Polali Candle Santhu murder case: Life term for two accused
Mangaluru, July 20: The fourth additional principal district and sessions court on Friday convicted two accused for life imprisonment and slapped a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on charges of murdering Candle Santu alias Santosh of Polali Badakabailu.
The convicted are identified as Iqbal (39) of Bandaru and Farooq (30) of Kukkundoor Bangle Gudde in Karkala taluk. Out of Rs 2 lakh penalty, Rs 1.8 lakh should be given to the family of Santhosh and Rs 20,000 should be remitted to the government, the court said.
There were total 22 accused in the case and 13 accused were acquitted from the case, while three accused were absconding and four were died. Convicted Iqbal was the prime accused in the case and Farooq was the sixth accused.
Incident
When Santosh was sitting on a gutter at Badakabailu in Bantwala taluk on February 18 2009 at 9.30 am, the miscreants who came in a car and motorbike attacked him with lethal weapons. Sensing the danger, Santosh started running to escape from them. But as he had a leg injury in an incident earlier, he could not run fast. He was chased and attacked him brutally. Though the local people rushed him to the hospital, he died in the hospital.
Murder plan prepared in abroad
Being in abroad, Madoor Isubu had planned for the murder of Santosh and given a contract to the accused to kill him. He was killed in the jail at the city in 2015. During the arrest of the accused, Rs 2 lakh supari money was confiscated from them. Another accused Madoor Ismail died of heart attack,while Kukkundoor Sulaiman alias Khader was murdered at Karkala.
Reason for murder?
Santosh was an accused in the murder of Mallur Hamid of Kairangala village in Bantwala taluk on April 9, 2006 and Rafeeq of Gurupura Kaikamba on December 23, 2000. To take revenge against these murders, Madoor Isubu had planned to kill Santosh.
Taking it for hearing, judge Nerale Veerabhadraiah Bhavani got the statements of 25 witnesses heard the arguments and delivered the judgement. Then Bantwala rural inspector Nanjunde Gowda filed the charge sheet to the court. Public prosecutor Harishchandra Udyavara argued against the accused.
Meanwhile, SP Ravikanthe Gowda had appreciated the efforts of the Bantwala rural inspector Nanjunde Gowda and police personnel and announced a prize.
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Man accused of rape-murder of 5-year-old lynched to death in Bengal; Girl’s body found in pond
Alipurduar: A 40-year-old man accused of raping and murdering a five-year-old girl was allegedly tied to a tree and beaten to death by agitated locals in Alipurduar district located in West Bengal on Friday evening. Later, another man surrendered before the police claiming he was also involved in the crime, and was subsequently arrested.
The girl went missing on Friday evening. When her family began searching for the girl, they learned that she had last been seen with Mona Roy, as reported by the Indian Express.
The police said that the girl’s body was found floating in a local pond. They added that the locals caught Roy and took him to his residence where they allegedly noticed blood on the bed. Enraged by this, they tied Roy to a tree and started assaulting him.
Roy was beaten to death before the local police could reach the spot.
When the police arrived at the scene, angry locals prevented them from moving the two bodies. Eventually, a large team of police personnel was sent to the location. After two hours, they were able to remove the bodies from the area.
The bodies have been sent for a post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, a man named Bhakta Roy approached the police, claiming that he was involved in the crime and feared for his safety from the angry mob. He was subsequently arrested.
Y. Raghuvanshi, Superintendent of Police, Alipurduar, asserted it is a heinous crime, adding that they have started a detailed investigation in connection to the incident.
