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The truck driver tried to flee the spot along with vehicle, but residents of Basaralu caught him and handed him over to the police.

 One among them managed to escape from captivity and reported the crime to local police. Raids were conducted at a small hut at Hassan area of Karnataka on Sunday and others were rescued.

 

The DNA database would play an important role in captive wildlife management and wildlife crime investigations. The forest department provided blood samples of captive elephants from across the state to the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) for DNA fingerprinting. 
 

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau is a statutory body under the environment ministry set up to combat organised wildlife crime

Prosecutors asked for a sentence of nearly 11 years, but US District Judge Terrence Berg settled on a nine-year term. He said he hoped it would be "grave enough" to deter others from committing similar crimes. A jury convicted Prabhu Ramamoorthy in August. He will be deported to India after serving his sentence

The mother has confessed to the crime that she strangled her six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter and hanged them to the roof of her house.
 

Nurses perform delivery, keep the physically-ill newborn in hospital for three days, resulting in the death of the child. 

The BJP leader CT Ravi lashed out at the JD(S) and the Congress and said the money sent by the Centre has been distributed for other purposes by the Karnataka government.

Some 384 tigers have been killed in India in the last 10 years, as poaching pushes the endangered species toward extinction.

The state, however it remains an open secret with no leader wanting to dwell on issues that actually matter in the state.  

In the second brutal murder in a month in Attapur, Hyderabad, Shakir Qureshi was butchered by Abdul Kaja over a trivial issue. Cops and people remained mute spectators as Kaja threatened them with knife.
 

The victim was hit on the groin and was killed on the spot, before cops arrived at the scene where he was tied up for trying to steal.

A 48-year-old woman executive engineer and her assistant had demanded Rs 5000 bribe from a silver merchant to approve the plan of his new house

Mohammed Farooq Shaikh, who had arranged funds for the 2002 Akshardham temple attack, evaded arrest for 16 years, but was finally nabbed by the crime branch from the Ahmedabad airport, soon after his arrival from Riyadh