Manjeshwar MLA Abdul Razak Passes away
Manjeshwar, Oct 20: P.B.Abdul Razak , second term MLA from Manjeshwar Constituency has passed away on Saturday early morning at a private hospital in Kasargod. He was aged 62. He is said to have suffering from a ailment related to lungs from sometime.
A resident of Kasargod , P.B.Abdul Razak first successfully contested assembly elections from Manjeshwar in 2011 on a Indian Union Muslim League ticket. He defeated the then MLA C.H. Kunhambu of CPM. In 2016 he was re-elected from the same constituency.
He has earlier served as the standing committee chairman of Kasargod Zilla Panchayat.
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Kerala: Court imposes 41-year jail term on man for sexual assault of minor
Kozhikode (Kerala) (PTI): A Kerala court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 41 years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor boy near Valayam in 2021.
Nadapuram Fast Track Special Court judge K Naushad Ali sentenced 64-year-old Panchara Musa, also known as Ganapathiyat Musa, under various provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), according to special public prosecutor Manoj Aroor.
As the sentences are to run concurrently, the convict will have to serve the highest term of 20 years’ imprisonment, SPP Aroor said. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 52,000 on Musa.
The incident took place in August 2021 when the accused allegedly took the 14-year-old boy to a bus stop in Valayam town and sexually assaulted him, the prosecutor said. The accused also gave Rs 50 to the boy, he added.
Following the incident, the boy and his father lodged a complaint at the Valayam police station.
A case under various provisions of the POCSO Act and the IPC was registered, and the accused was subsequently arrested, the SPP said.
The prosecution examined 16 witnesses and submitted 16 documents to substantiate its case against the accused, he added.
