Man killed for attempting to stop eve-teasers harassing his niece

May 2, 2012

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Bangalore, May 2: A 57-year-old man died after he took objection to two molesters making snide remarks at his niece and was punched and pushed about by the duo at Ambedkarnagar, DJ Halli, off Tannery Road, late on Monday night.

The victim, Alagesh alias Alagaiah, an employee of BEML tools department, was a heart patient and had undergone bypass surgery four months ago. He was rushed to Mediscope hospital as he complained of severe chest pain after he was manhandled by the two youths. He died in hospital.

The accused have been identified as Karunakaran alias Karuna and Deepu alias Deepakraj, both residents of Ayodhya Das Nagar, a few hundred metres away from Ambedkarnagar. Both the accused are in their early 20s. They are school dropouts and work as mosaic tile polishers, police said. They have been arrested and booked under Section 304 of IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).

Alagesh's 13-year-old niece, Hemamalini (name changed), went to a grocer's shop near her home to buy some provisions at 6.30 pm. The grocer had to pay the girl 50 paise and he told her that he did not have the change. The girl insisted that she be given the change. The grocer in turn chided her. The two accused, who were smoking in front of the shop, asked the girl whether she would build a house with the 50 paise.

Insulted, Hema returned home and told her mother, Nalina, that the two youths had teased her. Around 8.30 pm, the accused were passing before Hema's house and the girl told her mother that they were the ones who had teased her. The woman questioned the youths on why they had teased her daughter. "Yes. We did. So what?" the youths shot back. Alagesh, who stayed next door, came out and intervened.

"Deepu held Alagesh, while Karuna punched him and pushed him on to the ground," Hema's mother said. Alagesh collapsed on the spot and was rushed to hospital. According to the girl, the accused had the habit of teasing girls. "They always stand near the shop and tease girls and women," she told police.

Alagesh is survived by two sons. Hailing from Vellore in Tamil Nadu, Alagesh was brother of Hema's father Vijay Kumar. The brothers had moved to Bangalore 25 years ago."

What law says

Though the law in India doesn't use the term 'eve-teasing', victims usually seek recourse through Section 298 (A) and (B) of the IPC. It sentences a man found guilty of making a girl or woman the target of obscene gestures, remarks, songs or recitation to a maximum jail sentence of three months. Section 292 of the IPC says that showing pornographic or obscene pictures, books or slips to a woman or girl draws a fine of Rs 2,000 with two years of imprisonment of either description for first offenders. In the case of a repeated offence, the penalty will be a five-year jail term with a fine of Rs 5,000. Under Section 509 of IPC, obscene gestures, indecent body language or acidic comments directed at any woman or girl or exhibits any such object or intrudes upon the privacy of woman carries a penalty of simple imprisonment for one year or a fine or both.


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June 5,2020

Jun 5: A young woman was forced to drink liquor allegedly by her husband after which he along with four friends assaulted, burnt her with cigarette butts and raped her in front of her five year-old son, police said on Friday.

All the five, who were taken into custody earlier, have been arrested. The shocking incident occurred in the state capital last night.

The incident came to light after the 25-year-old woman, approached police and complained against her husband and his four friends.

A case has been registered against the five accused for kidnapping, assaulting and gangrape.

Since the incident took place in front of the child, a case under Protection of children from sexual offices Act has also been charged against the accused.

Meanwhile, State health and family welfare minister K K Shailaja asked the state police chief to take stringentction against the culprits as "such cruelty happened in front of her child."

The Kerala State Women's Commission on its own registered a case and sought report from the Thiruvananthapuram Rural SP.

She managed to escape from there and pleaded for help from a young man, who saw in heran inebriatedstate, and took her to her house and informed police.

The man later told some television channels that she was crying, had injuries on her face and pleaded for help.

Police have recorded the statement of the woman, who was admitted to a government hospital here and later discharged.

She had also stated that the men had tortured her using cigarette butts.

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June 11,2020

Muzaffarnagar, Jun 11: Three persons have been arrested for allegedly using plastic scrap to make jaggery at Bhokaheri village under Bhopa police station here, as official said on Thursday.

 Police raided a jaggery manufacturing unite (kolhu) and arrested three persons on Wednesday, SHO, Bhopa police station Sanjive Kumar said.

Police have registered a case against five persons including the trio that was arrested while two of them managed to escape, he said, adding that two loaded tractor trollies of plastic scrap have been seized.

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July 12,2020

Tamil Nadu, Jul 12: An alleged attempt by a 19-year-old man to "open a branch of the State Bank of India" at Panruti near Tamil Nadu was scuttled and he was arrested for forgery, police said on Saturday.

The man, son of retired SBI employees, had readied fake seals and challans of the public sector lender, and had other paraphernalia like a cash counting machine needed "to run a bank branch," on an upper floor of his residence at Panruti, about 25 km from Tamil Nadu.

He had not, however, put up any signboard. The SBI Panruti branch manager lodged a complaint with police seeking action following a tip-off by a customer that the man was "opening an SBI branch and has challans as well."

A printer who printed the challans and another who had made fake seals were held for similar offences and abetment.

They were produced before a magistrate court and enlarged on bail.

Asked if the man had cheated people by soliciting deposits or facilitating loans, Panruti police inspector K Ambethkar said, "no..we have not received any such complaint so far."

The man's late father had worked for SBI and his mother had retired from the same bank some time back, he said.

To a question, the police inspector said the man's mother, who has mobility issues, and another woman a relative living in the same house had no clue about his "idea."

Investigations revealed that he aspired to work for a bank and since he had closely watched banking operations for long he was "very knowledgeable" about it.

On the suspected motive, he said several of his replies were incomprehensible, childish, and strange notwithstanding his excellent understanding of the banking processes.

"He even calmly told us that he awaited approval from Mumbai to open the (SBI) branch and that he was about to put up a signboard," the inspector said, adding that the man had tried unsuccessfully to get employment on compassionate grounds in the SBI following the death of his father in harness.

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