According to police sources, the acid attack was staged to put pressure on the alleged attacker, Soni Kumari, 24, to withdraw a gang rape case in which Shalu’s boyfriend was behind bars.
Meerut SSP Manzil Saini said, “In September 2016, Soni’s brother was sent to jail on charges of rape. In what seemed like retaliation, Soni filed gang rape charges against three youths, including the brother of the woman who had indicted Soni’s brother. One of the three accused, Rajesh Khari, was the boyfriend of Shalu, and was the only one arrested. Shalu hatched a conspiracy to frame Soni in a fake acid attack, to put pressure on her to withdraw the gang rape case.”
Currently, Soni Kumari is already in jail and police plans to secure her release. The news had created sensation, with National Commission for Women seeking a report from the SSP.
Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has upheld the life sentence awarded to a man who killed his 16-month-old son by feeding him water laced with anti-retroviral (HIV) drugs, suspecting he wasn’t his biological father.
A division bench of justices Ravi Malimath and K Somashekar affirmed the September 27, 2012 verdict of a fast-track court holding Ravi alias Battery Ravi guilty of killing his son.
“There may be some discrepancies in the evidence of some witnesses who had been treated as hostile, but that of the prosecution witnesses, the mother, a child witness, the investigating officer, the doctor who conducted autopsy and a retired doctor is clinching and proves the guilt of the accused,” the bench observed in its order.
The trial court had said Ravi, a resident of Saraswathipuram Colony, Hunsur in Mysuru district, shouldn’t be released for the rest of his life.
According to the prosecution, around 10am on June 16, 2011, Ravi took his second child, Nishor, from the maternal house of his wife on the pretext of buying him eatables. It is said that he took Nishor (along with his sisterin-law’s son) to an underconstruction Maratha community hall near Shanimahathma temple in Hunsur town. Suspecting that Nishor was not born to him, Ravi made the child drink water mixed with powdered anti-retroviral tablets like Zidovudine, Lamivudine and Nevirapine.
Nishor was frothing when Ravi brought him back to his wife and was immediately rushed to the government hospital in Hunsur and later taken to KR Hospital, Msyuru, where he died.
The wife testified that when she was pregnant with her second child, Ravi abandoned her after getting to know that she had a hole in her heart, forcing her to live with her parents.
She further said Ravi told her family that she should be sent back only when she recovers and didn’t allow her in his house even when there was a reconciliation.
The son of Ravi’s sisterin-law, an eyewitness, testified that his uncle took him along with Nishor to a bakery, bought them eatables and juice and then took them to the Maratha community hall where he made Nishor drink water laced with powdered tablets in a steel glass.
The investigating officer testified that Ravi alone could have got those anti-retroviral drugs, which are prescribed for a person with HIV, as the accused in his voluntary statement said his parents were taking the drugs regularly. The doctor testified that he was treating Ravi’s father (now dead), an HIV-positive patient, and had prescribed the tablets to him.
Hotel staffer’s neck slit in suspected robbery bid
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Bengaluru: A 20-year-old hotel management trainee was injured in the neck during a suspected robbery attempt near ITC Gardenia Hotel, off Lavelle Road, around 2am on Sunday.
Cubbon Park police said Neeraj Joshi, from Uttarakhand, was on his way home after work when a bike with two men slowed down near him. The man on the pillion stretched his hand towards Neeraj, but the biker suddenly accelerated on noticing people around them.
The pillion rider allegedly used a sharp-edged weapon to slit Neeraj’s neck before fleeing the spot.
A friend took Neeraj to nearby Mallya Hospital; he is out of danger now. Neeraj told police that the attackers neither spoke nor tried to snatch his valuables. “We are not sure who they were. We are checking the CCTV footages,” an officer said.
Cop guarding Jaya memorial shoots himself
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A 26-year-old police constable guarding the memorial of former CM J Jayalalithaa on the Marina shot himself dead early on Sunday morning. Armed reserve police constable Arunraj, 26, from Perungudi in Madurai, who killed himself was part of a team of four constables guarding the site with .303 bolt action rifles. Around 4.55am, the other constables heard the sound of gunfire from the right side of the memorial where Arunraj stood. They ran there and found him lying in a pool of blood. Arunraj had shot himself underneath the jaws, with the bullet piercing through his head and coming out. He was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead, following which an autopsy was carried out.
