Bengaluru, September 20: Close on the heels of Chief Minister H.D Kumaraswamy’s statement that people would revolt against BJP if the latter tried to destabilize the coalition government in the state, hundreds of Congress workers laid siege the house of BJP state President B.S Yeddyurappa in the city on Thursday and expressed their ire.
In a sudden development, the Congress workers laid siege the house at Dollars Colony in the city and shouted slogans against Yeddyurappa, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra and the central government.
Verbal duals
Meanwhile, B.S Yeddyurappa was holding a meeting with the MLAs at his residence. At this time, the Congress and BJP workers engaged in verbal duals and reached a stage of scuffle each other. BJP MLAs MP Renukacharya, Vishwanath, Madalu Virupakshappa, Doddappa Gowda Patil, Harish Poonja, Ravikumar and Ayanur Manjunath made futile attempt to pacify the Congress workers.
Later, both the Congress and BJP workers exchanged heated arguments and shouted slogans against each others. The Congress workers tried to barge into the house of Yeddyurappa. As Renukacharya pushed the Congress workers, tension prevailed for some time.
The police who rushed to the spot dispersed the Congress and BJP workers and put barricades on the road leading to Yeddyurappa’s house and police security was beefed up.
“Corrupt Yeddyurappa who had been to the jail was the leader of Operation Lotus. Yeddyurappa’s unethical politics should be rejected. The Central government has been using the IT and ED to hound Congress leaders and they will not succeed”.
- Congress workers
“In the name of protest, Congress workers have behaved like goondas and Chief Minister Kumaraswamy is encouraging them. We have also grown up. We know how to give them the answer”.
- M.P Renukacharya, BJP MLA
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Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.