6-year-old brutually killed after sexual abuse in Haryana

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December 10, 2017

Chandigarh, Dec 10: A 6-year-old girl was sexually abused and then brutally murdered in the suburban town of Uklana in Haryana's Hisar district on Saturday. The girl, daughter of a dalit couple lived in a tent-like structure on roadside with her family.

The girl, from the Sapera community, had two siblings, including a sister.

Her body was found at some distance from the place where her family had pitched its tent close to local telephone exchange. She had gone to sleep with her mother and two siblings in the tent at around 9pm, her mother told the police. Her father, a rag-picker, was away in Delhi.

The unidentified murderer had inserted a wooden stick in her body, which was clearly visible when the body was found. Her body parts were badly brutalized and blood was spilled all over.

Her mother, meanwhile, had raised the alarm on Saturday morning after she found her daughter was missing and a search was launched.

According to the Hisar police, at around 9am on Saturday the local police station received a call about discovery of a badly brutalized body of a girl. Inspector Sandeep Kumar, the SHO of Uklana police station was the first to reach there. A team of crime and forensic experts too rushed to the spot to collect evidence. Her mother along with some locals reached the area, identified the body and provided details to the police.

SIT probing Hisar case, cyber cell help sought

Hisar SP Manisha Chaudhary said, "While the cops were examining the area, the girl's mother and her family too reached there and identified the body. We could see a wooden stick inserted in her body. There was lot of blood beneath her head as well. The exact cause of death, number of injuries and other details will be ascertained only after we receive the autopsy report from the medical board. The body has been handed over to family and our investigation has started".

"As of now, we are working on different theories in this case. A special investigation team headed by a DSP-level officer has been put on the job. At the same time, we have also sought help from the cyber cell to take the mobile dump of the tower," she added.

The last rites of the young girl were not performed till late on Saturday after angry locals and the girl's family staged a protest over alleged lapse in proper treatment of her body after the autopsy. The victim's body was returned to her family in the bloodsoaked cloth used by the police to send it for the autopsy.

Haryana Congress general secretary and former MLA Naresh Selwal termed the lapse as a totally inhuman act by those involved in the autopsy and the inquest proceedings. By the time of filing this report, the police were trying to pacify the girl's family as well locals who refused to perform the last rites.

Meanwhile, former CM Bhupinder Hooda has written an open letter to Haryana CM ML Khattar asking him to take measures to control rising crime graph in the state.

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January 8,2020

Muzaffarpur, Jan 8: There is no evidence of murder of children in Bihar's Muzaffarpur shelter home, the CBI on Wednesday told the Supreme Court.

The probe agency told the apex court that two skeletons were recovered from the home's premises which were later, in forensic investigation, found to be of a woman and a man.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde accepted the status report of the CBI and allowed two officers to be relieved from the investigation team.

Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the probe agency, said investigation was done on allegations of rape and sexual assault of children and charge sheets have been filed before the courts concerned.

Venugopal said the children, who were alleged to have been murdered, were later traced and found to be alive.

He said the CBI has investigated cases of 17 shelter homes in Bihar and charge sheets have been filed in 13 of them, while in four cases the preliminary inquiry was conducted and later closed as no evidence of any wrongdoing was found.

The probe agency, in its status report filed on Monday, said no incriminating evidence proving commission of any criminal offence could be gathered in four preliminary enquiries and as such no FIR has been registered.

The CBI had also said the Bihar government has been requested to take departmental action and action of cancellation of registration and blacklisting of concerned NGOs by providing them the result of investigation, i.e., the CBI report.

Several girls were allegedly sexually and physically assaulted at a shelter home run by an NGO in Bihar's Muzaffarpur. The issue had come to light following a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

Following the report, a petition was filed in the apex court seeking lodging of an FIR and court-monitored probe by an independent agency into the allegations.

The plea filed by journalist Nivedita Jha through advocate Fauzia Shakil has sought "registration of FIR and independent investigations or court monitored probe into the affairs of these 14 (other) shelter homes in Bihar mentioned in the TISS report".

The apex court had directed the CBI to probe the offences under the Information Technology Act regarding the video recordings of the alleged assault on girls at the shelter home.

It had also directed the agency to investigate the role of "outsiders who were involved and facilitated the sexual assaults on the inmates", after administering them intoxicants and also against those who allegedly indulged in trafficking of girls from the shelter home.

The apex court had earlier directed the CBI to complete its probe into the alleged murder of 11 girls at the shelter home and asked it to file a status report.

The SC had transferred the case from Bihar to a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Saket District Court complex in Delhi.

Earlier, the top court had directed the CBI to conduct a probe into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of inmates in 16 other shelter homes in Bihar which were flagged in the TISS report.

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Agencies
January 11,2020

New Delhi, Jan 11: Assets worth Rs 78 crore have been attached by the ED in connection with a money laundering probe against former ICICI Bank Chairman Chanda Kochhar and others, officials said on Friday.

A provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been issued for attachment of the properties that includes Kochhar's Mumbai-based house and some other assets belonging to a company linked to her, they said.

The book value of the attached assets is Rs 78 crore, they said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and others in a case of alleged irregularities and money laundering in giving loans by the bank to the Videocon group.

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June 14,2020

Mandya, Jun 14: In a tragic incident, a woman and her two children were drowned in a pond at Beeranahalli village in Nagamangala taluk of this district on Sunday.

Police said that the deceased have been identified as Geeta (40), and her two children Savita(19) and Soumya(14).

Savaitha is a degree student while Soumya was studying in 9th standard. The trio drowned in a pond where they had gone to wash their cows. The locals rushed to the spot and tried to rescue them but could not save.

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