Student Gets Life Sentence for Killing Lover

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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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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July 20,2020

Kozhikode, Jul 20: A 17-year old boy died of head injuries while trying to protect his mother from being assaulted by his drunk father here, police said on Sunday.

The youngster suffered the fatal injury after his head hit against the door when his father shoved him at their home on Saturday. Venu, had come home in an inebriated state and picked up a quarrel with his wife and started beating her up, they said.

On seeing this, Alan tried to intervene. Though the boy was rushed to the hospital, his life could not be saved, they added. Venu was arrested and a case has been registered.

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March 7,2020

Palghar, Mar 7: Police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating several shopkeepers in Maharashtra's Thane, Pune and Nashik by making phone calls in a woman's voice, police said on Friday.

The accused, Shashikant Ambekar (42), a resident of Palghar, was arrested in the last week of February, they said.

"He used to note down the phone numbers mentioned on different shops and call the owners in a woman's voice to order some things from them. He would tell them that he had a Rs 2000 currency note and needed change," an official said.

"He would ask the shopkeepers to send smaller denomination notes for exchange. He would wait at the entrance of buildings and when the delivery man arrived, he used to tell that he was there on behalf of the ''caller woman''.

"He would then take the currency notes from the delivery man saying he would get the Rs 2,000 note from the woman. However, he would disappear from the scene," the official said.

Police have seized Rs 1,85,000 from the accused and found that so far he has committed 22 similar crimes in different parts of the state.

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