Police said at 11.15 pm on Wednesday, Chandrababu was standing on Doddabele Main Road.

A 20-year-old mechanic was stabbed to death by three persons, including a friend, over a trivial issue at Doddabele in Kumbalagodu police station limits on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday night.

The deceased has been identified as Chandrababu. Police are on the lookout for the accused Ranjith (28) and his two associates. Both were residents of Doddabele. Chandrababu was a mechanic while his friend Ranjith worked as a delivery boy at a biscuit factory.

Police said at 11.15 pm on Wednesday, Chandrababu was standing on Doddabele Main Road. Meanwhile, Ranjith and his aides, who were drunk, were passing by and Chandrababu stared at him and allegedly passed some comment. Ranjith was enraged by this and picked up a fight with Chandrababu.

While two of his aides assaulted him, Ranjith, allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Chandrababu. While the three escaped, passersby rushed the injured to a hospital, where he was declared brought dead. Kumbalagodu police have registered a murder case.

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A 41-year-old man with four aliases, who posed as a choreographer, cheated a woman of Rs 90 lakh after befriending her on Facebook and promising to marry her. The accused, Vadiraj Gowda was arrested by Yeshwantpur police from Salem district in Tamil Nadu.

“I put on stake not just my money, modesty and reputation, but also invested all my friends’ and relatives’ hard-earned money,” Sarika (name changed) told media.

Vadiraj Gowda, a real estate agent by profession and a resident of Subedarpalya in Yeshwantpur, befriended Sarika on Facebook in January 2017. After they grew close, Sarika decided to move in with him. Vadiraj then asked her to introduce him to her friends and relatives interested in buying BDA sites.  Trusting him, Sarika allegedly collected Rs 90 lakh from 45 persons, including her sister. “Immediately after this, he began to avoid me. One day in October, he managed to escape and switched off his phone,” she told police.

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The child may dislike or seem afraid of a particular person and try to avoid spending time alone with them.

 A team of mental health professionals from Bengaluru will be travelling to all 29 state capitals to educate and train over one lakh children, parents and teachers on prevention of child sexual abuse. The project is called ‘Bhayamukth Bharath’. Speaking to media, Ashwini N V, founder-director of Muktha Foundation, which works with child sexual abuse and domestic violence victims, said, “Often, perpetrators closely watch the pattern in which parents drop off their children to school.

If the parent rushes to drop the child and doesn’t even wait around to say goodbye, perpetrators believe that it is these children who are the ‘right targets’. They believe that such parents won’t have time to listen to their children, whom, they believe, need emotional support.”

Parents are not aware of such clues. With the intent to educate them on some of the possible tactics that perpetrators could use, Muktha has launched this nationwide campaign, starting on January 1, 2019. The campaign will focus not only on parents and children, but also on teachers, NGO professionals, members of religious congregations, community members and other stakeholders too. “This is like a war on child sexual abuse,” Ashwini added.

Another professional, who is part of Muktha’s initative, said, “Instead of being ashamed of sexual abuse, we will tell people to speak out and seek the police’s help.”

A 54-year-old man has been charged with hate crime for assaulting an Indian-origin woman on a subway and hurling homophobic slurs at her.

Allasheed Allah from Manhattan’s East Harlem neighbourhood was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment against 20-year-old Avneet Kaur during the November 30 attack in New York City’s Queens borough, the police said.

Allah is also accused of hurling homophobic slurs at the woman before physically attacking her and leaving her with a fractured spine, NBC News reported on Friday. He faces up to 15 years in prison for the attack and will return to court on December 27.

During the incident, Allah allegedly approached the victim, who was standing with another woman, while they were riding a Manhattan-bound E train through Queens during evening rush hour.

Kaur said her friend gave her a kiss on the cheek while she was making a Snapchat. This, according to the police, made Allah angry and he flew into a rage at the sight.

The man then engaged Kaur in a verbal dispute. Threatening the women, Allah said: “Don’t do that gay s**t in front of me! Do that one more time and watch what happens!” 

The women tried to walk away, but Allah followed them. He approached Kaur from behind and punched her in the back of her head, causing her to fall to the ground and strike her head and neck on a pole before hitting the floor, the police said.

The victim was rushed to a hospital with a fractured spine.

