Hooghly teen raped, murdered TNN | Jul 25, 2012, 03.55AM IST

HARIPAL (HOOGHLY): A teenaged was found raped and murdered in a jute field in Basari village under Haripal police station area on Tuesday afternoon. The father of the girl has alleged that the brother of a CPM panchayat member was behind the crime. Villagers staged an agitation and didn't allow the body of the 15-year-old to be taken away for autopsy, till the police brought sniffer dogs. A case of rape and murder has been registered.

The parents of the deceased are farm labourers and leave home early. "On Tuesday morning, they had left for Sodepur on work. The victim was alone at home. When her father returned home in the afternoon, he couldn't find the girl. When he asked his neighbours they said that the victim was last spotted near a village pond with utensils. Her father rushed to the pond to find the utensils lying, but there was no trace of the girl," said sources.

By then, some other villagers had gathered and one of them asked the victim's father to check the toilet near a jute field, close to the pond. "As soon as the villagers entered the field, they stumbled upon the girl's body. The girl, wearing a nightie, was lying face down in the field. Bantul raised an alarm and other villagers gathered at the spot.

Policemen also reached the spot after being informed by the locals, but were not allowed to get close to the body till the dog squad arrived," said sources.

"I suspect that this crime was committed by the brother of a Gopinathpur gram panchayatmember, which is run by the CPM. This man was after my daughter for long. He came to our village even on Monday evening but we got together and drove him out," alleged the girl's father.

According to Aduri's aunt Shyamali, the accused is a terror in the area and was after her daughter. "The situation turned so bad that I had to send my daughter away from the village," she said.

After the police faced resistance, Chandernagore SDPO Saikat Ghosh went to the village. SomeTrinamool Congress leaders also reached the spot. "The CPM may have lost in the polls , but the party is still terrorizing this area. We demand immediate arrest of the accused," said local Trinamool leader Laltu De. Basab Talukdar, Special IG, Burdwan Range, said that prima facie it seems that the girl was raped. "She was bleeding from her private parts. We suspect rape. Nobody will be spared," he said.

Crime in Hooghly is on the rise in recent times. On Monday evening, the body of a Class-VI student was found by the side of Delhi Road near Srirapur. Md Ismail, a student of Anjuman High School and resident of R K Road in Srirampur left home in the evening with three other youngsters. According to Rajnarayan Mukherjee, SDPO, Srirampur, the trio asked Ismail to join them for fishing at a local pond.

"After being arrested on Monday night, the three admitted that they had thrashed Ismail as his family owed them Rs 4,000. The boy apparently got throttled when the three grabbed him by the throat," Mukherjee said.

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Youth 'sets ablaze' Kurla girl, booked V Narayan | Jul 25, 2012, 01.16AM IST

MUMBAI: A 26-year-old youth, Devendra Bansode, has been booked for allegedly setting ablaze a 23-year-old girl, Priyanka Kamble, at her fifth-floor flat in an SRA building in Kurla. Kamble suffered 90% burns while the accused suffered 50% burns.

Investigators learnt through the locals that Bansode was having an illicit relationship with Kamble and the matter worsened around 1.30am on Tuesday after his visits at the victim's flat. "Bansode frequently visited the victim's flat after her father passed away. The victim and her mother considered him as a family member. However he was having an illicit relationship with the girl and her mother too," people from the locality said.

The incident occurred half-an-hour after Bansode stepped into Kamble's flat situated on the fifth floor. On seeing Bansode, Kamble's mother stepped out of the house and stayed in the common passage on the floor.

"In the complaint, Kamble's mother Nirmala said that Bansode has set her daughter on fire. Meanwhile Bansode claimed that he suffered the burns when he tried to save her who poured kerosene in front of him and lit match-stick," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V) Dhananjay Kulkarni.

The matter was observed when the victim's mother found smoke emitting from her flat and the next moment heard her daughter's scream. "On hearing the scream, neighbours rushed out and entered Kamble's flat after breaking the door and found Kamble was burnt while Bansode was found hiding to a corner. They manhandled the half burnt Bansode. Somehow he managed to give a slip," said a Kurla police officer.

The officer said Bansode called one of his friends for help and drove to hospitals in the locality but the officials denied him admission as it was a burn case. "Bansode returned back to the building premise where the victim stays. People took him along with Kamble in a taxi to the Sion hospital," said the officer.

