Malabar Group's social service is a model to emulate: Minister Khader
Malabar Housing Charity distributes cheques to homeless people
Mangaluru, November 30: Hailing the social concerns of Malabar Gold and Diamonds, Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader said that Malabar Group has helped hundreds of destitute people which is a model work to emulate.
Speaking as a chief guest at a cheques distribution programme for the homeless people under the Malabar CSR Housing Charity at the Malabar Gold and Diamonds auditorium at Falnir here on Friday, the Minister said that social service was real patriotism. Only elected representatives could not do anything to strengthen the country. Instead, everyone should participate in this process. Strong country could be possible only when every individual would live self-reliantly and the Malabar Gold has been working to supplement it, he said.
Every person would like to have his own house before he dies and it would be his dream. Interestingly, Malabar Gold was fulfilling that dream irrespective of castes, creeds and religions. It was a worth work to emulate in the society. The company has done a good work, he said.
MLA Vedavyas Kamath said that the Malabar Group, established in Calicut in 1993, has social concern along with its business acumen. In the last two decades, the Malabar Group, under its CSR activities, has been supplying medicines free of cost under Medical Charity, financial assistance to construct houses under Housing charity, empowering women under Empowerment Women-hood, scholarships, environmental conservations and other social activities and investing 5 per cent of its profit, he said.
Introducing the Medical Charity in 1999, it has distributed free medicines worth Rs 31 crore to more than six lakh patients. Under Malabar Housing Charity, instituted in 2004, it has given Rs 39 crore to construct 14,034 houses for the poor. Of which, in Mangaluru branch, the company has given Rs 1,06,56,793 to 220 beneficiaries, he said.
Zilla Panchayat president Meenakshi Shantigodu said that through Empowering Women-hood programme, it has provided Rs 4,03,07,250 scholarships to 19,326 girl students for higher education, of which, Rs 1,00,86,000 was given to 5343 students from Karnataka, she added.
As part of the environmental conservation, it has been conducting ‘Clean Mangaluru’ programme in association with the city corporation. Till date, the Malabar Group has invested Rs 81,22,02,934 for CSR activities and in this amount, Rs 1,42,99,775 was invested by the Mangaluru branch, she said.
Under the ‘Home for the Homeless’ scheme, financial assistance cheques were distributed to 45 beneficiaries on the occasion. City Corporation standing committee president Praveen Chandra Alva, ZP member Shahul Hameed, Malabar Gold and Diamonds director Karunakaran, Mangaluru store head Sarathchandran, Udupi store head Hafeez Rehman and others were present.
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
