The 23-year-old engineering student was found hanging from a tree in Raichur on April 15 and protests had broken out with students alleging that she was raped and murdered.

The Criminal Investigation Department probing the death of the 23-year-old engineering student from Raichur has stated that the woman was not raped. According to CID sources, the autopsy performed by Dr Karadi in the Raichur District Hospital states the cause of death to be due to asphyxiation by hanging.

“The post-mortem report also states that the woman was not raped. Her body was not burnt. Since the police discovered the body two days after she had died, it had begun to decompose,” the CID source said.

The engineering student was found hanging from a tree in Raichur on April 15. Local police had initially concluded that it was a case of suicide as they had found a death note next to her body. The death note stated that the victim was taking her own life since she had backlogs in her exams. However, the woman’s friends and family had held massive protests in Raichur alleging that she had not taken her own life but was raped and murdered.

CID sleuths are still investigating whether the woman’s death was a suicide or a murder. The victim’s viscera samples, along with the accused Sudarshan Yadav’s clothes and the death note, have been sent to the Forensic Science Lab. They are currently awaiting the report from the FSL in Bengaluru.

“We suspect it is suicide and we are investigating to find the actual cause. The woman had several backlogs in several subjects in the previous semesters, although she had cleared her fifth-semester backlogs,” the source said.

CID sources say that they have obtained CCTV footage from various places, including a lodge in Mantralaya. “The accused Sudarshan Yadav has an alibi. He was in Mantralaya when the victim died. We have CCTV footage of him entering the lodging facility. Sudarshan had called the woman multiple times and when she did not answer, he assumed she had gone to Mantralaya, as they used to go there when they were together,” the source said.

Investigators say they are trying to find whether the woman died due to the harassment she faced at the hands of Sudarshan Yadav. “Sudarshan was a jealous boyfriend and he used to doubt the victim a lot, which led them to fight often. She had broken off the relationship a few months before she died and yet he would call her almost daily and ask her to get back with him,” the source told media.

The outrage ensuing the woman’s death had resulted in the Netaji Nagar Police arresting victim’s former boyfriend Sudarshan Yadav. When the protests continued, the woman’s parents had demanded a CID probe after which the agency took over the investigation.

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By : Pramesh S Jain

Bengaluru CCB sleuths arrested a woman for allegedly running a flesh trade racket inside her Spa in Koramangala. 
The accused woman identified as,Madhuri.AR,a resident of Koramangala,was running the racket at her Suki Spa Salon and Unisex in Koramangala 5th block.
Senior officer,told media persons that Based on tip off information the Woman’s and Narcotics department wing special squad team headed by DCP Crime,Girish.S,under the supervison of ACP,Smt.Shobha Kattavkar and team raided the Suki Spa and Salon Unisex located in Koramangala 5th block and rescued victims as Woman’s from the flesh trade who were brought from Bengaluru and other states promising them of decent jobs but were forced them to flash trade into prostitution business with this the owner of the Spa was offering the women to her customers under the pretext of ‘Special massage as Body to Body Massage,Happy ending,Sandwich,and Even sexual favors too was offered by this Spa owner and she was using the premises for flesh trade and earned easy money with this our team has rescued Inter-State women’s from the flesh or prostitution racket and were sent back to their hometown and during the raid the cops have raided Rs.3000 cash,Mobile phones used to invite customers in flesh trade with swiping machine with condom packets and other materials has been seized by the team and during the course of investigation it was found that to earn easy money and lead a lavish lifestyle she was running this brothel racket and now landed in police net and is cooling her heels in jail and a case has been registered in Koramangala Police station,under Trafficking Exploitation and prostitution and further investigation is on and finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,has appreciated,Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime),Alok Kumar,DCP,Crime,Girish.S,and his team as,ACP,Smt.Shobha Kattavkar,PI,Narayangowda,PSI, Lakshminarasimaiah, ASI,Smt.K.ShanthaShetty,and staff as,Vinay,Srinivas,and Shashidhar and team for rescuing girls from Flesh trade and arresting the accused he added.

The Pala magistrate court in Kottayam on Friday extended till June 7 the bail of former Jalandhar bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of sexually assaulting a nun between 2014 and 2016.

The court extended the bail where Mulakkal appeared in person. The court has posted the case for June 7.

