Mangaluru: Man gets 7 years jail for raping 17-year-old daughter

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January 30, 2018

Mangaluru, Jan 30: A local court here on Monday sentenced a 47-year-old man to seven years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 30,000 on finding him guilty of raping his 17-year-old daughter.

The convict was arrested by the Bajpe police following a complaint from his daughter in 2014. The man was staying with his daughter and his sister-in-law following the death of his wife.

In the charge-sheet, the police said that the man sexually assaulted his daughter when his sister-in-law went to work-. The harassed daughter approached the Childline for help.

She then filed a complaint accusing her father of sexually assaulting her several times.

The II Additional District and Sessions Judge, Sarvodaya Shettigar, after hearing 16 witnesses, convicted the man for the offence of sexually assaulting a minor under Section 4 the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code.

Out of the fine amount of Rs. 30,000, the judge directed that the convicted man pay Rs. 20,000 as compensation to his daughter.

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abbu
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Tuesday, 30 Jan 2018

this all from the BJP and Sanghi RSS parivar...........

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April 4,2020

Hubli, April 3: Twelve people including 5 women as well as 50 unidentified people have been booked for allegedly pelting stones at police personnel in Mantur area of Hubli on Friday.

The police were allegedly attacked for stopping people from offering Friday prayers at a mosque, during the ongoing lockdown put in place in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

"12 people including five women and 50 unidentified people have been booked for stone-pelting at police personnel in Mantur area of Hubli today. The women have been taken into custody while police are searching for the others," said Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissioner R Dilip.

The Police Commissioner further said, "Some prominent people of the community had also urged the devotees to go to their homes but they got agitated."

"Four policemen have sustained minor injuries in the incident," he said adding that "legal action will be taken against the culprits." 

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June 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 10: The Karnataka Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday conducted raids at 14 places linked to four government officials in the state.

On receiving received credible information about the officials amassing disproportionate assets, an illegal assets case was registered and raids are being conducted at 14 places linked to them, ACB said in a release.

It said the raids are still on and investigation is being carried out about their assets.

Raids are being conducted on properties linked to L Sathish Kumar, Additional Commissioner, Department of Commercial Tax; N Ramakrishna, Divisional Forest Officer, Srinivasapura, Kolar; Gopalshetty Mallikarjuna, Executive Engineer, District Development Cell, Raichur; Raghappa Lalappa Lamani, Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam Ltd official in Almatti, Bagalkote, the release said.

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July 27,2020

Kasaragod, Jul 27: Seven persons belonging to two relative-families who attended a funeral recently had been tested positive for Coronavirus on Monday.

Sources said the two families had been to Thavinjal near here for the funeral of a man who died at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital on July 19.

Later, the samples of these seven persons were sent for testing after they developed symptoms of COVID-19, the result of which came out on Monday.

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