A 43-year-old private school teacher was arrested on the charges of sexually assaulting a Class 9 boy in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.

The accused, identified as Sudhakar (43), was a Tamil teacher at the school.

He was arrested after a case was registered against him under three sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The incident came to light when the boy developed health complications.

Concerned about the boy's condition, his parents enquired, and the child alleged that Sudhakar had sexually harassed him.

A software engineer was found brutally murdered by unknown persons in Andhra Pradesh's Vizianagaram district on Tuesday.

The body of Konari Prasad (28) was found near Nemalam village in Therlam mandal.

The techie was returning to Nemalam village from the house of his grandparents in Buripeta village on his motorbike on Monday night when unidentified persons attacked him.

The assailants attacked Prasad on his head. The body bore injuries on other parts as well.

Prasad, who was employed in a software company in Bangalore, had come to the village three days ago.

A Class 9 student who was assaulted by his classmate inside their school bus in Salem’s Edappadi passed away on Tuesday.

The police have filed a case against the accused schoolboy and an enquiry is underway.

According to Salem police, the deceased boy has been identified as Saravanan (14), the son of a railway employee in Edappadi’s Vellandivalasu area.

The classmate who has been accused of perpetrating the grievous attack is also from the same neighbourhood.

The smuggling of drugs from Myanmar into India's northeastern states continues unabated, with Tripura Police seizing narcotics worth over Rs 30 crore in the past 48 hours and arresting three drug peddlers, officials said on Tuesday.

An official stated that police in Dhalai district intercepted a truck carrying 9.24 lakh Yaba tablets worth Rs 28 crore and arrested the driver and his assistant, both residents of Assam.

Dhalai Superintendent of Police Mihir Lal Das said the Agartala-bound truck, coming from Assam, was stopped at a checkpoint in Ambassa. Upon inspection, the highly addictive Yaba tablets, also known as methamphetamine pills, were found concealed inside the truck’s oil tanker. The arrested individuals are being interrogated to identify the key figures behind the drug trafficking network, he added.

Earlier on Monday, Tripura Police had intercepted another vehicle in North Tripura district, recovering 50,000 Yaba tablets worth Rs 2.5 crore from a hidden compartment and arresting the driver.

A tragic road accident in Rajasthan's Dudu claimed eight lives and left six others injured as a Roadways bus lost control due to a tyre burst and collided with a car which was coming from the other side, an official said on Thursday. The accident occurred on Thursday in Mokhampura on the Jaipur-Ajmer highway when a bus jumped off the divider after losing control due to tyre burst and crashed into the car coming from the opposite side.

In a shocking incident, a man stabbed his wife to death in broad daylight near his son’s school, in full public view, in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

The incident took place in Vinayakanagar, Hebbagodi, near Anekal town. The deceased has been identified as 29-year-old Sriganga, and the accused husband as Mohanraj. The accused has been arrested by the police.

According to the police, Sriganga and Mohanraj had been married for seven years and have a six-year-old son. Two years ago, Mohanraj suspected his wife of having a relationship with one of his friends, leading to frequent quarrels. The couple had been living separately for the past eight months.

On Tuesday night, Mohanraj had visited his wife’s residence to see his child, during which an argument broke out between them. On Wednesday morning, while Sriganga was riding her bike to drop their son off at school, Mohanraj, who was waiting for her, intercepted and attacked her in the middle of the road. He stabbed her repeatedly, near the school premises.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police on Wednesday arrested a couple in a Rs 1.3 crore bank fraud case, said a senior EOW official.

The accused couple identified as Ashirbad Pattnaik and his wife Manogyan Pattnaik were nabbed from the Patia area in Bhubaneswar.

The EOW sleuths apprehended the couple on the basis of a complaint lodged by Sushant Nayak, the regional head of the Financial Crime Prevention Group, ICICI Bank.

As per the complaint, accused Ashirbad, had availed a loan of Rs 3.79 crore from the local branch of a public sector bank in the name of his farm, “AB Solutions” located at Jaydev Vihar area of the city in January 2018.

He had mortgaged two flats and one duplex registered in the name of accused Ashirbad and Manogyan to avail loan from PSU bank.

The murder case of Rajasthan’s Jodhpur-based beautician, who was murdered last year, has been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for further investigation.

The beautician, Anita, whose murder sent shockwaves across Rajasthan, was killed on October 30, 2024.

Initially, the police had filed a charge sheet in court on January 30, 2025, naming only Ghulamuddin and his wife, Abida, as the accused. However, in the CBI FIR registered on Monday, property dealer Tayyab Ansari and Anita’s friend Sunita have also been implicated.

Ansari’s alleged political connections have raised concerns among the victim's family, who claim that his influence hindered a fair investigation. A CBI team is expected to arrive in Jodhpur within the next couple of days to begin its inquiry.

In a major Regional Transport Office operation, 30 luxury cars, including Ferrari and Porsche, were seized for alleged tax evasion in Bengaluru.

The seizure of luxury cars is done for non-payment of taxes by the owners, an RTO official said on Monday.

The seized vehicles were registered in different states but illegally driven in Karnataka.

In three back-to-back dacoities in J&K’s Jammu division, armed robbers looted 1.5 Kg gold from a jewellery showroom, Rs 50,000 cash from a shop and Rs 19 lakh from a bank.

On Saturday, two armed robbers entered a jewellery shop in Greater Kailash area of Jammu city.

They came on a motorcycle, took the shop owner hostage, broke the show windows and decamped with gold weighing 1.5 Kgs in broad daylight.

On Sunday, thieves forced open the shutters of another shop in Jammu city and took away Rs 50,000 found in the counter drawer of the shop.