Upset over wife's death, man kills daughter, self in Bangaloregalore

April 28, 2013

Bangalore, Apr 28: Unable to come to terms with his wife’s death, a 35-year-old man committed suicide after killing his daughter at a jungle lodge and resort in Bannerghatta National Park. The incident came to light on Saturday.Man_kills_daughter

Aravind Ramaswamy Reddy, employed with an MNC in Singapore and his daughter Lakshya (8) checked into the resort run by the tourism department on Friday and took a guided tour of the park in the afternoon. They were served dinner in their room, an employee of the resort told police.

An attendant who called on the father-daughter duo at their room on Saturday morning grew suspicious after nobody responded to his knocks. He alerted his colleagues, who broke open the door, only to find Aravind and Lakshya dead.

Lakshya was found lying on a cot, frothing at the mouth while Aravind lay on the floor with a towel around his neck. His legs were tied with plastic string. The Bannerghatta police were immediately informed.

The police claimed to have recovered a suicide note, wherein Aravind held himself responsible for his action. Depression over his wife’s death drove him to kill himself and his daughter, Aravind wrote in the note. He also appealed his family to bury him and Lakshya next to his wife and burn the gifts the couple had exchanged over the years.

Sources said the police found sleeping pills in the room. The police suspected that Aravind might have served Lakshya “rasam” spiked with sleeping pills for dinner.

He then tied his legs and strangled himself with a towel. It was not clear whether Aravind consumed sleeping pills as well.

Aravind met Sindhura while pursuing engineering in a City college. They fell in love and got married. However, the halcyon days of their married life came to an abrupt end as Sindhura died of renal failure four years ago.

Lakshya, a class IV student at Lawrence School in J P Nagar, was living with her uncle Kishore at J P Nagar, 7th Phase. Aravind stayed alone in Singapore, but visited India at least once in three months. He arrived a few days ago and took the family to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for a holiday.

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March 28,2020

Hyderabad, Mar 28: Seven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said.

The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and two while undergoing treatment at a hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Traffic Vishwa Prasad said.
Four others were hospitalised and the condition of one of them is critical, he said, adding the other workers in the van escaped with minor injuries.

The workers were on their way back to their home town Raichur in Karnataka as the road project they were working in at Suryapet here was stalled due to the lockdown, Prasad said.

He said initital investigations revealed that the mango laden truck, which was on its way to Gujarat, was overspeeding.

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January 21,2020

Tengnoupal, Jan 21: A woman IPS officer has alleged that a rifleman of Assam Rifles physically assaulted and molested her at a check post near Moreh town in Manipur's Tengnoupal district, police said on Tuesday.

Based on a written complaint of the IPS officer, an FIR has been registered against rifleman P K Pandey and a summon has been issued to him to appear before the concerned police station, the police said.

Manipur DGP L M Khaute told reporters on Monday, "We have made contacts with the Assam Rifles authorities. A complaint has been lodged by the officer." In her complaint, the IPS officer said that on reaching Khudengtabi check post on Sunday afternoon one of her escorts, who was not in uniform, told the frisking party of Assam Rifles to register their entry.

Despite showing their identity cards, the rifleman allegedly detained them, she said.

"We offered to search ourselves and the vehicle, but he was not interested", she said.

The rifleman began hitting the official vehicle and "misbehaved, humiliated, harassed and assaulted me and my escort personnel," she alleged.

The IPS officer also alleged that the rifleman molested her and when her escorts tried to intervene, he thrashed them.

She further accused the rifleman of making "sexually coloured" remarks against her, using abusive language and even tried to snatch her phone when she tried to call her senior officers.

The issue was brought under control after the matter was reported to the Brigadier of 26th Assam Rifles and the Major of the D-company of 12th AR, police said.

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June 26,2020

Kozhikode, Jun 26: A man, who had returned from Bahrain on Thursday and has been under quarantine at his house in Villyapallai near here, has been stabbed on his arm by an unidentified person.

Police sources said the assailant, with a masked face, had ransacked the man's house by break-opening the door at midnight lat night and stabbed Lijeesh on his arm and fled from the scene.

The nearby residents took Lijeesh to a nearby hospital and was put back on quarantine. 

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