts in the sensational Kathua gang rape-murder case
Published on Jun 11, 2019 12:04 pm IST

3 men sentenced to life for rape, murder of 8-year-old Kathua girl

Sanji Ram, one of the six men convicted in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
Updated on Jun 11, 2019 06:56 am IST

HC strikes down 26-yr-old’s death sentence for rape, murder of minor

The judges noted that the post mortem report cited traumatic asphyxia as the reason for her death which could have been caused by an accident.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 03:24 pm IST

Supreme Court asks CBI to give evidence for interrogation of Kolkata ex-top cop

The court directed the CBI to submit an affidavit with all the details in the court by Wednesday.
Updated on Apr 30, 2019 11:41 pm IST

15-year-old killed by mother, brother over relationship

The locals said that the family had moved to their newly rented house in Sangam Vihar three days ago.
Published on Apr 19, 2019 05:55 am IST

Nithari killings: Surinder Koli given death penalty in 10th case

A CBI court on Saturday awarded the death penalty to Surinder Koli for murdering and then dismembering the body of a 14-year-old girl, one of the victims in the infamous Nithari killing case. sakib ali/ ht file
Published on Mar 03, 2019 01:25 am IST

Surinder Koli convicted in 10th Nithari rape-murder case, sentencing today

Surinder Koli has been so far chargesheeted and convicted of rape and murder in 10 out of 16 cases. The hearing on the quantum of punishment is scheduled to take place on Saturday. . (Photo by Sakib Ali /Hindustan Times)
Published on Mar 02, 2019 01:37 am IST