Man Gets 20 Years RI For Sexually Assaulting Boy

Hyderabad: A 27-year-old man, Etikela Rajashekar, was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment by the Special Pocso Court, Medchal on Thursday for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in Alwal in December 2019. The court also imposed fines totalling Rs 6,500 and directed that Rs 3 lakh be paid as compensation to the victim.

The incident occurred on December 15, 2019, when the boy was playing near his house after returning from school. When he did not return home by around 9.30 pm, his mother went searching for him and found him crying while returning with his friends.

On being questioned, the child disclosed that the accused had taken him into his house, assaulted him and subjected him to sexual abuse. The accused even threatened to beat and kill him if he revealed the incident. The complaint also stated that similar abuse occurred on previous occasions. The accused was arrested on December 18, 2019, and remanded to judicial custody.

Migrant worker missing from Secunderabad railway station

Hyderabad:A 30-year-old migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh, who was waiting at Platform 2 at the Secunderabad station, to leave for his hometown, went missing in suspicious circumstances since October 22. According to GRP Secunderabad, the missing person, Rajesh Sendre, had come to the city a month back and was residing in Adibatla. During investigation, the railway police found that on October 22, a person identified as Madanlal accompanied Sendre to the station to help him board the train. Sendre reportedly purchased a general ticket and waited for his train. When Madanlal later went to check on him, Sendre was nowhere to be found. Despite searching the railway station and surrounding areas, Madanlal could not trace Sendre and informed his brother Naresh, who lodged a missing complaint on Thursday. SI S. V. Subbareddy registered a missing-person case and took up the investigation.