Udupi: Hindutva activist Pradeep Poojari arrested again in rape case after bail release
Udupi: Police from the Udupi Women’s Police Station have arrested a Hindu Jagarana Vedike activist in connection with a rape case involving a young woman who was assaulted in an isolated area.
The accused has been identified as Pradeep Poojary (26), a member of the Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s Nayarkodu unit in Perdur. He had allegedly been harassing a woman to marry him, and after she refused, she filed a complaint at the Hiriyadka Police Station. He was arrested earlier in this connection but was later released on bail.
According to the complaint, fuelled by the same hostility, on November 29, Pradeep intercepted the woman while she was walking through an isolated location and again pressured her to marry him. When she refused, he allegedly strangled her in a threatening manner and committed rape.
The woman informed her family, who subsequently filed a complaint with the Udupi Women’s Police Station. Police registered the case, arrested the accused, and produced him before the court. The court has remanded him to judicial custody.
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Yadgir: Six people burnt alive in private bus-car collision on Bidar-Bengaluru Highway in Surapura
Surapura: In a tragic road accident reported from the taluk, six people were burnt alive in a collision between a private bus and a car on the Bidar-Bengaluru Highway near the Shanthapura Cross close to the Thinthani Bridge on Friday morning.
A fire broke out due to the force of the collision, and both vehicles were gutted in the flames.
The bus is learned to have been traveling from Lingasugur to Kalaburagi, and the car was going towards Lingasugur. While none of the passengers in the bus was reportedly endangered in the accident, all six people traveling the car died in the accident and are learned to have burnt in the fire.
The local fire brigade has successfully doused the flames.
Inspector Umesh M and team of the Surapura Police Station is learned to have arrived at the accident spot and conducted an inspection.
The skulls of four people are said to have been found among the debris.