Bansode is booked under IPC Section 307 (attempt to murder). Investigations are on.

Girl molested, thrown out of train in Karnataka Rajendrakumar K R, TNN | Jul 25, 2012, 03.57AM IST

MADDUR: A 19-year-old girl who resisted a molestation attempt by a group of youths was kicked out of a moving train by them near Maddur on Tuesday afternoon. She survived miraculously, but suffered grievous injuries. 

Kavya (name changed) was pushed out of theYeshwantpur-Mysore Express when it was travelling over the Kolli bridge, on the Shimsha river. She fell onto the dry river bed 25 feet below. 

A passenger who saw the girl being thrown out called Maddur police. She was taken to theMandya Institute of Medical Sciences, where she is being treated for injuries to the head, backbone and legs. 

Scores of passengers who remained mute spectators to the molestation attempt later thrashed the culprits. Two youths were taken into custody at the Mandya station. Two others were picked up at Pandavapura later on suspicion of accompanying those caught earlier. 

Kavya said from her hospital bed: "When the train was approaching Maddur station, four youths began teasing me and sexually harassing me. They passed lewd remarks and tried to molest me. When I said I would inform police, they pushed me out." 

An employee of a garment factory in Bangalore, Kavya was on leave. She was heading back to her home in Vidyaranyapuram, Mysore. An orphan, she stays with her grandmother in Mysore. 

Kavya boarded the general compartment at Kengeri. The four youths, who are believed to have entered the coach at Ramanagaram, began teasing her. 

When Kavya rebuked them, one of the youths tried to molest her. 




She got up from her seat and went near the door. The youths followed her and continued to misbehave. They pushed her out when she said she would inform police. 

As the train had just left Maddur, it was moving at a slow speed on the bridge. 

Police said Kavya might not have survived if she had hit a rock on the river bank. Luckily, she fell on the dry river bed. 

A passenger said the youths literally kicked her out. Another passenger claimed: "If she had brought it to our notice, we could have done something." 

The miscreants were identified as Akbar, 24, Imran, 21, Shuban and Ahmed — all from Kalyanagiri locality in Mysore. 

Victimspeak 

I am a tailor at the Hinduja Garments factory in Bangalore. I was going to my home town, Mysore. When the train was approaching Maddur station, four youths began teasing me and sexually harassing me. They passed lewd remarks and tried to molest me. When I protested and threatened that I would inform police about their misbehaviour, they pushed me out of the moving train. I fell on the rocky ground and lost consciousness. When I regained my consciousness, I was under medical care. I was in acute pain and there was blood all over my body. 

Kavya | Garment worker 

TIMES VIEW 

We need no gender assessment study to state that women find life outside their homes increasingly unsafe. Commuting on buses and trains is fraught with risks too, not to talk of general discomfort, thanks to overcrowding and lack of facilities. This case is more shocking because it brings to light the deteriorating social climate in Karnataka where hooligans can dare commit such heinous acts. What's worrisome for citizens is the government -- whose members are constantly squabbling over positions of power -- seems to be in no hurry to wake up to realities. Along with policy-makers, law-enforcers too have a big job on their hands in creating a citizenfriendly society.


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BSF jawan caught for molestation attempt in moving train Shyam P V, TNN | Jul 24, 2012, 11.19AM IST

THRISSUR: The Railway police arrested a 42-year-old Border Security Force jawan for allegedly misbehaving with a woman aboard the Chennai bound Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai Super-Fast Mail Express (train number: 12624) last night. 

According to sources from the railway police, the BSF jawan who has been identified as Kareepuzha native KP Sathyan of Alapuzha in Kerala tried to molest the woman hailing from Pathanathitta district in Kerala around 9 pm, when the train was minutes away from the Palakkad Junction.

"Both the accused and the victim were travelling in the third a/c (B1) compartment of the Super-Fast Mail Express. The accused allegedly attempted to molest the woman travelling alone to Chennai. She resisted and immediately complained to the police officials on board who arrested the accused," said the source. 

An interrogation into the incident has already started and the jawan would be presented before the court before today noon. 

This is the fifth such incident, where woman passenger is attacked aboard in Kerala in a week.


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