Jul 28, 2012: Teacher makes minor girl pregnant

PTI | Jul 28, 2012, 05.06PM IST

BALASORE (ODISHA): A minor girl has lodged a complaint with the police stating that a para-teacher of a primary school in Balasore district had made her pregnant, the police said on Saturday. 

The para-teacher of the school in Muruna village under Simulia police station was a regular visitor to the victim's house and had developed a relationship with the girl. 

When she became pregnant, the teacher promised to marry her. However, the teacher took her to a private nursing home at Bhadrak and terminated her pregnancy on July 20, the complaint said. 

The victim along with her mother and some other relatives lodged a complaint against the teacher. The police have registered a case yesterday. 

The teacher was absconding.
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Jul 28, 2012: 18-day-old girl found murdered in drain in Ghaziabad

Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: July 28, 2012 22:09 IST 

Ghaziabad: An 18-day-old girl was found murdered in a drain in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday.

The body of Saumya Lodi, daughter of Virendra Lodi, a worker of a Mumbai-based construction firm who worked in Noida, was found in Khoda neighbourhood.

Saumya was allegedly kidnapped from her home early in the morning.

Her grandmother Shiela Lodi claimed two masked men kidnapped her from their house around 4.30 a.m. and hit her while escaping on a bike, police said.


Police said the child's grandmother had made suspicious statements.

Superintendent of Police Shiv Shankar Yadav said: "We have registered a case of murder against unidentified people."

"We are probing the possible involvement of a family member in the incident. There were only three family members, including the child's parents, present there when the incident occurred. The entry of any outsider is unlikely," he said.
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Jul 27, 2012: Minor raped in Rasulabad near Surat

TNN | Jun 20, 2012, 06.22AM IST

SURAT: A 17-year-old girl was raped by a 24-year-old married man with the help of a woman living in the former's neighbourhood at Rasulabad village of Olpad taluka in Surat on Monday.

The victim had gone to pay money for garment washing liquid purchased from Samim Mansuri, who lives alone in the village and runs grocery business from her house. Mansuri called the victim inside the house and when she went inside, the former pushed her in a room in the backside of her house and locked it from outside.

Accused Raes Hasan Mirza, who was already in the room, raped the victim even as she continued to shout for help. After some time, she was allowed to go home. However, Mirza threatened her not to disclose the incident to anyone.

The victim informed her family members about the incident. A complaint was lodged at Olpad police station on Monday evening. Medical examination of the victim confirmed that she was raped. Police arrested Mirza, who is a mason and works at Sayan, on Tuesday. tnnuesday. His wife is pregnant.

"The woman helped the accused to make some money. Mirza will be produced in court on Wednesday," said N S Chaudhary, police inspector, Olpad.
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Jul 27, 2012: Man lynched for molesting 12-year-old

V Narayan, TNN | Jul 27, 2012, 01.43AM IST

MUMBAI: A 22-year-old air-conditioner mechanic died at Sion hospital on Wednesday after he was reportedly kicked and his head was banged on a wall by his ex-boss, allegedly for molesting the latter's 12-year-old daughter, the previous day. 

The incident occurred around 7pm when the Std VIII girl's parents—businessman Naziruddin Shaikh (32) and his wife Shamim Bano (27) and a relative Junnuddin Shaikh (32)—got to know that the victim Khurshid Shaikh had misbehaved with her, the Vinoba Bhave Nagar police said. 

DCP (zone V) Dhananjay Kulkarni said, "Khurshid had gone to the businessman's house where he met the girl. He then misbehaved with her. On hearing the girl's scream, a neighbour rushed to her and thrashed Khurshid. Somehow he managed to flee at that time. Later, the girl's parents picked him up from his house when they learnt about the incident." 

Khurshid was employed for two months at Naziruddin's AC workshop in Kurla (W). Khurshid left the job a month-and-a-half ago and joined another AC workshop in the neighbourhood. "Around 7pm, five people barged into my house at Gurudatt Nagar in Kurla (W) and forcibly took Khurshid along with them. Later, it was learnt that they have brutally assaulted him," said Mohammed Shaikh, said Khurshid's roommate, in his complaint. 

