The Noida Police on Saturday arrested a 45-year-old assistant professor at IIT Jodhpur's electronics department for allegedly raping a 35-year-old woman. Senior police officer Rajveer Chauhan told IANS that the police arrested assistant professor Vivek Vijayvargiya on Saturday morning. Later the accused was presented before a magistrate court in Noida who remanded him in judicial custody.

Four-men, accused of abducting a manager of a-call-centre in Noida and demanding a ransom of Rs. 10 lakh for his release, have been arrested, police said Friday. About 15 to 16 men had abducted Paritosh, a manager at Metro Infosolutions in Sector-63, on the intervening night of April 18 and 19, after which the call centre's owner approached the police, a senior official said.

The body of a six-year-old boy, who fell into a drain in Noida on Monday, was recovered Tuesday morning, an NDRF official said. The body was recovered at 8:45-am, hours after joint search by Noida Police and NDRF. The boy fell into drain on Monday afternoon when he along with some other children was crossing the drain near Salarpur Khadar village, police said.