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  • Brother-in-law raped, killed nurse in Kerala: Police

    By Express News Service
    ALAPPUZHA:  Harikrishna, a 25-year-old nurse who was discovered useless at her sister’s home on Saturday,  was allegedly raped and murdered by her brother-in-law, the police stated. According to Cherthala DySP Vinod Pillai, the postmortem report of the deceased nurse revealed that she was murdered after rape.

    Ratheesh“Her brother-in-law Ratheesh alias Unni, 40, Puthenkattumgal, Kadakkarapally, committed the crime when the victim did not surrender to his wishes. The accused picked her up from the bus stop at Kadakkarapally while she was returning from Alappuzha Medical College, where she was employed, on Friday evening. At home, the duo got into a heated argument over the victim’s relationship with a youngster. After killing Harikrishna, the accused left the house,” stated the DySP.

    The police nabbed Ratheesh from a relative’s home at Chenganda close to Cherthala on Saturday night. Initially, he confessed to murdering the sufferer. However, after police acquired the post-mortem report and confronted him, Ratheesh admitted to raping her too.

    When the crime befell, the sufferer’s sister, Ratheesh’s spouse, was on night time responsibility at a personal hospital in Kochi. Ratheesh was produced earlier than the Cherthala Judicial Magistrate Court and remanded in judicial custody on Sunday. Harikrishna’s physique was handed over to family after postmortem examination, police stated.

  • Kerala: DYFI employee arrested for rape, homicide of minor woman

    Kerala Police on Monday arrested a neighborhood employee of DYFI, the youth wing of the ruling CPI(M), for allegedly hanging a six-year-old woman after raping her. The incident was reported in Idukki district.
    Police stated that Arjun, 22, repeatedly sexually abused the woman for 3 years.
    The physique was discovered hanging in a room on the plantation quarters of her dad and mom.
    A police officer stated, “The incident, which occurred on June 30, was reported as an accidental death. We were told that a shawl accidentally got tied around her neck while she was playing. The parents were away at work. However, the postmortem revealed that the girl had been subjected to sexual abuse over a long period, which made police look into the murder angle.”
    Police sources stated the accused confessed that he abused the kid for 3 years, and used to lure her with sweets.
    On June 30, he allegedly sneaked into the woman’s home. “The girl fell unconscious during the assault and the assailant feared she may have died. Subsequently, he hanged her from a rope in the room using her shawl,” stated a police officer, quoting the youth.
    Arjun, a member of DYFI, has been doing social work within the area, significantly as a volunteer in the course of the pandemic.

  • Two CPI(M) leaders held in rape case in Kerala

    Two native CPI(M) leaders have been arrested for allegedly raping a fellow girl comrade of the ruling Marxist social gathering on this north Kerala district, police stated.
    The accused, recognized as P P Baburaj and T P Lijesh, had been arrested on costs of rape, trespassing of property and felony intimidation of the complainant girl,who was a member of the Vadakara department committee of the CPI(M), they stated.
    A Sreenivas, Kozhikode Rural SP, informed P T I that each had been arrested from Karimbanapalam close to right here early Monday morning.
    However, native police stated they weren’t conscious of the political background of the 2.

    The sufferer, married and a mom of two kids, had alleged that Baburaj barged into her home and raped her three months in the past.
    Following this, he continued to sexually abuse her a number of instances, every time blackmailing to show their relationship to her husband and others, based on her criticism which additionally stated Lijesh additionally raped her threatening the identical.

    Tired of the harassment by the 2, the sufferer approached the police and filed her criticism on Saturday.
    The sufferer has been subjected to a medical examination and an in depth assertion recorded by the police previous to the arrest of the 2 culprits, police sources added.
    As per media studies, although the social gathering leaders tried to discover a compromise within the case, the sufferer didn’t concede to the proposal and filed a criticism with the police.

    Following the arrest, the CPI(M) had suspended the 2, social gathering sources stated.
    Baburaj was a department secretary of the CPI(M) whereas Lijesh, a regional secretary of the social gathering’s youth wing DYFI.

  • Kerala govt to refer rape instances in opposition to Chandy, others to CBI

    Months forward of Assembly polls in Kerala, the CPM-led state authorities has determined to advocate to the CBI the rape instances registered in opposition to Congress chief Oommen Chandy and his different social gathering colleagues primarily based on complaints by a lady accused within the 2013 photo voltaic rip-off.
    The photo voltaic rip-off throughout the tenure of the earlier authorities led by Chandy was one of many key points within the 2016 Assembly elections through which the UDF was routed and the LDF got here to energy.
    The lady alleged she was sexually exploited by Chandy, AICC normal secretary Ok C Venugopal, Congress MPs Hibi Eden and Adoor Prakash and former minister A P Anil Kumar. Then Congress chief A P Abdullakutty, who later joined the BJP and have become its nationwide vice-president, can also be an accused. Although the girl had earlier complained in opposition to Kerala Congress (M) chief Jose Ok Mani, who just lately joined the LDF, no case has been registered in opposition to him.The state Home Department on Saturday issued a gazette notification, saying the federal government has determined to refer 5 instances, registered in 2016, 2018 and 2019, to the CBI.
    The judicial fee which probed the photo voltaic rip-off had really helpful in 2017 {that a} case for sexual abuse be registered in opposition to Chandy, Venugopal and different Congress leaders. The lady, in a letter to the fee, had alleged that Chandy and others sexually abused her and allowed her photo voltaic agency to make unlawful positive aspects when Congress was in energy.
    Thereafter, the CPM authorities ordered registration of legal instances in opposition to Chandy and others, however there was little progress within the instances as the federal government bought antagonistic authorized recommendation. Also, Chandy moved the High Court, which quashed the case in opposition to him and restrained the media from debating contents of the letter.
    The lady then filed new complaints in opposition to the Congress leaders and contemporary instances had been registered. Recently, she approached Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, searching for a CBI probe into the instances.
    The lady advised the media that she didn’t see a political motive behind handing over the instances to CBI. “I had complained in opposition to 14 individuals, together with Jose Ok Mani. Now, six instances through which FIR has been registered could be handed over to CBI,’’ she stated.
    CPM state secretary A Vijayaraghavan stated the federal government took a call primarily based on the complainant’s demand for a CBI probe. “The instances had been handed over to CBI as a part of making certain pure justice to the complainant,’’ he stated.
    Chandy, who has been appointed chairman of the Congress election administration and technique committee, stated, “The LDF came to power after staging massive agitations against the UDF government on the solar scam issue. What have they been doing for the last five years? They did not take any action on the complaints. Let CBI probe the issue.”
    Congress Chief Whip in Lok Sabha, Kodikunnil Suresh, stated the state authorities’s choice is a “ludicrous political drama”.
    Union Minister and BJP chief V Muraleedharan stated Vijayan has sensed defeat within the Assembly elections. “Vijayan has been in opposition to the CBI probe into FCRA violations within the authorities housing scheme and twin murders of Youth Congress leaders by CPM cadres. The sudden love for CBI reveals the federal government’s double-standard,’’ he stated.