Crime file: Mentally challenged minor girl raped; Girl forced to take abortion pills dies and more

Mentally challenged minor girl raped, murdered

Meerut: A mentally challenged minor girl was allegedly murdered after being raped at Rajpura Village in the district today. The 10-year-old girl was strangulated to death in Karkowda area of the village, police said, adding that her family has alleged that she was murdered after being raped. Police, however, said the body has been sent for post mortem and rape will be confirmed only after the examination. A case has been registered against unidendified person in the Karkowda police station, said police

Next: Girl forced to take abortion pills dies

Girl forced to take abortion pills dies

Vijayawada: A 17-year-old girl, impregnated by her lover, died after he forced her to consume abortion pills on Friday. Parents of the girl, a resident of Vidyadarapuram, found her bleeding and immediately took her to a private hospital where doctors said she was five-months pregnant. It was then that the girl revealed her relationship with Durga Rao, a 23-year-old autorickshaw driver.

Later, the girl was shifted to the Government General hospital where she died within an hour of admission. The girl’s parents and relatives, along with Left party activists, staged a protest at I-town police station with the body of the girl demanding immediate action against the accused.

They alleged callousness on the part of police in registering a case. The cops, however, claim they had already taken the accused into custody and registered a complaint at night.

I-town inspector K. Hanumantha Rao said that a case was registered according to the statement given by the girl’s parents and investigation would be taken up. The girl was a Class VII dropout and was learning tailoring. CPM, TD and other political parties are demanding stringent action against Durga Rao.

Next: Man held for raping 9-year-old

Man held for raping 9-year-old

Kollam: A 40-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl here two months ago.

Police identified him as Premanand, hailing from Thiruvananthapuram and living with his wife at Thrikkadavoor near Anchalumoodu.

The parents of the child tried to conceal the incident. However, the child reported it to her teachers. The locals and school teachers filed a case based on which he was arrested.

He was produced before the court on Friday and remanded in custody.

Next: Transgender alleges gang-rape

Transgender alleges gang-rape

Coimbatore: A three-member gang allegedly attempted to rape a transgender at Kalapatti on Thursday. The transgender has been admitted to the Coi­m­batore Medical College Hospital for treatment of injuries. Police have launched a hunt for the unidentified gang.

According to the police, the transgender Giri­shma, 26, (name chan­ged), from Vilan­kurichi, who had undergone a sex re-assignment surgery at a private hospital in Coimbatore in 2011, was disowned by her parents.

After completing her diploma studies, she went to Chennai and Singapore, looking for employment. She did not get a job and returned to Coimbatore recently.
When she was on the way to her uncle’s house at Kalapatti, she was accosted by three men and sexually assaulted, Girishma said in her complaint to the police.

Next: Rs 60L gold in henna powder

Rs 60L gold in henna powder

P.A. jebaraj | DC

Chennai: It’s a novel way to smuggle gold into the country: Sleuths from the Direct­orate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Chen­nai, caught two men carrying 5 kg of henna powder in which 1.8 kg of gold powder worth over Rs 60 lakh was mixed.

The DRI team had intercepted two passengers, hailing from Ramanathapuram, when they landed in Chennai from Dubai on Wednesday.

The DRI team came upon five tins of henna powder. When they asked them why they were carrying such a large quantity of this with them in the bag, the two said that they were transporting the special powder in view of the festive season ahead.

Not convinced by the answer, the officials decided to send a sample of the powder to a lab. On Thursday, the lab result showed that the henna powder was mixed with gold powder, DRI sources said.

Customs and DRI officials said that they had not, in recent history, come across a case in which smugglers had mixed henna powder with gold powder to smuggle into the country.

The DRI official added that the two, booked for smuggling gold, were mere carriers. They were now on the look out for bigger names in the racket.

Next: Two held for online job racket

Two held for online job racket

Chennai: Two persons - Yogesh Kumar, 30, fr­om Uttar Pradesh and De­epak Kumar, 28, of Bihar - were arrested by the city police on Friday for cheating engineering graduates promising them lucrative jobs in Malaysia.

The arr­ested had allegedly posted online advertisements for jobs in Malaysia and cheated youths after collecting money from them.

The police said four persons had believed the members of the racket and paid them Rs 20,000 each at a lodge in Chennai where they were asked to come.

Next: Man ends life after fighting with wife

Man ends life after fighting with wife

Mysore: A 36-year-old man committed suicide by hanging at his house in Kadugodi police station limits. The deceased, San­tosh An­­­a­­nd, was a printing press mec­hanic.

Police said that Anand had a tiff with his wife on Thursday ni­ght wh­­en he compla­ined that the food was not well co­oked. He went in­side his room and locked himself up.

“When Bala woke up at 8 am on Friday, she knocked on the door but there was no re­s­­p­­onse. She peeped through a window and find him hanging fr­om the ceiling fan. We are investigating the case,” the police added.

