Goa: Man held for killing minor daughter, dumping body in river
Panaji (PTI): Goa Police have arrested a man for allegedly killing his 11-year-old daughter and dumping the body in a river near capital Panaji, an official said on Sunday.
The police did not elaborate on the motive behind the crime.
The 31-year-old man, Mohammad Salim, a Bihar native who was residing at Charao Island near Panaji, filed a complaint with the Old Goa police on January 12 saying unidentified persons kidnapped his minor daughter on January 10.
The police then registered case of kidnapping under various provisions including the Goa Children's Act against unidentified persons, a senior police official said.
"Teams of the Old Goa and Panaji police through their sources and search for last four days cracked the kidnapping case and found the complainant had himself committed the murder of his minor daughter and dumped the body in the Mandovi river water by tying her hands to a mangrove tree," the official said.
The police arrested the man on Saturday, and the body was fished out with the help of fire personnel, he said.
A probe was on into the case, the official said.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
