A man has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly slapping his 4-year-old son repeatedly, the police said on Monday.
Azruddin Qutybuddin Shaikh, 30, was arrested after a video of him slapping his son went viral, Senior Inspector Deepak Pagare said.
"The man said he hit the child as he was constantly crying. The video was shot by his wife," he added.
Police said that the man has been charged under the Juvenile Justice Act but was released on bail.
A fisherman was booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after he handed over to his wife a plastic bag containing the mutilated body parts of his minor son, police said here on Wednesday.
Ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the women's vault event at the Rio Olympics, has been placed in a tricky situation over a BMW car presented to her by the Hyderabad District Badminton Association.
Police today arrested Youth Congress' Punjab secretary Parvinder Singh Lapran in connection with the clash between Akali and Congress workers over a white coloured effigy of demon king Ravana in Ludhiana, in which about 35 people were injured.
A 70-year-old woman was hacked to death allegedly by her 24-year-old grandson in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar-Bhatapara district on suspicion that she was practicing 'witchcraft'.
Conveying its strong opposition to Russia's joint military exercise with Pakistan, India told Moscow that a nation which "sponsors and practices terrorism as state policy" will create further problems.
In a suspected case of dowry death, a 19-year-old woman set herself ablaze in front of her brother in northwest Delhi's Bhalswa Dairy area, police said today.