Couple allege torture, abuse by gang of 11

December 27, 2011

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Bangalore, December 27: A young couple faced a harrowing time for over two hours on Sunday night as an 11-member gang ‘tortured and abused’ them inside a cemetery on Berlie Street in the Ashok Nagar police station limits.

The police managed to arrest some members of the gang and register a case of ‘dacoity’, but the investigation into the incident is still on.

The victim, a BCom student and a resident of Oleff Street, and her friend paid a big price for taking a short cut to reach Wilson Garden.

Residents here use the small stretch (18 feet road) that passes through the cemetery near Berlie Street, Langford Town, Ashok Nagar which connects to Vinaya Nagar, behind BMTC depot in Wilson Garden. Berlie Street falls under Ashok Nagar limits, while Vinaya Nagar is under the jurisdiction of the Wilson Garden police.

Sources said, from 7.40 pm to nearly 9.50 pm, a gang led by Anthony Raj and his associates virtually played havoc with the victims’ life.

She was going on a bike with her friend Yash Raj. An eye witness, who helped the

victims, narrated the horrifying incident to Deccan Herald: “The two were waylaid by four members –– Anthony Raj and three others.

They forced the boy to get down from the bike, snatched the keys, mobile phone and a music player. They tied the boy’s hands with the wire of a cellphone charger and rained blows on him.

The gang demanded Rs 10,000 and took away the girl’s gold ornaments and cell phone. They misbehaved with the couple and even called their friends –– David, Stephen, Nagaraj, Ramesh and others –– to join them.”

The boy’s screams for help went unheard in the dark, deserted lane, till a passerby noticed what was happening and roped in a few others and rushed to the rescue of the couple. The gang immediately fled the spot.

Jurisdictional problem

The shocked boy rushed to the Wilson Garden police station and narrated the incident to the duty officers.

The police acted swiftly and arrested Anthony Raj based on the description provided. A few others were picked up in the next few hours.

The age-old jurisdictional problems continue to haunt police stations.

Vagabonds, drug addicts, gamblers use the cemetery ‘thoroughfare’ as their den and consider it a safe zone for their illegal activities.

For a few years, police had closed the stretch but due to change of guard at both the police stations and lack of communication among officers, the gates were thrown open.

Residents of Berlie Street fume at the locality police for their insensitive attitude and lack of police patrolling.

“Most of the policemen are seen on Brigade Road, in and around malls, wine shops, bar and restaurants, discotheques and pubs. They forget that residents too live in the central parts of Bangalore. They should identify sensitive areas and deploy tight security,” a resident said.

As of now, a dacoity case has been registered since the girl is yet to come out of her traumatic experience.

The police are waiting for the girl to register a complaint, so that the accused can be dealt with under far more stringent provisions of criminal law.

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May 28,2020

Hyderabad, MAY 28: A three-year-old boy who accidentally fell into a newly drilled open borewell in Telangana's Medak district was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

The kid's body was retrieved at around 4 am after a nearly 10 hours' long rescue operation involving different agencies, they said.

"He died a while before we evacuated him, most likely due to the mud that covered him from the top sealing off necessary oxygen supply, " Medak District Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti told PTI.

The boy had accidentally slipped into the 120- feet borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday in an agricultural field located in Papannapet mandal of the district when he was walking with his grandfather and father, police earlier said.

As part of rescue efforts, a parallel trench was dug along the borewell hole with the help of earth excavating machines and oxygen was supplied into it, but the efforts went in vain as the boy's body was found stuck at a depth of around 25 feet, the police said.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were also involved in the rescue operation.

The borewell into which the child fell was one among the three dug by the family since Tuesday night to try and find water for their fields. But none of them yielded any water, police had said.

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Agencies
March 24,2020

Kochi, Mar 24: A 54-year-old domestic passenger was arrested at the airport here for allegedly refusing to follow instructions given by doctorsfor prevention of the spread of novel coronavirus, police said here on Tuesday.

Lami Arackal from Ernakulam, who landed from Chennai at the Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery on Monday night, was arrested based on a complaint from health officials, they said.

He was, however, later released on bail.

Arackal allegedly refused to wear mask and follow other instructions to be observed by the passengers coming from other states as part of the measures to check COVID-19 spread.

He also allegedly misbehaved with the medical officers, police said.

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Agencies
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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