Fleecing: 7 persons including home-stay attack accused held
Udupi, July 06: The local police who traced a gang of youth fleecing the people including migrating labourers of cash and ornaments during night, arrested seven persons including a main accused in Mangaluru homestay attack, on Friday.
The arrested are identified as Sreyas alias Sachchu of Kalyanpura, the main accused in the home-stay attack case, Abhijith, Vignesh, Sampath, Manish Kumar, Shashank and Nikhil Shetty. Abhishek and Harshit were absconding. All of them were between 19 and 21 years of age. Among them, Nikhil Shetty is a student, police said.
The accused were targeting the migrating labourers and locals in Udupi, Manipal, Mangaluru and surrounding areas and looting the money and other valuables after attacking them. But no one has complained against such incidents. As they were striking the victims during night time, the police were unable to trace the accused even with the help of CCTV footage. A few months back, the accused made away with cash and valuables at city bus stand. But there also, the police failed to trace the accused.
On June 16, the accused assaulted a local person at Kalyanpura shandy market and fled the scene after snatching the mobile phone. Based on a complaint regarding this, the police started investigating and identified one person. When the police interrogated him, he spilled the beans and police arrested three in Bengaluru and three in Mangaluru. The police have been searching for another two accused who were absconding. All the arrested were produced before the court which remanded them to judicial custody. They were facing many cases in Mangaluru city, Udupi and Manipal police stations, police sources said.
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MP: Woman, lover conspire to get husband killed; police looking for contract killer
Dhar (MP) (PTI): A 25-year-old woman and her lover have been arrested in the district for allegedly conspiring to kill her husband by hiring a contract killer, police said on Thursday.
The case was solved within 36 hours of the murder though the woman initially tried to mislead the police by claiming that robbers killed her husband, an official said.
Dev Krishna Purohit (28) was stabbed to death on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday at his house in Gondikheda Charan village, about 60 km from here.
Superintendent of Police Mayank Awasthi told reporters that accused Priyanka Purohit (25) was married to Dev Krishna when she was around 15 years old. Priyanka moved to her matrimonial home after attaining adulthood but was unwilling to live with her husband, leading to frequent disputes between them.
During investigation, it emerged that she was in a relationship with Kamlesh (32), the SP said.
The duo allegedly hatched a plan to kill Dev Krishna and hired a man identified as Surendra for Rs 1 lakh do the job, he said
After Dev Krishna was killed, Priyanka told police that unidentified persons broke into the house, attacked her husband with a sharp weapon while holding her captive in another room, and fled with valuables.
But the inconsistencies in her statements raised suspicion, and eventually she confessed to hatching the murder conspiracy, the SP said.
While she and Kamlesh were arrested, police are looking for the contract killer, the official added.
