Hassan: Chandra H.S, a native of Haradaoor in Arkalgudu taluk of Hassan district, is one among nine CRPF men who were killed in an ambush by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Tuesday.

The son of Swamy Gowda and Kalamma, Chandra joined the CRPF five years ago. He is survived by his wife, parents and two brothers.

Chandra had married Pruthvi, a native of Maragowdanahalli in Arkalgudu taluk, a year ago. His wife is seven months pregnant. The family members received the information of the incident on Tuesday evening and have not yet come out of the shock.

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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.