Businessman shoots himself
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A 54-year-old businessman, who is said to have been suffering from depression, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a licensed revolver. The victim was a divorcee and said to have been depressed due to that. Anil Ahuja, a resident of Elite Horamavu apartments at Pappaiah Layout in Horamavu, shot himself to his head around 9 pm on Sunday. He was originally from Uttar Pradesh.
“The victim was into automobile business and was also running a car service station. Ahuja is a divorcee and was staying alone in the apartment. His ex-wife and children are living separately and their whereabouts is yet to be ascertained. We suspect he was upset about his single status, and could have shot himself due to that,” said a police officer.
The jurisdictional Hennur police contacted his sister and brother-in-law, who stay in Delhi. Ahuja’s sister has given her statements to the police. Though initially there was talk that the victim was an ex-serviceman, his sister has refuted this claim. The suicide came to light when resident of other flats in the building rushed to his house after hearing the gun shot. The neighbours then informed the matter to the security and the police. The post-mortem was conducted at the Ambedkar hospital.
“The body was handed over to his sister. No foul play is suspected in the death. The victim has fired one round to his head and the bullet has exited through his arm,” the officer added.
The Hennur police have registered a case of unnatural death and have sent the recovered revolver to FSL for further examination.
Bus conductor, mother fall from inspector’s 5th-floor flat
BENGALURU: A 34-year-old KSRTC bus conductor and his 60-year-old mother died after falling from the fifth floor of an apartment building in Belathur, Kadugodi, Southeast Bengaluru, early on Tuesday.
The apartment belongs to a police inspector, Chandrappa. Four days ago, he had summoned Maunesh and Sundaramma, of Chikkanahalli in Shahapura taluk of Yadgir district, to his flat to inquire about his missing sister. Chandrappa is attached to the District Special Branch (DSB) in Kolar.
The mother and son were staying with him to help him trace his sister, the inspector told in his statement to the police.
Preliminary inquiries showed Maunesh, a married man, had an affair with Chandrappa’s sister. He allegedly eloped with her and married her against Chandrappa’s wishes. The inspector tracked down the couple, brought his sister home, annulled their marriage and warned Maunesh to stay away.
Last week, however, Chandrappa’s sister went missing again. Suspecting Maunesh, he summoned him to the city. Fearing that her son might be harmed, Sundaramma accompanied him.
The incident emerged around 4.30 am when a security guard noticed two bodies lying motionless in a pool of blood. He alerted the apartment residents’ association which called the police.
Police shifted them to a hospital where doctors declared them brought dead. Police then detained Chandrappa for questioning. Chandrappa told them he was at sleep at the time of the incident. The duo had fallen from the utility space balcony of the kitchen. There was no suicide note, police said.
Chandrappa’s flat, number 403, is located on the fifth floor of MSR Empress Apartments. He is unmarried.
“We cannot conclude whether the case is a suicide or murder. We are awaiting forensic and fingerprint expert reports,” said Abdul Ahad, DCP (Whitefield).
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Father chops off son’s wrist for watching porn on phone
Hyderabad, DHNS: In a bizarre incident, a man chopped off his son’s right wrist as the latter was watching porn movies on his newly purchased mobile phone, on Monday.
Mohammad Qayyum Qureshi, an electrician from Pahadisheriff, used a butcher’s knife to punish his adamant son Khaled Qureshi (19) as he was unable to beat that addiction.
According to Pahadisheriff Police, Khaled has been working as a cable operator and he recently purchased a smart phone. Since then he has been watching movies and porn, particularly during night, much to his father’s anger.
A few days ago, the duo had a heated argument over the issue as Khaled said that he was only watching movies.
Khaled then bit his father’s hand and ran away from home. However, he returned and continued with his binge watching.
During the early hours of Monday, while Khaled and everyone else in the home were in deep sleep, Mohammad chopped the former’s hand.
Khaled woke up writhing in pain and started screaming. He was rushed to a private hospital in Chaitanyapuri, where doctors tried to reconnect the wrist with rest of the hand.
Howeever, they said that there was little chance of saving Khaled’s hand as the wrist was almost severed from the hand.
Mohammad has been arrested.
The autopsy report indicated that Murti had died due to poisoning. His brother, D V S S Siva Sarma, who lives in Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh, was informed and a murder case was registered on the basis of his complaint.