Next: Siddapura murder: Victim’s relative held

Siddapura murder: Victim’s relative held

Bangalore: The Siddapura police have cracked the murder case of Pushpa, the 59-year-old woman who was found murdered at her house on Byrasandra Main Road in Jayanagar First Block on December 14.

The police have arrested a close relative of Pushpa in this connection and investigations revealed that the accused had incurred huge debts and murdered the elderly woman for gain.

The accused has been identified as Senthil Ku­m­ar, 41, a resident of Jayanagar second block and a native of Palani district in Tamil Nadu. Senthil was the grandson of victim’s paternal aunt and he was close to Pushpa and her husband V.K. Nataraj, who runs a tyre business in Garvebavipalya.

According to the pol­ice, Senthil’s family had settled in the city for the past 20 years and he was a vegetable vendor earlier. Since the last four years, he started dealing in second hand cars, but suffered losses in the business.

Kumar took loans amounting to Rs 3 lakh from Raghu and Rs 1 lakh from Ravi. Ho­wever, he was not in a position to repay his debts, but Raghu reportedly pressured him to return the money.

“Senthil had appro­ached Nataraj about a month ago and asked him to lend Rs 3 lakh so he could repay his debts. Nataraj was reluctant to give him the money.

Senthil was ange­red by this and quarrelled with Nataraj, saying that the latter had given money to others but not to him. Later, he decided to get money at any cost and hatched a plot to steal Pus­hpa’s jewels,” the pol­ice explained.

“On December 14 afternoon, Senthil went near Pushpa’s house and watched people’s movements for sometime. As soon as Nataraj left the house, he went inside. Pushpa gave him sweets and tea. After that, he demanded money from Pushpa.

She told him that she did not have any money and asked him to approach her husband. In a bid to steal her jewels, Senthil tried to snatch her gold chain. When she resisted, he took out a knife and murdered her by slitting her throat. Later, he esca­ped with her gold chain and two bangles,” the police said.

“Investigations pointed out that Senthil, who was close to the family, was missing after the incident and he had a fight with Nataraj a few days before the murder.

On suspicion he was picked up and he confessed to the crime,” the police added. The accused had pled­ged the gold jewels to a pawn broker in Hosur and got back his bike, which he had pledged earlier, and Rs 75,000 in cash. The police have recovered a 110-gram gold chain and two bangles, worth Rs 3.30 lakh, from the accused.

Next: Lokayukta raids 10 babus, seizes Rs 15.5 crore

Lokayukta raids 10 babus, seizes Rs 15.5 crore

Bangalore: Lokayukta sleuths on Friday conducted sim­u­lt­aneous raids on 32 premises of 10 government servants, who all­e­gedly owned properties disproportionate to their known sources of income, and recovered assets of over Rs 15.5 crore.

The raided officials were Narendra Kumar, BDA surveyor, Pra­san­na Kumar, Ass­essor BBMP, Subra­manya Re­d­dy, Assistant Eng­­ineer, Ka­rn­ataka Land Army, Mu­­d­­­alagi­riya­ppa, Dis­­trict Project Ma­nager, Zilla Nirm­ithi Kendra, Chi­tr­adurga, Man­jun­ath Gud­a­ppa Das­appa­nav­ar, Deputy Tah­­s­ildar Sa­m­shi Na­dak­acheri; Anth­ony Kun­j­unath, Jr Engineer, HE­S­COM, Basa­varaj Ban­diva­­ddar, Ass­istant Eng­ineer, PWD, Koppal, Raichur, Dr Nan­deesh, HoD, Sur­gery depar­tment, Me­dical Col­lege, Man­dya, M.M. Umesh, Secretary, VSSN, Kodli, Tum­kur and Naray­ana Ka­r­vi, AEE, Port and

Fish­eries Dept, UdupiThe Lokayukta sleu­ths conducted the raids following credible info­rmation against the ten officials. BDA surveyor Nare­ndra Kumar, whose salary is Rs 18,100 per month, owns a guesthouse with a swimming pool in Sahak­aranagar, a few sites, shops and commercial complexes.

He has a fleet of three cars — Volkswagen Vento, Renault and Maruti Swift. He also has gold ornaments and bank deposits. His wo­rth is over 1,700 times more than his known sou­rces of inc­ome.

The Mandya doctor owns a Mercedes Benz, 899 gms of gold, sites and houses in various parts of the state and in Bengaluru. His value is 235 times more than what he could have acquired legally.

Next: Body of newborn found

Body of newborn found

Hyderabad: The body of a premature baby boy was found in a bag at the Jubilee Bus Station, Secunderabad on Friday. Scavengers cleaning Platform No. 1 recovered the bag and alerted the police. Marredpally police inspector K. Shashank Reddy said the baby was eight months old and had no external injuries. He said the parents will be traced after examining CCTV footage.

A case was registered and is being investigated. Cops suspect that the premature child, who was born at a local hospital, was abandoned by parents. This is the second case of a newborn being abandoned in the past two days.