The police, who had publicised a photo and video of the suspect earlier this week, said a tip from the public helped them apprehend Allah, who allegedly fled the scene of the crime.

“Queens County is the most diverse county in the nation. It is home to many races, nationalities and sexual orientations. Crimes motivated by bias – particularly those involving violence – will never be tolerated in this county,” said Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown in a statement. 

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 A 22-year-old Dubai-based Indian student and musician has been found dead in his apartment in Al Garhoud area, the police said.

Himanshu Sharma, who was found dead on Wednesday, was a final year architecture student at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)in Dubai. He was a guitarist in local band Metal Head and had played in bands like Slaves of Conspiracy and Nutmeg, the Khaleej Times reported on Thursday.

In a statement to the daily, a MAHE spokesperson said: “The university has been informed by the police of the tragic death of Himanshu Sharma… It’s a moment of shock for all of us at the university. We are awaiting further information on the same.”

Long-haired and sporting a beard, Sharma — known as Shaggy to his friends — was described by them as a hardcore rock artist with a kind heart.

Speaking about his friend, fellow rock artist Gaurav Manna said that Sharma was well loved in Dubai by everyone, “not just those in the metal scene”.

Another friend, Vinod Verma, said: “He had great talent and immense potential both as a musician and architecture student. I am very saddened by this news.”

Police officials sent Sharma’s body to the forensic medicine department and the report showed no irregularity in the guitarist’s death, the report said.

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 An Indian Navy ship deployed for anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, made a second arms seizure in six days from a fishing vessel off the coast of Somalia, a defence official said here on Friday.

On Thursday, offshore patrol vessel INS Sunayna spotted a suspicious fishing vessel around 20 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia in the Horn of Africa.

Indian Navy personnel boarded the ship and seized an arms cache of five rifles, including an AK-47, and 471 rounds of ammunition.

After interrogating the crew for piracy-related activities, the fishing vessel was released, said Navy spokesperson Capt D.K. Sharma.

Last Saturday, INS Sunayna had similarly investigated another suspicious fishing vessel around 25 km off the coast of Somalia near Socotra Island and seized four high calibre AK-47s, one light machine gun and ammunition for these weapons. 

The previous month, too, INS Sunayna had seized weapons and ammunition from a fishing vessel in the vicinity.

The arms and ammunition were seized under the authority accorded by UNSCR 2383 (2017), said Capt Sharma.

INS Sunayna has been deployed for anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden since October this year and is part of the Indian Navy’s efforts to ensure safe seas for Indian and international seafarers in the Indian Ocean region.

Global efforts to combat piracy in the east coast of Somalia and Gulf of Aden involves the participation of several countries including India, China, Japan, USA, Russia, Pakistan and European Union nations.

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  Jammu and Kashmir on Friday became the first state to have a law explicitly banning sexual exploitation of woman by those in positions of authority, having a fiduciary relationship or by a public servant.

The State Administrative Council (SAC) headed by Governor Satya Pal Malik approved the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2018, and the Jammu and Kashmir Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018.

“The Bill seeks to amend the state Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) whereby specific offence under Section 354E is being inserted to provide for the offence of ‘Sextortion’.

“Amendments are being made in Sections 154, 161 and Schedule of Criminal Procedure Code and Section 53A of the Evidence Act so as to bring sextortion at par with similar offences prescribed under the RPC.

“Amendment is being made in Prevention of Corruption Act to amend the definition of misconduct and to provide that demand for sexual favours would also constitute misconduct within the meaning of Section 5,” an official statement said.

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By : Parmesh S Jain

“Unsteady racks collapse resulting in injuries and death “.
Trapped workers rescued 3 dead in the tragedy. 
Three labourers were killed and five others working in a warehouse of a private firm sustained injuries after goods boxes and plastic crates fell on them the incident took place around 12.30pm at the warehouse of Holisol Logistic Pvt Ltd.
A massive rescue operation was carried out by NDRF,Fire personnel with rescue dogs and even cameras were used in rescue operation by NDRF team. 
The deceased have been identified as Farooq (22), Subash (26) and Jnana Darshan (25) both residents of Orrissa.
The accused has been identified as Business head  of the company,Ajay and site in charge Amanullah was arrested for the negligency and cause of three labourers death. 
The three labourers who lost their lives in the accident are Farook, Subhash, Gnanadarshan. Ramakanth was rescued by fire men while Kuldeep, Janaki Ram, Narayanaswamy and Bahubali were injured in the collapse.
The incident happened in Holisol Logistics warehouse when over 10 people were working inside. As the racks collapsed, passers-by rushed to the rushed to the warehouse and rescued four labourers immediately, while two others were pulled out later. The remaining workers were trapped under the racks and heavy boxes and rescue operation is still underway.
The metal racks were reportedly stacked with several boxes weighing over 50kg each and the excess weight may have caused one of the racks to topple, which then set off a domino effect. 