Mulakkal who was arrested on September 21 last year in Kochi after three consecutive days of interrogation by the state police, is currently out on bail.

The Kerala Police on Tuesday submitted a 1,400-page chargesheet to the court against the bishop.

It names 83 witnesses, including the Cardinal of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Mar George Alencherry, three bishops, 11 priests and several nuns.

The chargesheet was filed almost seven months after his arrest.

The Bishop’s arrest came after a nun complained that she was raped multiple times between 2014-16. The crime had occurred at a convent in Kottayam district.

The police in its remand report to a trial court had stated that Franco Mulakkal came to the convent with the intention of sexually assaulting the victim.

Four nuns had rallied behind the complainant calling for a speedy filing of the chargesheet.

Last month, the protesting nuns submitted a petition at Kottayam SP’s office seeking the speedy filing of the chargesheet.

The demand for the speedy filing of chargesheet came just over a month after the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was urged to ensure their safety by the National Commission for Women (NCW).

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Kalaburagi, May 9 : Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths led by Superintendent of Police V M Jothi raided office of the Sub Registrar here today and seized Rs 60,000 unaccounted money.
Jothi said that some cash was also seized from a car owned by Sub-Registrar A Hasib.
Verification of documents and inquiry of office staff is going on, he added

Metro stations are on high alert after a passenger’s ‘suspicious’ behaviour led to tension at Kempegowda metro station in Majestic on Monday evening.
A man in his 40s, on Monday, entered the Majestic Metro station and passed through the metal detector.As he crossed the detector,the machine beeped,indicating that he was concealing a metal object on his person.When security personnel asked the person to step aside,the man retreated and fled the station.
The incident occurred at Majestic Metro Station at around 7:30 pm on Monday.
Security Hightightened and beeped up at all the metro station across city.All precautionary measures has been taken for the safety of passengers says BMRCL. 
Police are on the lookout for a man who fled the scene when he was asked to undergo a security check at the entrance of Majestic Metro station in Bengaluru.
Security personnel stopped the man,who seemed to be in his forties,when the scanner at the entrance beeped as he passed through it.Suspecting that he was concealing an object on his person, the official asked him to step aside. However, the man refused to comply and fled the station.
A house keeping staff at the metro station informed the investigators that a similar looking person approached her and asked whether she would carry out something if paid she said she has objectected to do it and he went off. 
The incident was also captured on CCTV which was examined by police after the incident was brought to the notice of Ravi D Channannavar,DCP of Bengaluru West. 
According to police,no details on the object or any other particulars are available at the moment.
DCP West,Ravi.D.Channanavar told media persons that there is no need to be panic and said a incident of man fleeing from the spot after the security personnel asked him to show the suspicious object at the security check has been reported at Nadaprabhu kempegowda Majestic Metro station a man who tried to barge in the metro station by jumping was noticed by a security personnel immediately he stopped him and was sent inside while he entered the door frame metal detector and hand held metal detector while frisking the detector started beeping as it was beeping the private security personnel stopped the person and when he went to call his superior the man fled from the spot later the security personnel informed his seniors who examined the CCTV footage and found that a man with suspicious object has fled from the spot but we are not sure what was the object only we will come to know what was the object carried by this person and why he fled the spot after we take him in our custody three special teams has been formed under the supervision of ACP Chickpet Sub-division Mahanth Reddy with other inspectors to trace the suspect and we have intensified and hightightened the security by deploying additional forces at all the Metro Stations,Bus Stands,Railway Stations,Malls and other various places and I myself with Internal security division officers and other officers visited the spot and inspected the area and we appeal the general public that there is no need to be panic as we have taken all precautionary measures and massive manhunt is on for the suspected person a case has been registered in upparpet police station and further investigation is on he added.
Meanwhile, security has been intensified at various spots.An additional police force has been deployed at the stations across Bengaluru.
Police have assured that there is no reason to worry but a hunt is on for the man to ensure that there is no untoward incident. 

The Bombay High Court Wednesday said it cannot grant bail to former media baron Peter Mukerjea, an accused in the killing of his step-daughter Sheena Bora, but directed jail authorities to take him for his post-operation cardiac rehabilitation sessions.

A vacation bench of Justice Riyaz Chagla said it was not inclined to order the release of Mukerjea at the Asian Heart Institute, where he underwent bypass surgery, submitted in a report to a special CBI court last month that he has recovered from the operation.

