JDS issues whip to MLAs
Bengaluru: JDS Karnataka Chief HD Kumaraswami issued a whip to its MLAs to vote for the party candidate BM Farooq in the March 23 biennial election to the Rajya Sabha.
The whip has been issued to 37 JDS MLAs including the rebel MLAs who were already suspended by the party.
Seven MLAs had violated the party's whip by indulging in cross-voting and had voted for Congress candidate in the previous biennial polls to the four Rajya Sabha seats. This had led to the defeat of the JDS candidate.
Now, once again BM Farooq is contesting for the Rajya Sabha seat.
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MP: 7-year-old girl raped and murdered; minor relative detained
Barwani (MP), Jan 28 (PTI) Police on Wednesday detained a 17-year-old relative of a seven-year-old girl in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly raping her and killing her by throwing her into a canal, a police official said.
Superintendent of Police Jagdish Dawar told reporters that the body of the child was recovered from the Indira Sagar Canal on January 26, following information from residents of a village in the Rajpur police station area of the district.
He said the post-mortem report concluded severe injuries to the girl’s private parts and attributed her death to drowning.
Dawar said a 17-year-old boy, a close relative of the girl, has been detained in connection with the rape-murder.
The teenager told the police that he kidnapped the girl from her home on the night of January 25 while her family members were asleep, took her to a nearby canal and raped her, according to the official.
When the girl started screaming during the sexual assault, the minor boy allegedly threw her into the canal, with the intention of killing her. The child drowned in the water body, the official said.
The detained minor will be produced in a juvenile court.
A case has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and an investigation is underway, he added.
