Six held for highway crime
The anti-kidnapping cell of the Crime Branch has arrested six men in the belief that they are responsible for at least 15 cases of robbery, burglary and auto-theft, mostly on highways.

The police say three of the arrested men -- Suleman, Sanjeev Verma and Rajesh Kumar -- were planning a robbery in Hari Nagar and during interrogation named Deepak Kumar, Rajesh and Kuldeep as their associates. Typically, the gang would drug motorists with spiked alcohol and rob them.

The six accused also told the police that robbed a cashier of DD Motors, located in Raja Garden, in February this year while he was on his way to deposit cheques worth Rs 65 lakh.

Housewife murdered
An unidentified miscreant slitted the throat of a 28-year-old lady at her residence in the Vaishali area of Ghaziabad today. The lady was alone at home at the time of the incident.

Lavli, the wife of an engineer working at the NTPC office in Noida Arvind Saha, was found dead in her house this afternoon. Arvind had left his house 57A Gyan Khand, Vaishali, at around 9.30 in the morning after dropping leaving his daughter at her school. Arvind spoke to Lavli twice over phone at 10.30 am and 12.30 am. When he again rang up to Lavli, no one picked up the phone. Arvind then called up his neighbouring house and asked the family to enquire about lavli. Members of that family found the doors to Arvind's house open and Lavli's body lying in the bathroom.

Convict kills self
Humiliated by his imprisonment along with 15 members of his family in an abduction case, former sarpanch Chuttan of village Chandrakha under Punhana police station, ended his life by hanging himself in the Gurgaon jail premises. Chuttan was convicted along with his other family members in February this year. For a former sarpanch, the stigma was too much to bear and it finally got the better of him.