62-year-old actor dies on stage during Ramlila in UP

Bijnor (UP): A 62-year-old actor, playing the role of Lord Ram’s father King Dashrath, died on stage while enacting a scene during a Ramlila here. Rajendra Singh suffered a heart attack and fell on the stage while calling out Ram’s name during a scene in which he is leaving for exile. By the time his co-actors tried to pick him up, he had died. Singh had been playing Dashrath’s role for the past 20 years. PTI

9,000 mobile phones worth Rs7 crore looted from truck

Mathura (UP): Unidentified miscreants looted nearly 9,000 mobile phones worth Rs 7 crore from a Bengaluru-bound truck and allegedly attacked the driver by beating him up and throwing him out of the vehicle, police here said on Saturday. The incident took place on October 5 in MP’s Sheopur district but a case was registered in UP’s Mathura. PTI

MP shopkeeper beaten to death over cigarette money

Shahdol (MP): Four persons allegedly beat a shopkeeper to death after they were asked to pay for the cigarettes they had taken in Deolond, about 90 km from here, the police said. PTI

Jacqueline again skips ED summons

New Delhi: Actor Jacqueline Fernandez on Saturday skipped the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) third summon to appear before it and record her statement in connection with a money laundering probe against alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekar. According to officials, the ED investigators want to confront Fernandez with Chandrashekhar and his actor wife, Leena Maria Paul. The agency, they said, wants to understand some trail of funds and transactions that are allegedly linked to Fernandez in this case. TNS

3-year-old raped, strangled to death

Fatehpur (up): A three-year-old child was allegedly raped and killed by a youth in a village under the Khaga Kotwali police station here, the police said on Saturday. The accused has been arrested. The child, who was living with maternal grandmother, was found dead on Friday in the youth’s rented room. PTI

Girl dies by suicide after being ‘molested’

Fatehpur (up): A 15-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide in a village under Malwan area here after she was molested by a youth from the same neighbourhood, the police said on Saturday. The victim apparently consumed some poisonous substance late on Friday night and later died in the district hospital during treatment on Saturday, SHO Arvind Singh said. PTI