Disturbing details shock students after B’luru engineering student’s arrest for alleged campus rape
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Bengaluru: An engineering student identified as Jeevan Gowda, 22, was brought before a court, booked under Section 64 (rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sent into judicial custody after allegedly raping his senior on a private college campus in Bengaluru.
The incident took place on October 10, as recorded by in the complaint. The survivor, a seventh-semester student, alleged that Gowda who is a fifth-semester student in the same college, lured her to the seventh floor near the architecture block during lunch break. On the pretext of wanting to speak privately, he tried to kiss her which she resisted, he allegedly followed her when she tried to leave in a lift. Gowda dragged her to the men’s toilet on the sixth floor and sexually assaulted her. After the incident, the accused allegedly called the survivor and asked if she needed a pill, as reported by ANI
An investigating officer said, “He forcibly took her to the men’s restroom and committed the assault. He also snatched her mobile phone when it rang, during the incident.”
Police sources confirmed that the survivor confided in her friends and informed her parents, after five days. She was in shock and hesitant in reporting the matter immediately. Her parents accompanied her to file a complaint at Hanumanthanagar police station on October 15.
Investigators have begun collecting forensic evidence; though no CCTV footage was available from the floor where the incident occurred has posed a challenge to the inquiry.
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Thane court sentences man to life imprisonment for bludgeoning wife to death
Thane (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Thane district sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of his wife, whom he attacked 22 times with a hammer in front of his children, based on the testimony of his 13-year-old daughter.
Principal district and sessions judge S B Agrawal found the accused, Vijay Mishra alias Samir Shaikh, guilty under sections 302 (murder) and 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The court sentenced him to life imprisonment and a three-year term to be served concurrently. It also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for the murder charge and an additional Rs 10,000 for injuring his minor daughter and mother-in-law, who had tried to intervene during the fatal attack.
Additional public prosecutor Rashmi Kshirsagar informed that 11 prosecution witnesses, including the accused's daughter, were examined during the trial.
According to the prosecution, the victim, Zarin Israr Ansari, had been living with her mother, along with her daughter and a six-year-old son, for two years following prolonged domestic violence and disputes.
The accused, who had converted to Islam to marry Zarin 14 years prior, harboured deep resentment over her living separately and suspected her character.
On the afternoon of September 28, 2023, the accused stormed into his mother-in-law's residence in Mumbra with a hammer concealed in a bag, cornered his wife on the mezzanine floor, dragged her down, locked the main door, and repeatedly bludgeoned her.
The court defended the testimony of the victim's 13-year-old daughter, who was an eyewitness and had sustained injuries herself, noting that minor inconsistencies do not degrade the core truth of an innocent child's account:
"...they are not of any significant consequence since it is not expected from such a witness of 10 years of age to have a total photographic memory to be reproduced before the court. But as far as the incident is concerned, evidence of this witness is totally free from any reasonable doubt."
The prosecution had also stated that the accused had locked his family inside and threatened a neighbour by brandishing a "bomb-like thing" and declaring he would blow up the building if anyone intervened.
The victim's brother eventually broke down the latched door, disarmed the accused, and pinned him down until the police arrived.
The post-mortem report revealed that the victim had suffered 22 brutal injuries and had died due to severe head wounds.