An eyewitness told media persons that,around 12 noon we saw ambulances leaving from here 4 people were sent in 4 different ambulances.The Godown is 40 feet high and were not securely bolted each goods package weighed around 50 kgs the weight was too much and the racks toppled he added. 

Narayanswamy,rescued labour said,I was checking the goods when I felt the rack swaying and then it collapsed there were 15-20 workers there was no safety at all.The steps were held  together by small bolts the bolts could not take the weight and gave way he added.

Abdul Ahad,DCP,Whitefiled told,Today in the afternoon at around 12:30 pm in kadugodi police station limits in a company by name Holisol Logistics a Delhi based company a tragedy took place in which 3 labourers died as the racks collapsed in the warehouse as godown here they have kept the stock of their racks due to no supportive to the racks as there were no securely bolted as each goods package weighed around 50kgs the weight was too much and the racks collapsed in which three labourers were died and five others secured and are undergoing treatment and one person was rescued immediately with the help of Fire force and NDRF and local police and

public a labourer who was trapped in the racks was rescued and we have arrested two main persons of the company one is Business head identifed as Ajay and Another person is Amanullah who is a site Incharge of the company they both has been arrested for negligency act and other various IPC sections.Kadugodi police has filed a case of negligence against the warehouse owner and further investigation is on he added.

  A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year.

Prabhu Ramamoorthy, living in the US on a temporary work visa, was accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman seated by the window next to him while his wife was on his other side on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on January 3.

He will be deported back to India after he serves his sentence, a federal court in Detroit said on Thursday as it sentenced him to nine years of imprisonment, Detroit Free Press reported. He will never be allowed back into the US.

Prosecutors said Ramamoorthy “committed one of the most brazen airplane sexual assaults ever prosecuted in this district” when he knowingly took advantage of a sleeping, intoxicated woman who could not fight back.

The prosecution had originally sought a 11-year jail term but US District Judge Terrence Berg concluded that nine years was sufficient for what he described as “an extremely serious offence”.

Ramamoorthy was held without bail after appearing in the federal court after prosecutors argued there was a risk he could abscond.

According to court records, the 22-year-old victim had told investigators that she was sleeping in the seat next to Ramamoorthy on the flight when she was jolted awake and found the fellow passenger shoving his fingers inside her pants and “vigorously moving them”. She said her shirt was also unbuttoned. 

Federal prosecutor Amanda Jawad said Ramamoorthy stopped after the victim opened her eyes and then the shaken woman immediately alerted flight attendants. She was then given a different seat and the man was arrested after the plane landed.

When the accusations against Ramamoorthy surfaced, he had denied them. He told the police he could not have committed the crime because he was asleep. His wife had claimed that the woman had been sleeping on her husband’s knees.

According to officials, Ramamoorthy later altered his story and told an FBI agent that he might have unclasped the sleeping woman’s bra “while playing with it”. 

The court filing stated that Ramamoorthy also admitted that he “unzipped the woman’s pants part-way and put his finger inside”. He was convicted by a jury in August following a five-day trial.

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A video footage being aired by a TV channel showing a teacher sexually exploiting a minor girl student inside a private educational institution in the taluk has gone viral on social sites.

In the video, a young girl is seen entering a room followed by the teacher in question. Thereafter, the teacher is shown embracing the girl and fondling her. This is followed by both of them setting their clothes before exiting the room.

Halamurthy who is the circle inspector has said that the Department has noticed the news transmission by the TV channel. Neither the girl nor her parents have filed any complaint. If they are reluctant, a Suo Moto case will have to be registered by the department, he said.

According to police information the teacher in question is from Belthangady. It is suspected that some people, who were aware about the behaviour of the teacher and hence must have planted the cellphone inside the room for recording the proof and then providing it to the said TV channel.

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