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Student Gets Life Sentence for Killing Lover

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September 20, 2014

Bangalore, Sep 20: A 28-year-old man was awarded life term for murdering a 31-year-old homemaker, who had allegedly blackmailed him for sex.

prisonerJudge Vishwanath V Angadi of the Principal City Civil and Sessions Court also slapped a fine of `10,000 on Lalan alias Lalan Kumar. Lalan appealed to the court to spare him from a life term as he was still a student and had got married while out on bail.

According to the prosecution, Lalan, an MCA student, lived with his sister and brother-in-law in Bhuvaneshwari Nagar, near Peenya, and the victim, Latha Kumari, was his neighbour.

Latha and her two sons — aged six and eleven — lived in a rented house while her husband was away in Saudi Arabia.

N M Bellakki, principal public prosecutor, submitted to the court that Lalan had confessed that his friendship with Latha had turned intimate and she would often force him to have sex with her.

On the night of December 17, 2010, Latha invited Lalan home. On her advice, he told his sister he was visiting a friend’s house. He went over at 10.30 pm and found her children in the hall. Latha asked them to sleep and switched off the lights.

She then took Lalan to her room where they made love. When her demands for intimacy grew and he refused, she threatened to reveal their relationship to his sister and also file a rape case against him.

Lalan then took a towel and strangled Latha, Bellakki told the court.

Lalan took Latha’s mobile before escaping, destroyed the SIM card and flung the handset into the bushes near Soladevanahalli railway station.

The murder came to light when Latha’s elder son found her room and the main door locked and screamed for help. Neighbours broke open the doors and found Latha’s body on her bed.

Later, Latha’s father registered a complaint with the Peenya police. When he asked his grandson about frequent visitors, the names of Lalan and Nanjunda, another with whom Latha was allegedly involved, came up.

The boy revealed that Lalan had visited them on the fateful day. Panic-stricken, Lalan had stayed with his friends for three days after the incident. But the police caught him on December 21.

Judge Angadi said Lalan should have approached an appropriate authority and sought advice, instead of murdering Latha.

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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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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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July 22,2020

Mathura, Jul 22: A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the murder of royal Raja Man Singh in 1985.

District Judge Sadhana Rani Thakur announced the life imprisonment sentence a day after holding them guilty of the killing. Three policemen were, however, acquitted. Four men died during the trial.

The policemen were convicted under Section 302 (murder), 148 (rioting) and 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code.

The verdict comes 35 years after Man Singh was killed. He, along with two others, was shot dead in police firing a day after he crashed his jeep into the then Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur's helicopter in a fit of anger.

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