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Telangana: Beautician ends life, sub-inspector shoots himself day later

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June 16, 2017

Hyderabad, Jun 16: A sub-inspector from Kukunoorpally police station allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in his home in Siddipet, just a day after a 28-year-old woman employee of a photo studio ended her life.suicide

While relatives of sub-inspector P. Prabhakar Reddy alleged that he committed suicide due to harassment from his seniors, police officials say that Prabhakar Reddy had made sexual advances to the woman, Arusumilli Vijayalakshmi, alias Sirisha, a day before her death. They allege that he killed himself after TV channels started playing up the death of Sirisha, portraying it as a highly suspicious death.

Sirisha, who worked as a beautician and HR manager in RJ Photography near Filmnagar in Jubilee Hills, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her office on Tuesday morning. A case of suspicious death was filed but the news broke only on Wednesday morning.

Prabhakar Reddy, 32, was found lying dead on a chair at his house in the police quarters by his colleagues on Wednesday afternoon. The police suspect that he killed himself between 12.45 pm and 1 pm. His service pistol was found near his body.

His colleagues said he had come to work in the morning. He left the police station at 12 noon. He was still wearing his uniform when his body was found.

Violence erupts in Siddipet over SI’s death, kin allege harassment

Prabhakar Reddy’s wife and children were in their native village of Aloor. Strangely, Prabhakar Reddy had taken over as the Kukunoorpally SI after his predecessor, V Ramakrishna Reddy, 45, shot himself with his service pistol last year.

Telangana’s Director General of Police, Anurag Sharma, said that an investigation has been launched and it will be looking into all aspects of the death. Mr Sharma has also transferred Siddipet ACP Giridhar and attached him to the headquarters.

Meanwhile, violence erupted in Siddipet following the death of the SI. Locals started a rasta roko on the Karimnagar highway and at the Kukunoorpally police station. SI Prabhakar Reddy’s relatives came out on the road to protest. They said harassment by top cops pushed him to suicide. Police had to divert buses and heavy vehicles from Siddipet.

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July 22,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 22:An accused in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act jumped into the sea on Wednesday morning when he was taken for evidence collection at Kasaba in Kasargode district, police said.

Accused Mahesh was arrested following a complaint by his neighbour on Tuesday evening.

The police said that they took the accused to the seashore to collect evidence in the case when Mahesh jumped into the sea. Two police officials too jumped in after him to catch hold of him but could not locate Mahesh.

Later, swimmers were deployed to try and locate the missing man.

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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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July 19,2020

Thane, Jul 19: A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing his wife after picking up a fight as he did not like the food she cooked, Thane police said.

Sachin Godane, a resident of Gaikwad Pada in Ambernath, locked his two children and an aunt in one room of the house on Friday afternoon and brutally beat up his wife Chandrakala (28) with a log and then strangled her, said Assistant Inspector JB Bhoyer of Shivajinagar police station.

Godane has been remanded in police custody for four days, he added. 

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