“I am, however, inclined to grant limited protection to the applicant (Mukerjea). It will be appropriate to permit the applicant to undergo post-operation cardiac rehabilitation sessions and physiotherapy at the Asian Heart Institute,” Justice Chagla said in the order.

“The applicant shall be taken to the hospital under police escort for 26 sessions, as prescribed by the Asian Heart Institute,” the court said.

Mukerjea last week approached the high court, seeking interim bail on medical ground. His lawyer Shrikant Shivade argued that Mukerjea was sent to jail without letting him undergo the post-operative care.

“Without the post-operation cardiac rehabilitation sessions and physiotherapy, he (Mukerjea) will die. Jail is not a proper place to be kept in after undergoing bypass surgery,” he argued on Wednesday.

CBI counsel Ejaz Khan opposed the plea and relied on the Asian Heart Institute’s report, which said Mukerjea was being discharged from the hospital as he had recovered from the surgery.

“The jail authorities shall take him (Mukerjea) to the hospital for the post-operation cardiac sessions. He need not be released on bail for this purpose,” Khan argued.

Mukerjea has been in jail since his arrest in November 2015 for his alleged involvement in the killing of Sheena Bora, his wife Indrani Mukerjea’s daughter from her previous relationship.

According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Bora was killed in April 2012 but the case came to light only in August 2015 when Indrani Mukerjea’s former driver Shyamwar Rai spilt the beans after being arrested in another case.

Indrani Mukerjea’s former husband Sanjeev Khanna and Rai were also arrested in connection with the Sheena Bora killing the case.

However, Rai later turned an approver in the case.

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New Delhi, May 6 : Over 250 FIRs and daily diary (DD) entries were registered against political parties and others here till date for violation of the model code of conduct, officials said Monday.

The statistics surveillance team of Delhi’s Chief Electoral Office, constituted to keep an eye on the expenses of political parties, has seized Rs 4.08 crore in cash and 1412 kg of narcotics and drugs.

“A total of 252 FIRs or DD entries have been lodged till date in connection with violation of the model code of conduct,” the office of the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said in a statement.

“Out of these, 28 are against the Aam Aadmi Party (16 FIRs and 12 DD entries), 36 against the Bharatiya Janata Party (17 FIRs and 19 DD entries), 20 against the Congress (five FIRs and 15 DD entries), two against the Bahujan Samaj Party (two FIRs), the Samajwadi Party (one DD entry), five against the CPI(M) (two FIRs and three DD entries) and 160 (156 FIRs and four DD entries) are against others or non-political (entities),” it said.

The office of the Delhi CEO said over 3.51 lakh posters, banners and hoardings have been removed since March 10, when the poll code came into force.

“As many as 30,533 posters, banners and hoardings were removed from areas under the New Delhi Municipal Council, 43,075 from East Delhi Municipal Corporation areas, 2,411 from Delhi Cantonment Board, 1,58,488 from South Delhi Municipal Corporation, and 1,16,836 from North Delhi Municipal Corporation areas,” the statement said.

Police have registered 1,297 FIRs and arrested 1,293 people under the Excise Act, it said. They have also seized 668 unlicensed arms and weapons, and 2,639 cartridges and explosives.

As many as 1,07,517 people have been booked till date under various sections of the CrPC and the Delhi Police Act.

“Till date, 1,764 bottles, 109 half-sized bottles, 2,14,960 quarter-sized ones of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and 2,080 bottles, 1,916 half-sized and 4,73,029 quarter-sized ones of country liquor and 6,963 bottles of beer have been seized,” the statement said.

Polling for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi will be held in the sixth phase on May 12.

As many as 164 candidates are in the fray in Delhi, where the polls is largely being seen as a triangular contest among the AAP, BJP and the Congress.

Of the over 1.43 crore voters in Delhi, 78,73,022 are male and 64,42,762 female, while 669 belong to the third gender. The number of overseas electors stands at 40 while count of service voters is 11,005.

PTI

Belagavi, May 6 : Crime Branch Special team have nabbed a six member gang for indulging in illegal cricket betting during a raid and seized from them betting money Rs 1.79,000 cash and eight mobile phones.
Police said on Monday that Crime Branch ACP N V Barmani and his team on getting authentic information, last night raided a place under Market police station limits and arrested the culprits who were collecting betting money for IPL match between Kolkata Night Riders and Mumbai Indians.
The arrested were identified as Rahul Rajaram Mannurkar, Abhishek A Patil, Vijay M Dadikar, Javed Iqbal, Ashraf and Thousif.
A case has been registered in Market Police Station.

