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September 11, 2014

Bangalore, Sep 11: The Bangalore Police have arrested the managing director of a Dutch non-profit educational organisation on the charge of raping, cheating and criminally intimidating a 33-year-old woman from Gurgaon.

Dutch heldThe International Airport police on Wednesday arrested Peter de Bruijn, 43, who lives at Sadarahalli near the airport. Bruijn is the managing director of Nuffic Neso India—an organisation in the Netherlands for international co-operation in higher education. The non-profit is based in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The woman lodged the complaint on Tuesday night and claimed that Bruijn had forced her into a physical relationship on the promise of marriage but went back on his word. He cheated her by making false promises in order to satisfy his lust, she contended. DCP?(Northeast) Vikash Kumar Vikash said Bruijn had been booked under Sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC.

Bruijn is in India to promote educational programmes offered by Nuffic Neso India in Holland. He often visits India for official work. He arrived in Bangalore on an employment visa in January this year. Since then he has been staying here.

According to the police, Bruijn met the woman on January 9 through a dating site. She worked for nine years but quit the job last year. The two soon became intimate. Bruijn asked her to come live with him in Bangalore for sometime. She agreed and came to Bangalore on February 1, staying here until February 15.

“He promised to marry me and I trusted him,” she stated in the complaint. “I had a physical relationship with him only after he made the promise. Then I became pregnant and he started avoiding me.”

The woman said Bruijn later persuaded her to undergo an abortion. “I reminded him of his promise of marriage. But I was shocked when he denied having made any such promise.?I had no option but to approach the police.”

According to the woman, Bruijn also lied to her about his marital status. She said he was already married and had a child. “I believed him and stayed with him,” he added.

During the interrogation, Bruijn denied to the police that he was married. He said he was in a live-in-relationship with an Indian woman who bore him a child.

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July 28,2020

Noida, Jul 28: A doctor admitted at a private hospital in Noida has been accused of sexually harassing a patient in his isolation ward, where both were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the police said.

The 20-year-old woman, in her complaint to the police, alleged that the incident took place on Monday and based on that a case was filed at the local expressway police station, they said.

A senior police official said an investigation is underway and there might be lapses on part of the hospital which allegedly admitted a man and a woman in the same isolation ward, in violation of the norms.

The woman and the doctor had tested positive for coronavirus last week, according to officials.

"The woman was in the isolation ward of the private hospital. There was a man, a medical practitioner, who too was infected with coronavirus and was sharing the ward with her," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said.

He said the woman alleged molestation and upon being informed, the police immediately lodged a case and initiated a probe into the matter.

"There appears to be some irresponsibility on part of the hospital too. We are communication with the medical departments to check whether the patients were being kept in accordance with the guidelines," Mr Singh said.

He said the accused is still in isolation but the police will reach out for his statement following due protocols of COVID-19.

"All necessary action will be taken as per the truth that will emerge after a thorough investigation," Mr Singh said.

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June 11,2020

Thrissur, Jun 11: Volunteers of People for Animal Welfare Services rescued a dog that had its mouth sealed with insulation tape around it for two weeks in Ollur of Thrissur district.

The dog has now been shifted to an animal shelter home.

Recently two elephants died in Kerala. One pregnant elephant died after consuming crackers wrapped in some fruits in Palakkad.

Another elephant died in Malappuram after it was found seriously injured in North Nilambur forest range of the district.

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June 29,2020

Khammam, Jun 29: In an outrageous incident, some youths beat up a monkey and strung it up on a tree to death while also releasing dogs to attack it in Ammapalem village in Telangana's Khammam district.

A video of the heinous incident of animal cruelty has surfaced on social media, in which the monkey is seen hanging by a rope from a tree, desperately flailing its limbs while a couple of dogs attempt to pounce on and torment the hapless simian. After a while, several men are seen in the video approaching the animal with long sticks.

Forest officials have charged one villager Venkateshwar Rao under Wildlife Protection Act along with the other accused and arrested them. They were released on bail on Saturday and are set to be summoned for questioning by forest officials.

Rao had spotted the monkey, which had entered his residence apparently in search of food and beat it with a stick and hung it from a tree with the help of his friend.

In the video of the incident, Rao could also be seen instructing his pet dogs to bite the monkey, which was fighting for its life.

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