Tiger dancer in Puttur killed with lethal weapons after clash over trivial issue
police arrest three
Puttur: The local police have arrested three men for the murder of a young man who was a member of the Kallega tiger dance group, Akshay Kallega, using lethal weapons in Nehru Nagar on the outskirts of the town late Monday night, after a fight between them over a trivial issue a few hours before.
The men are learned to have called Akshay to Nehru Nagar late at night allegedly to discuss matters related to a road accident that took place on Monday evening. The youngster was called especially for a calculation of the shares in the loss incurred due to the accident, but was attacked with lethal weapons and killed by the men, when he reached the place.
Akshay's body was found among the weeds in the paddy fields beside the highway near the road leading to Vivekananda College in Puttur.
Police sources, which confirmed that three men had attacked and killed Akshay, said that two of the suspects, Manish and Chethu, surrendered to the police a few hours after the incident. A third suspect, Manjunath alias Manja, who had been absconding after the act, was arrested on Tuesday morning.
This is the second such murder case witnessed by Puttur town in the last couple of months. In the last week of August, a young woman was stabbed to death by her lover outside the Puttur Women Police Station. Four years ago too, Karthik Merla, Secretary of the Hindu Jagaran Vedike, had been stabbed to death late at night behind the Puttur Rural Police Station.
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2019 mud attack on engineer: Maharashtra court sentences BJP minister Nitesh Rane to one-month jail
Mumbai (PTI): A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands.
Later, the court suspended Rane's sentence, allowing him time to appeal before a higher court, while acquitting 29 other accused in the case.
"Even though Rane's intention was to raise a voice against the poor quality of work and inconvenience faced by the people, he was not supposed to humiliate or insult a public servant in public," additional sessions court judge V S Deshmukh stated.
"If such incidents continue to occur, public servants would not be able to discharge their duties with dignity," the judge noted.
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Calling the act "abuse of power", the court held that "it is the demand of time to curb such tendency".
Rane, a son of former Union minister Narayan Rane, was among 30 people charged under various offences, including rioting, assault to deter a public servant, and criminal conspiracy. He was in Congress when the incident occurred.
All the accused, including Nitesh Rane, were acquitted of these offences, as the court found insufficient evidence to support most of these claims.
However, the court found Nitesh Rane guilty of an offence under section 504 (intentional insult meant to provoke a breach of public peace) and sentenced him to one month's jail.
Rane, then a Congress MLA, had called the Sub-Divisional Engineer of the National Highway Authority, Prakash Shedekar, to a bridge over the Gad river in Kankavli on July 4, 2019, for inspecting the work to widen the Mumbai-Goa Highway.
According to the prosecution, Nitesh Rane and his followers, frustrated by the poor quality of the roadwork and waterlogging, confronted the engineer. They poured muddy water on Shedekar and forced him to walk through slush in public.
The court, after perusing the evidence on record, noted that the informant (victim) was holding a high post in the National Highway Authority.
"Despite that, he was made to walk through the muddy water in public. It would have certainly humiliated and insulted him," the court remarked.
The judge held that Rane compelling Shedekar to walk through the muddy water "was nothing but an intentional insult to the informant," and provocation which will cause him to break the public peace.
