Karkala, July 17: Karkala police arrested an accused who killed a single woman Florine Machado of Ayyappa Nagar in Kukkundur village, by slitting her throat, at Panvel railway station in Mumbai.

The arrested accused is identified as Mohammed Riyaz (33) of Hosmaru of Edu village in the taluk.  

About the incident

Riyaz was in Dubai working in an agency providing passport and visa service. Five years back, he was introduced to Florine Machado over Facebook. They became friends later and involved in monetary transaction. In the beginning, Florine had borrowed some money from Riyaz and later, it was repaid. Now, she owed Rs 13 lakh to Riyaz. After getting money from Riyaz, Fluorine used to give it on interest to others. As she could not return the huge amount to Riyaz, they were not in good terms. Several times, they quarreled each other.

Before the murder, Riyaz came to her house and demanded his amount. On Saturday night, he came to her house with a knife with an intention of either to recover his money or to kill her. Till 5am, they were engaged in quarrelling and when their quarrel reached its peak, Riyaz stabbed her and slit her throat and killed her. Later, he stayed in the house till 11 am. After collecting all her jewelry, case, mobile phone and scooter, he fled the scene. Now, the police who are investigating the case, arrested him in Mumbai.

After leaving the scooter at Hiriyadka, Riyaz left for Mumbai by bus. The police traced him in Azmeer based on mobile network. Later, the police collected information that he would come to Mangaluru from Ahmedabad via Mumbai by train. So, they arrested him at Panvel railway station.

Riyaz was living with his wife at Ullala. Police recovered the knife and scooter from him. He was produced before the court which remanded him to four days police custody.

Circle inspector Joy, PSI Rozario D’Souza, head constables Ramu Hegde, Rajesh, Prakash and police constable Raghavendra and DCIB police participated in the operation.

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New Delhi (PTI): Vice President C P Radhakrishnan on Saturday led Parliamentarians in paying floral tributes to those who died fending off terrorists who attacked the Parliament House in 2001.

On the 24th anniversary of the attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Radhakrishnan, who is also the Rajya Sabha Chair, were among the first to offer tributes.

A brief function is held outside the now old Parliament building (Samvidhan Sadan) every December 13 to mark the day.

CISF personnel presented a salute or "samman guard" at the venue, after which a moment of silence was observed to mark the anniversary. Till 2023, the CRPF used to offer 'salami shastra' (present arms).

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a senior party leader, were also present at the event. Union ministers Kiren Rijiju, Jitendra Singh and Arjun Ram Meghwal also lined up to offer flower petals at the photographs of the personnel who went down foiling the attack.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is in Latur to attend the funeral of former speaker of the Lower House of Parliament and ex-Union minister Shivraj Patil.

The attack was carried out by five armed terrorists, but personnel from the now former Parliament Security Service, CRPF and Delhi Police foiled the attack, with no terrorist being able to enter the building.

Six Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel, a gardener and a TV video journalist were killed in the attack. All five terrorists were gunned down in the forecourt of the then Parliament building.