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Man hangs self after killing daughter

Kundapur: In a heart-wrenching incident a 41-year-old man allegedly committed suicide along with his 8-year-old daughter on Tuesday, November 11.

The dead were identified as Shashidhar Upadhyaya and his daughter Bhargavi who were residing at Saraswati Colony in Doddamane.

The police who visited the spot traced a death note stating marital problems and family dispute had prompted him to take the extreme step.

Sources claimed that Shashidhar was depressed after his wife left him for another man a year ago. Kundapur police have registered a case.

Amasebail elopement case : Bid to set fire to man’s house

Kundapur : Unidentified persons on Tuesday, November 11, attempted to set fire to the house of the man from Amasebail who had eloped with a married lady belonging to another community on Saturday, November 8 and later traced in Bengaluru on Sunday, November 9. The elopement incident had sparked widespread protests in Amasebail.

According to the family members the incident occurred in the wee hours (4 a.m) of Tuesday and four people had set fire to one of the room.

As the man’s father was staying in his relative’s house and his mother was admitted in a hospital at Kundapur nobody was at home.

The fire was discovered by few men who were on their way to the mosque for prayers.
Fire brigade personnel who rushed to the spot doused the fire.

Police have started their investigations, a team of finger print experts too are expected to arrive at the house shortly.

The married lady who had eloped with a man on Saturday, November 8 was traced in Bengaluru on Sunday, November 9 by the Amasebail police. The lady was produced before the court and later handed over to her parents.

According to the police, the Bolero car of the man was found abandoned at Bhatkal, while the phones of the couple which was in use til Bhatkal was switched off later. The police who initially claimed that they had found the couple in Karwar later stated that they had traced them in Devanahalli of Bengaluru.

When the lady said that she would neither go back to her husband nor to her lover, the police decided to produce her before the court. Here, she was later handed over to her parents.

Since the lady’s husband had not filed any case against the man with whom his wife had eloped, no complaint stands registered.

While the whereabouts of the man is not known, the lady is staying with her aunt.

Five including four children injured  as car falls in gorge 

Uppinangady : A man and his four children suffered minor injuries when the car they were travelling went off the road and fell into a ditch situated near, hit a tree before turning turtle near Subrahmanya cross gate in Uppinangady Kasaba on Tuesday, November 11.

The injured is Abdul Latheef (45), resident of Uppinangady.

The accident occurred when Abdul Latheef tried to avert a head-on collision with a lorry coming from the opposite direction.

Abdul Latheef lost control and fell into a ditch and hit a tree before turning turtle.

Abdul Latheef and his four children were admitted to the local hospital with minor injuries.
Puttur traffic police are conducting investigations.

Dowry case: Karkala court acquits accused

Karkala : The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Court in Karkala has acquitted the accused in a dowry harassment case on Tuesday, November 11.

Vijay Kotian, a resident of Shirva, entered wedlock with a woman hailing from Nitte, Karkala on February 26, 2001. She had alleged that her in-laws along with her husband had demanded Rs two lac from her parents.

In the complaint, the woman had stated that Vijay was constantly harassing her for more money and her in-laws had sent her back to her maternal house.

Karkala’s then circle-inspector T R Puttaswamy Gowda had filed a charge-sheet against Vijay, mother-in-law Kampa Bai and brothers-in-law Naveen Kotian and Nityanand Kotian. Meanwhile, the court had rejected woman’s plea stating to add her sister-in-law’s name in the charge-sheet.

The court headed by Karkala magistrate Ramesh Appasaaba now acquitted all the accused for the lack of concrete evidence against them.

Advocate Ravikiran Murudeshwar was the defense lawyer in the case.

Special Courts to deal with offences under POCSO Act

Mangaluru : Special Courts will be setup in all districts of Karnataka to deal with cases under  POCSO Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act). Two Fast Track Courts are already rendering such service in Bengaluru, informed State Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights T B Jayachandra.

Divulging details about the statistics on POCSO Act to presspersons on Tuesday, November 11 at the Mangaluru branch of Congress party office, he said as many as 1,286 cases being registered, 281 cases were disposed and over a 1,000 cases are still pending. The cases under POCSO Act will be solved within a year, however several cases have been pending from the past two years. “Witnesses turning hostile is the main reason for all the cases to be stacked,” he added further.

Around 400 cases were registered from Bengaluru alone.  A total of 59 cases have been reported from Dakshina Kannada.

“The Central Government has made IPC Section 376 (Punishment for rape) more rigid after the Nirbhaya Case two years ago,” he said.

Also, the Supreme Court has ruled that rape victims’ statement to be directly recorded by a judicial magistrate instead of police officials to cut short protracted proceedings.

About creating awareness among the public especially youth, he said that the Information Department was already directed to telecast advertisements against child and other sexual harassments on television.

Ban on tobacco

Responding to queries on ban on tobacco the Minister said, “The case is in Supreme Court. We have appointed a special Public Prosecutor. We are awaiting the verdict. However, the farmers need not worry. We will ensure that remedial measures are taken if the verdict does not come in their favour.”
He said Karnataka was a major provider of tobacco with Dakshina Kannada district alone accounting to about 40 per cent of the produce to the state and the State Government is doing its best to protest the interest of the farmers.

With regards to questions on illegal sand mining and issues with the Endowment Department, Jayachandra said that he will come back to Mangaluru again to discuss the issue in detail with the functionaries concerned.