Mangaluru, June 21: A 19-year-old girl who came from Kushtagi in North Karnataka for labour work was raped by a person working as a labourer at Paldane in the taluk. The incident came to light when the girl conceived. Now, the Mangaluru rural police arrested the accused Rama alias Dasaiah (38) on Thursday.

The accused was also a resident of Kushtagi and for the last few years, he has been working as a labourer. The family of the girl which came to the city two years ago is also residing at Paldane.

It is alleged that taking advantage of closeness of the girl, Dasaiah raped her and when she conceived, her family members noticed it and lodged a complaint against Dasaiah in Mangaluru rural police station. The police who arrested the accused produced him before the court.



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Yadgir: In a shocking incident reported from Devathkal village of Surapur taluk, two boys, Shreyanna (8) and Yuvaraja (9), who were grazing cattle, died of drowning on Sunday afternoon as they went for a bath in a stream nearby.

The boys had reportedly gone missing in the waters of the stream on Sunday afternoon. The family members found the boys’ clothes on the banks of the stream but, as their search for the boys proved futile, they brought the matter to the notice of the police and fire brigade.

The police team, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Javed Inamdar and Inspector Anand Wagmode, along with the staff members of the fire brigade, searched for the missing boys on Sunday night, but failed to find the boys. The search was resumed on Monday morning and, at around 9 am on Monday, the bodies of both boys were found in the stream, sources have said.

A case has been filed by the Surapur Police and investigation is underway.