When Naziruddin saw Khurshid had lost consciousness after the assault, he took him to Sion hospital. The three accused were arrested on Wednesday after Khurshid died.

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Jul 27, 2012: In-laws stab woman dead after brawl over water

TNN | Jul 27, 2012, 02.56AM IST

NEW DELHI: A family stabbed to death their daughter-in-law for water. The 23-year-old woman had a tiff with her brother-in-law after she claimed it was her turn to fill a bucket of water, much to the dislike of the man who insisted that he needed to bathe first.

The incident occurred around 8am at the JJ Colony in Wazirabad, northwest Delhi. The victim was Mumtaz. Her husband, Mukhtiyar, had tried to save her; but he was stabbed, too, and is in the hospital right now.

Mumtaz had gone to fill water when she found her brother-in-law bathing. "She requested him to stop for a while so that she could fill water. He refused and soon there was a verbal exchange. The brother-in-law was joined by his elder brother, Shakil alias Babloo, and his father, Roshan Khan; together, they started to beat the woman. Mumtaz cried out for help and Mukhtiyar responded.

He managed to end the fight; but Mumtaz alerted the cops from a nearby PCO. Upon her return, the three men attacked her again, and this time right outside her house. Two of them held her tight while Shakil stabbed her six times. Mukhtiyar tried to intervene, but they stabbed him too," claimed Brij Kishore, a witness.

Police rushed the two victims to the Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital where Mumtaz was declared dead. Mukhtiyar is stable but has been kept under observation. Roshan Khan is also in hospital. "We have nabbed all the accused and have many witnesses. We have also seized the murder weapon," said a senior police officer.

Sources claimed that the argument over water was just a pretext; trouble had been brewing between the two families for a while. "Cops are aware that the two families are involved in a property dispute," said a local who did not wish to be named.
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Jul 27, 2012: Man gets life term for poisoning wife

TNN | Jul 27, 2012, 02.52AM IST

NEW DELHI: A trial court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his wife by administering pesticide in a glass of water that he gave her to drink.

Relying on the depositions of his three minor children and also the medical evidence, district judge P S Teji held 38-year-old Vikas Gupta of Mandawali guilty of murder (Section 302) under IPC. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.

"It has already been established that it was the accused (Gupta) who gave cockroach killing pesticide to the deceased after mixing it in water. So, the medical evidence as well as FSL report establishes the case of prosecution that the accused committed the murder of his wife by administering poison to her," the court said.

The court, while convicting Gupta, took on record the statements of the couple's three children who testified that their father, who was an alcoholic, had killed their mother in front of them.

In his testimony, the couple's son said when his mother started vomiting with froth coming out of her mouth, his father kept watching, refusing to anything to save her. He said his mother's condition deteriorated soon after she consumed the water which his father had given to her.

The court also rejected Gupta's plea of alibi that he was not present at home when his wife consumed poison. "The eye witnesses (children) have categorically deposed against the accused that he administered intoxicant to the deceased after mixing it in water. So, the plea of alibi taken by the accused appears to be false," the district judge said.

Gupta murdered his wife and then took her to hospital along with other family members, said the court, adding that the case, however, does not fall into the category of rarest of rare crime warranting death penalty. The court gave him life term noting that he has three children and old parents to support.
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Jul 27, 2012: Minor resists marriage, gets father arrested

TNN | Jul 27, 2012, 05.34AM IST

KORAPUT/BHUBANESHWAR: A minor girl got her father arrested for trying to marry her off in Nabarangpur district. He is Phagunu Panaka of Kohorakat, a village 70 km from Nabarangpur. The groom's father, Khagapati Das and two others, Kamdev Panka and Baidyanath Panaka, were also nabbed on Wednesday.

The 16-year old girl had lodged a complaint against her parents and few members of her community at the Jharigoan police station on Monday alleging that she is being pressurized to marry. "I want to continue my studies. Though I am a minor, my father and few other community members are pressurizing me to get married. They have fixed my marriage with one of our relatives from Umerkote I don't want to get married now," read the police complaint lodged by the girl.

