Mangaluru: Man convicted for raping daughter
Mangaluru, Dec 14: A court here has convicted a 36- year-old man for raping his minor daughter and impregnating her in 2016.
It however reserved its orders on the quantum of sentence.
The judge B R Pallavi in a verdict delivered on Friday December 13, found that the charges of rape under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 506 (death threat) and sections 5 and 6 of POCSO Act relating to repeated sexual atrocity have been proved.
Kishore Bhayya from north India, who currently lives in the city has been accused of raping his 13-year-old daughter several times.
When his wife was admitted to a hospital for delivery in 2016, Kishore Bhayya had cajoled his daughter into having sex with him and then raped her.
He had also posed a threat to kill her and the girl reportedly remained silent on the issue.
Thereafter he raped her several times, as a result of which the girl became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl.
Later, the harassed girl's mother filed a complaint at the women's police station here against her husband.
As many as 12 witnesses and 24 documentary evidences were taken on record before passing judgement.
The DNA test of the baby proved that Kishore Bhayya was the biological father.
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Low visibility prevents PM’s helicopter from landing in Taherpur, Modi returns to Kolkata airport
Kolkata (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter failed to land at the Taherpur helipad in West Bengal owing to low visibility on account of dense fog in the area on Saturday, an official said.
The PM’s chopper made a U-turn after hovering over the helipad ground for a while and returned to the Kolkata airport, he said.
Till reports last received, the Prime Minister was waiting at the airport for further updates on the weather situation.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Modi would reach the rally venue district by road or whether he would wait for the weather to clear up and make another attempt to reach Taherpur by the aerial route, the official said.
Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister reached Kolkata at around 10.40 am and took a chopper onward to Taherpur in Nadia district, where he is scheduled to hold an administrative programme to launch highway projects in West Bengal, followed by a political rally of the BJP, titled Parivartan Sankalpa Sabha, which he is supposed to address.