The Bengaluru police probing the sexual harassment allegations against Chief Operating Officer of ARG Outlier Asianet News, Abhinav Khare, has filed a B report alleging that the charge sheet could not be filed due to lack of evidence.

In October 2017, Abhinav Khare was accused of sexually harassing Sonam Mahajan who had joined as a strategy consultant at Namma Bengaluru Foundation. BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar is the Founder Trustee and Chairman of Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF) and former board member of ARG Outlier Asianet News. The NBF, Asianet and Rajeev’s venture capital firm Jupiter Capital Private Limited work out of the same building in Bengaluru.

Though Sonam had joined the team as a strategy consultant to help Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s political office, she was told that she would be under the payrolls of NBF. Abhinav Khare was the person to whom she was reporting.

A few days later, she complained that Abhinav Khare was harassing her and wanted Rajeev’s office to reassign her to a new team. But instead of a transfer, what followed was a long process of inquiry, rounds of talks and finally a gag order on the woman.

Meanwhile, in June 2018, an ad-hoc committee of three members gave its final report. The report found that most of the allegations made by Sonam were true and Khare should tender a written apology to her.

The police, however say that they interviewed 15 employees of Namma Bengaluru Foundation and Jupiter Capital India Pvt Ltd in connection with the case.

“None of the firm’s employees spoke in favour of the complainant. We interviewed 15 employees who worked with the woman and the accused but not one person’s testimony had anything to back the complainant’s claims. In fact many of them alleged she behaved inappropriately. Some said her performance was not satisfactory and the complaint was vendetta,” the police said. At least one employee has changed her version, after initially supporting Sonam.

The police further claimed that when the FIR was registered, the complainant had informed them that she had screenshots of WhatsApp messages and also a few recorded calls, which she would produce as proof of the sexual harassment that she allegedly faced from Abhinav. However, the police alleged that the complainant did not furnish any of these documents and did not cooperate with the police during the investigation.

However, speaking to media, Sonam denied the police’s claims.

“This is blatantly false. The police contacted me and told me that my husband should give a statement. I informed them that I was not in town and that my husband and I would come down to the station a week later. In between, the police kept sending me messages to appear for questioning. I called DCP Annamalai and he informed me that my husband’s statement is not required and only my statement is needed. Besides, I had told the police that I did not have any screenshots. I don’t know why they are making such claims. The entire investigation is one-sided and I am going to move the court against the B report,” the complainant said.

The woman has also filed a complaint against the Basavanagudi Women’s Police with DCP Annamalai, stating that the investigation was not conducted properly. “DCP Annamalai told me that the B report has already been filed and the next step is to challenge it in the court. That’s the only thing I can do now, which I will,” she added.

Abhinav Khare in a statement called the woman an extortionist. “In the last 18 months she has changed her lie 4 times from “borderline harassment” to “Verbal harassment” to “sexual assault” and now back to “verbal harassment”. Despite 18 months long smear campaign and media trial by her, not a single witness or evidence had corroborated her lies. If I’m a serial offender as she falsely claims, I challenge her openly through your media to produce any “complainant/past victim” against me. On the other hand, multiple victims of her extortion have come forward. I’m relieved that Police after extensive investigation of 6 months and recording statements from dozens of witnesses have submitted a B-report. I was treated as criminal even without an iota of evidence that could be produced by Mrs. Mahajan. I’m still trying to recover from the pain, humiliation, character assassination that she had done with the help of some media platforms. I’d like to thank my present and past female colleagues for their support in my fight.”

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Bengaluru, May 3 : The city police have arrested two persons including a journalist, who allegedly posted fake news referring to the chief minister H D Kumaraswamy’s resort stay in Udupi district during this week.
According to official sources the police arrested Gangadhar and Ajith Shetty, for posting fake news purporting that Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy was enjoying his time in the posh beach resort.
The duo were arrested for posting fake news with an intention to belittle the image of the Chief minister, the police sources said.
The fake news with a photo of the Chief minister had been posted to a website and uploaded in a social media, which went viral, the sources said.