Police nab eight more over PU paper leak

April 3, 2012

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Bangalore, April 3: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said on Monday that its investigation into the series of II?Pre-university question paper leaks has revealed the involvement of several government lecturers and employees.


The CID, which arrested 10 people in this connection so far, eight of them on Monday, has traced the leak to a sub-treasury in Kadur taluk in Chikmagalur district. R K Dutta, Director-General, CID, alleged that Munawwar Pasha, 31, a resource teacher at the Kadur Block Resource Centre, and H S Sunil Kumar, 34, a 2nd division clerk at the sub-treasury were the kingpins of the scam.

Elaborating on the manner in which the leak happened, Dutta said:?“Chandrashekar, the Kadur sub-treasury officer, had left the keys of the treasury with Sunil Kumar who conspired with Pasha. Kumar allowed Pasha to enter the strong room on March 14, pull out a copy of the biology paper, take photocopies of it and replace it.”

Similarly, they photocopied the mathematics and physics question papers on the same day, Dutta said.

He charged that Pasha had collected Rs 1.5 lakh from various persons and that he sent these papers to Siddaramaiah, an assistant teacher at Chikmagalur and T Sonnappa, an assistant teacher at Doddakurubarahalli, Bangalore, who had allegedly mailed and faxed it to various people.

Siddaramaiah was arrested by the Chikmagalur police even before the case was entrusted to the CID. And the CID was able to track two sets of people through whom the papers had been in circulation and have arrested the eight people.

The agency has found that the keys to the strong room in the sub-treasury were found, in violation of rules, with Sunil Kumar even on Monday, when he was arrested.

“Not only was he entrusted with the keys when the leaks took place, but even today (Monday) the keys were with him,” a senior CID official said. Sub-treasury officer Chandrashekhar who was responsible for the keys had not offered a good explanation, the official said. The CID has made interim recommendations to the government to prevent such incidents. A full report along with the recommendations will be submitted to the government once the investigation is complete.

The agency is yet to verify if Chandrashekar was only negligent or if he had actually connived with the racketeers. Dutta, indicating that the investigation was not complete, said there could be more than one source of leakage and that more persons could be involved.


Culprits identified

Those arrested on Monday have been identified as Munawwar Pasha, 31, H S Sunil Kumar, 34, T Sonnappa, 37 an assistant teacher, C P Ramesh, 42, G Prahlad, 49, Anil Rahut, 27, Shashidhar, 28 and T Ravikumar, 28.

Yogeshwar, 36, and Siddaramaiah,44, were arrested earlier in Chitradurga and Chikmagalur respectively earlier.


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July 17,2020

Patna, Jul 17: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a security guard at the Covid-19 quarantine center of the Patna Medical College Hospital where she was admitted after being rescued from a railway station, police said on Thursday.

The accused, Mahesh (40), was arrested on Wednesday night after being booked under the POCSO Act and other relevant IPC sections by the Pir Bahore police station, according to Arti Jaiswal, the in-charge of the women's police station here.

“The accused is being sent to jail while the victim will be undergoing medical tests on Thursday, as is the norm for all sexual assault survivors," Jaiswal said.

The girl had run away from her home in Nalanda district more than a week ago and reached Barh railway station on the outskirts of Patna to catch a train for Kolkata where her father is a daily wage-earner, police said.

She was spotted by Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel who informed the child helpline. The child helpline personnel, taking note of the girl’s tender age and her disturbed frame of mind, convinced her not to undertake the journey and brought her to the hospital’s quarantine ward for COVID-19 suspects as a precautionary measure, they said.

On the night of July 8, a few hours after the girl's arrival at the hospital, she was caught hold of by the accused inside the bathroom and allegedly raped. The accused also threatened her with dire consequences if she spilt the beans and, as per the FIR, kept harassing her sexually.

She finally decided to speak up when another girl, carrying a mobile phone, was similarly brought to the hospital by child helpline a couple of days ago. Using the fellow inmate’s phone, she narrated her ordeal to the helpline personnel who informed the police.

“Her Covid-19 test report is negative. After her examination, for the sexual assault, by a six-member medical board is over, she will be sent to a shelter home by the child helpline," Jaiswal said.

Meanwhile, state women’s commission chairperson Dilmani Mishra strongly reacted to the incident and said, “We are waiting for the medical reports of the girl. We will ensure that justice is done in the matter.”

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February 10,2020

New Delhi, Feb 10: A 44-year-old man allegedly killed his daughter and son before ending his life by jumping in front of a Delhi metro train at Haiderpur Badli Mor station on Sunday, police said.

No suicide note has been recovered, but police claimed that the man, Madhur Malani, was depressed since his sandpaper-manufacturing factory was closed some six months ago due to financial crunch leaving him jobless. Madhur's parents had been supporting his family financially since then.

He used to stay with his wife Rupali, daughter Samiksha (14) and six-year-old son Shraiyans at a rented house in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area, they said.

Rupali was not at home when Madhur strangled their children. He might have also smothered their daughter but the exact cause of death would be ascertained only after the post-mortem reports arrive, a police official said.

After killing his two children, he jumped in front of an approaching train at Haiderpur Badli Mor Metro station following which he was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him 'brought dead', the official said.

Metro services on the Yellow Line were briefly delayed due to the incident.

"Delay in services from Samaypur Badli to GTB Nagar due to a passenger on track at Haiderpur Badli Mor," the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) tweeted.

After about 15 minutes, it again tweeted that normal services have been restored. The Delhi Metro's Yellow Line connects Samaypur Badli in Delhi to HUDA City Centre in Gurgaon.

The suicide was reported to the police around 5.40 pm while the Shalimar Bagh Police station received a call about the killings around 6.50 pm.

On reaching the house, police found bodies of the children lying in beds in two rooms. During enquiry, it was learnt that their father has left the house, a senior police officer said.

While police were trying to trace Madhur, they learnt about a suicide at the metro station. On verifying the details, it surfaced that Madhur committed suicide after killing his children, the officer said.

Rupali told police that she had gone to a nearby market around 3 pm and on returning home she found the bodies of her children while her husband was missing.

A case under relevant sections of the IPC has been registered and investigation was underway, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said.

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Agencies
July 22,2020

Mathura, Jul 22: A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the murder of royal Raja Man Singh in 1985.

District Judge Sadhana Rani Thakur announced the life imprisonment sentence a day after holding them guilty of the killing. Three policemen were, however, acquitted. Four men died during the trial.

The policemen were convicted under Section 302 (murder), 148 (rioting) and 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code.

The verdict comes 35 years after Man Singh was killed. He, along with two others, was shot dead in police firing a day after he crashed his jeep into the then Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur's helicopter in a fit of anger.

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