Bengaluru techie drowns during weekend pleasure trip

News Network

May 28, 2018

Mandya, May 28: A weekend trip ended in a tragedy for a young software engineer from Bengaluru when he drowned in Hosakere at Avverahalli near the historical Revanasiddeshwara Hills on the outskirts of Ramanagaram on Saturday evening.

The body of Chethan (24) of Bhojana Hosahalli, near Whitefield, was retrieved on Sunday morning.

According to the Ramanagaram Rural police, Chethan and seven others had gone to the lake in the afternoon. They took selfies, had food and later ventured into the waters. However, within minutes the victim drowned in the lake while his friends watched helplessly.

None of them knew swimming, the police added, quoting his friends who were in a state of shock.

The Fire and Emergency Services Department personnel launched a search on Saturday night and retrieved the body with the help of local youths at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday.

The Ramanagaram Rural police have registered a case.

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Killer confesses crime on live programme in Chandigarh, cops arrest him mid-interview

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January 15,2020

Chandigarh, Jan 15: A man, who has killed two women over infidelity over the last 10 years was arrested from a news channel studio in Chandigarh when he confessed to these crimes during a live programme, police said.

In the television programme on News18, the 31-year-old accused, Maninder Singh, who is a cab driver, confessed killing his live-in partner, a 27-year-old nurse Sarabjit Kaur at a Chandigarh hotel on New Year's Eve.

Singh, a former murder convict and currently out on bail, also confessed about his crime committed in Karnal in 2010.

"I killed her (Sarabjit Kaur) because she was having an affair with her sister-in-law's brother," Maninder told the news channel.

Confessing his previous crime, Maninder said he had killed Renu in Karnal. "She was also having an affair with a man from Uttar Pradesh," he said.

Singh was arrested while the programme was still on air as police rushed into the studio.

Haryana Police had arrested him for killing the woman in 2010. He was convicted by a trial court, but he later got bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

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Tired migrant worker collapses and dies before boarding train in Karnataka

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May 21,2020

Bengaluru, May 21:Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru, collapsed and died soon after getting down from a state-run KSRTC bus that brought him and others to the Chikkabanavara Railway station on Wednesday.

According to police, fellow labourers said he had been ailing for quite some time.

The cause of his death would be known only after a post-mortem, police added.

Karnataka government has been sending back thousands of migrant workers stranded in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown by arranging the special trains.

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