City teen found murdered; pals suspected

March 28, 2012

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Bangalore, March 28: The mutilated body of a 13-year-old boy was recovered from the foothills of Hanumagiri hill at Ittamadu here on Tuesday morning.


The Subramanyapura police have zeroed in on four boys from a nearby slum as suspects in the alleged murder of Abhishek, a class VIII student of Ittamadu Government High School. A case has been registered and the suspects are being questioned.

Abhishek went missing on Monday evening after appearing for his annual examination. Worried when he did not return even late at night, members of his family launched a search. On Tuesday morning, they contacted the boy with whom Abhishek was last seen.

Sources said by the time the family reached Hanumagiri hill, guided by the boy, police were already there trying to identify a naked body with 13 stab wounds on the forehead, eye and left part of the chest. It was identified as Abhishek’s.

The police immediately detained the boy who had led the family to the spot. Based on information from him, four more boys of the same age group were detained, two of them Abhishek’s classmates and others dropouts from a nearby slum.

The boys reportedly met Abhishek around 4.30 pm on Monday and asked him to join them for a swim in a pond on the other side of Hanumagiri hill. It is alleged the boys were drunk and a brawl ensued amongthem. Abhishek is said to have hit them with a bat and chased them away. The group returned by late evening and took him away.

Michael Raj, a Parish Council member of a church on Hanumagiri Hill, spotted the boy’s body and reported it to the police. He said the incident might have occured between 12.30-1 am, as the neighbouring houses and the church watchman heard the street dogs barking. They ignored the commotion, presuming it to be a pack of dogs fighting, he said.


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January 17,2020

Jan 17: Police have busted a "high- profile" sex racket operating in a three-star hotel in suburban Andheri and arrested a 29-year-old woman and rescued three female artists, including a minor, an official said on Thursday.

The Social Service (SS) branch of the city police conducted the raid at the hotel at Andheri East on Thursday, the official said.

"During the raid, three females, including a minor, were found to have been forced into prostitution. They were rescued and a woman, identified as Priya Sharma, who was operating the racket, was arrested," he said.

"Sharma was running tours and travel agency in Kandivali East. However, she was involved in immoral activities," senior inspector of SS branch, Sandesh Revale, said.

While one of the rescued is a woman actor and singer, who has worked in 'Savdhaan India' TV crime show, he said, another one has worked in a Marathi movie and serials.

The minor has worked in a web series, Revale added.

The offence was being registered against Sharma, he said.

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May 11,2020

May 11: Two youths allegedly gang-raped a teen and then hacked to death her 11-year old brother, who had seen their act, in a bid to hide their crime, at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Etah district, about 300 kilometres from here.

Police sources said that two youths, resident of the same village, barged into the house of the teen, when she was alone, and allegedly gang-raped her.

The victim's minor brother suddenly came into the house and protested after he witnessed his sister being sexually assaulted, sources said. The youths allegedly strangled the minor with a towel.

The alleged culprits, who hailed from influential families, 'forced' the victim's parents to bury their son and warned them against approaching the cops.

The parents, however, gathered courage and met senior police officials in Etah on Sunday after a case was registered in this regard. Police said that the body of the minor would be exhumed and a postmortem examination would be conducted.

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April 24,2020

Thane, Apr 24: A 34-year-old man was allegedly attacked on suspicion of being a COVID-19 patient and died after falling into a gutter during the assault in Kalyan town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Wednesday morning, when Ganesh Gupta had stepped out of his home to purchase some essentials amid the COVID-19 lockdown, an official said.

On noticing some policemen manning the street, the victim took an alternate route, where a few passersby assaulted him after he coughed while walking, he said.

The men suspected him of being a COVID-19 patient and attacked him, causing him to fall into a gutter and die, the official said.

The deceased's body was sent for post-mortem and a case of accidental death has been registered as of now, the station house officer of the Khadakpada police station said.

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