Jharigaon police said the girl had unsuccessfully appeared this year's HSC examination and lost her mother recently. "We verified the school certificate and found that the girl a little over 16 years old. We stopped the marriage preparations and took custody of the girl's father and three of their community members," said SDPO (Umerkote) Ashok Kumar Sahu.

"We also arrested the groom's father from Umerkote. We are searching for five others whose name figure in the FIR. The arrested persons were produced in court and has been sent to jail," he added.

The girl has been lodged at Belgam sevashram as she wished to continue her studies. Officials said stringent action will be taken against persons involved in the child marriage in the district under Juvenile Justice Act.
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Jul 26, 2012: Woman's body found near lake

TNN | Jul 26, 2012, 02.53AM IST

BANGALORE: The body of Chitra Shekhar, 32, was found in a bush near a dry lake in Seetarampalya, Mahadevapura on Wednesday morning. She was a resident of Kundalahalli. Passersby alerted police when they saw the body.

Preliminary investigations revealed she was strangled to death.

"Chitra was the second wife of Shekhar, a JCB driver. They were married for 10 years and had two daughters. They were from Dankanikote in Tamil Nadu but had settled down in Bangalore long ago. She was on the housekeeping staff at a software company in ITPB," police said.

Police found a towel near the body and there were injury marks on her neck. The assailants may have strangled her with the towel, police said.
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Jul 26, 2012: Man kicks wife to death for delivering baby girl

PTI | Jul 26, 2012, 09.18PM IST

COIMBATORE: In a shocking incident, a 22-year-old youth killed his 20-year-old wife near Kanuvai on Thursday for giving birth to a female baby last month.

The accused, S Pandiaraj, reportedly kicked his wife, G Nagajothi, in the abdomen repeatedly on Wednesday night and by Thursday morning she started to vomit blood. She breathed her last at a private hospital near Kanuvai. Police have arrested Pandiaraj and his mother, Dhanti, 50, in connection with the incident.

According to Vadavalli police, the couple has a two-year-old daughter, Aishwarya. Pandiaraj, a lorry driver, had married Nagajothi after courting her for a few months and the couple had a happy married life until the birth of their daughter. Their marital life started to crumble when her in-laws started taunting Nagajothi for 'failing' to give a baby boy.

It seems Pandiaraj started to ill- treat his wife after family members and some friends repeatedly taunted him for fathering a girl child. The brutalisation process was complete when the second baby also turned out to be a girl. As per the police complaint filed by the victim's father Ganesan, Pandiaraj used to assault Nagajothi almost every day and none, including his parents, cared to intervene and protect her.

The incident has left the civil society in the city in a shock as it reveals the deep-rooted prejudice against the girl child in the society. Long years of campaigns, by the state as well as NGOs, state policies favouring the girl child and regulations seem to have failed to alter the mindset of people.

Legal experts claimed that cases of gender discrimination are being reported from the upper middle class and educated sections of the society. "The old social outlook which tends to tilt towards the male gender is highly prevalent even among the educated sections of the society. It is deep rooted in their mindset and aggressive awareness campaigns to promote equal status forwomen should be ensured at least in the coming years,' said M Vennila, a city-based advocate.

Sociologists expect gender prejudice to decline as more and more women attain economic independence. The notion of girl child being a burden on the parents especially at the time of marriage would then cease. "When more and more women become economically independent, the social situation and prejudices are also expected to change,' said T Srinivasan, retired psychology professor, Government Arts College, Coimbatore. Superstitious beliefs prevalent among certain communities are also cited for gender discrimination and cruelty towards women.

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Jul 26, 2012: Minor set afire for resisting rape attempt

PTI | Jul 26, 2012, 08.00PM IST

FATEHPUR: A teenager has been arrested from Jahanabad town here for allegedly setting ablaze a 12-year-old girl after she resisted his attempt to rape her, police said today. 

Sharif (18) allegedly attempted to rape the girl when she was alone at home yesterday and when she raised raised an alarm, he set her on fire, bolted the room from outside and escaped, they said. 

The victim has been admitted to the district hospital, where her condition was stated to be serious. 

The youth was later arrested, Superintendent of Police R K Chaturvedi said.
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