Sexual assault on minor boy: Pilatabettu resident held under POCSO Act
Bantwal: The Punjalkatte police arrested a person on the charges of sexually assaulting a minor boy and threatening to kill him, in the limits of Punjalkatte police station on Sunday.
The arrested has been identified as Ramanand Shenoy of Nayanadu in Pilatabettu in Bantwal taluk.
According to the complaint given at the police station, the victim visited Ramanand's cycle shop to get his bicycle repaired. The accused lured the boy and took him to the former's home and attempted to assault him sexually. However, the boy kicked in the abdomen of the accused and managed to escape. Ramanand chased the boy and threatened him that he would kill the boy if he revealed the incident to anyone.
The Punjalkatte police have registered a case under the POCSO Act and continued the investigation.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
