Remand prisoner escapes police custody near Kerala's Viyyur jail
Thrissur (Kerala) (PTI): A remand prisoner from Tamil Nadu escaped from police custody while being transported back to Viyyur central jail here, police said on Tuesday.
The escaped prisoner was identified as Balamurugan, son of Madaswamy, who was involved in various criminal cases in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
According to central prisoner authorities here, the incident took place on Monday night when the Tamil Nadu police were escorting him back to the jail here after attending a court hearing in the neighbouring state in connection with a case.
"The incident had not happened inside the prison but some one and a half kilometres away from the jail premises. Tamil Nadu police personnel were escorting him," a jail official said.
Balamurugan was a notorious criminal and an accused in at least 16 cases in Tamil Nadu alone, he added.
An intense search is on to catch the fugitive, police added.
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Madhya Pradesh: BJP leader assaults blind woman in Church
Jabalpur: Anju Bhargava, vice-president of BJP's Jabalpur city unit, has come under sharp scrutiny, creating the ripples of political controvery in Madhya Pradesh, after a video surfaced online showing her physically assaulting a visually impaired woman inside a church.
The New Indian Express has reported that the said incident reportedly took place on Saturday (20 Dec) at a church in the Hawa Bagh area, which comes under the limits of Gorakhpur police station.
The video footage that has circulated widely on Monday shows Anju Bhargava, assaulting the blind woman in the presence of a police officer. In the video, Bhargava is seen shouting at the woman, twisting her arm and forcibly grabbing her face. The victim can be heard pleading to Bhargava to speak to her rather than resorting to physical violence. Also, we can hear Bhargava screaming, “will be blind in her next birth too”
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According to The Indian Express reports, Bhargava entered the church, with members of several Hindutva affiliated organisations, alleging that the visually impaired children were being forced into religious conversion; But, the students present at the church have flatly denied all the allegations.
An unnamed police officer cited in media reports states that there was no evidence to support claims of forced religious conversion. The incident has since intensified political debate in the state, with opposition parties demanding accountability and action against those involved.
