Madikeri: Auto driver held for raping woman manual labourer returning from work in Ponnampet
Madikeri: Kodagu police officers arrested an auto rickshaw driver under charge of sexually assaulting a woman while she was returning home from work in Ponnampet recently.
The arrested Manikantha allegedly approached the woman, who was a manual labourer, in a Maruti Omni car in Ponnampet when she was on her way home at 5:30 pm on Sunday. He told the woman that he was going to Kunda and offered to drop her on the way. The woman, who wanted to go to B. Shettygeri, agreed for the drop.
The woman lodged a complaint with the Gonikoppa police on Thursday, alleging that Manikantha had stopped the car after a short distance, sexually assaulted her, also warned her not to file a complaint if she did not want to get killed, and left her on the road.
The Gonikoppa Police, who registered the complaint and investigated the matter, arrested Manikantha.
Virajpet DySP R Mohan Kumar, Gonikoppa Circle Inspector Vasant. K. M., Station officer Siddaraj and staff were a part of the investigating team.
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TMC leader killed in Bengal's Birbhum
Kolkata (PTI): A local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader was murdered by unidentified assailants in West Bengal's Birbhum district, police said on Saturday.
Rajbehari Sardar (65), TMC's booth chief in Patisara gram panchayat, was stabbed and severely beaten up by around five-six people at a function in Nanoor area around 10 pm on Friday, a police officer said.
Sardar was taken to Mangalkot Hospital in neighbouring Purba Bardhaman district where he was declared dead by doctors, he said.
The deceased's son alleged that Sardar was killed by members of a rival faction of the party.
The local TMC leadership said Sardar was a committed party worker and was popular in the area, but claimed that there was no report of the involvement of anyone from the party in the murder.
"We demand a thorough and prompt investigation into the incident," a local TMC leader said.
