Student missing case: Miscreants raped her before killing
Two accused held
Madikeri, February 13: Busting the Emmegundi Estate girl missing case, Kodagu police arrested two accused in the case
The arrested accused have been identified as Ranjith and Sandeep, daily wage workers from West Bengal. It is also being said that the duo also raped the girl before killing her.
A case was registered at Siddapura police station that the girl was kidnapped from Emmegundi Estate. The police interrogated the workers working in the local estate. After collecting information that Ranjith and his friend had quarreled with the girl, the police took Ranjith who was working in Karadikadu estate near Emmegundi, into custody and interrogated him.
During interrogation, Ranjith confessed that in order to take revenge on the girl, he and Sandeep kidnapped the girl on February 4, raped her and strangulated her to death with rope fearing that she would disclose the incident, said SP Dr Suman Pannekar.
They hid the body amidst the boulders near Ganapathi temple of Emmegundi Estate. When Sandeep was arrested and interrogated, he also gave clue about Ranjith's involvement, the SP said.
Under the direction of SP Suman Pannekar and guidance of DySP Sundar Raj, Kodagu district crime inspector M Mahesh, CPI Anoop Madappa, Siddapura PSI Dayanand, staff Yogesh Kumar, Venkatesh, Anil, Vasanth, Niranjan, MA Girish, CK Rajesh and Manjunath of SDR Cell, Lava Kumar, Pruthvisha, Mallappa and drivers Shashikumar, Poovaiah, Mohan participated in the operation.
Action if not given information
Across Kodagu district, daily wage workers from Assam, West Bengal and other states have been working in coffee estates and the estate owners should compulsorily provide the details of such daily wage workers from other states to the nearest police stations. All the estate owners have been informed about it. But some estate owners have neglected to provide the details to the police stations. The police would take legal action against such estate owners, said the SP.
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21 hours raid fetch nothing for ED, claims Karnataka Cong MLA’s son
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris' son Mohammed Haris Nalapad on Tuesday claimed that the 21 hours of search by the ED in his house and other locations did not fetch anything.
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday raided the premises of the two sons of Haris (Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad), Aqeeb Khan, grandson of ex-Union cabinet minister K Rahman Khan and an alleged crypto hacker named Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki in a crypto currency-linked money laundering case.
More than a dozen premises in the city have been covered as part of the action executed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
"My grandfather is 89-year-old. There is not a single bad mark. My father (N A Haris) is a four-time MLA. There is not a single accusation against him. Their only intention was to target myself and my brother. As simple as that," Mohammed Nalapad, who is a former Karnataka Youth Congress president, told reporters.
According to him, the ED officials carried out raids for 21 hours.
"After 21 hours of search, they took away only two mobile phones from our house. They did not get a single paisa. The ED will testify it," the Congress leader said.
Exuding faith in the law, he said he is ready to fight the case in court.
"Me and my father have opted for politics and we are in public life. You can call me whatever you want but I have not done anything wrong," Mohammed Nalapad said.
Regarding his relationship with Sriki, he said he knew him but had no clue what he was doing.
"I have never said that either me or my brother do not know Sriki. But how will I know what he does in his house? Can his crimes be linked to us," he asked.
The money laundering case stems from some Karnataka Police FIRs and chargesheets filed in a 2017 case of hacking of national and international websites, stealing of bitcoins and sale of these 'stolen' virtual digital assets (VDA) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.
The Nalapad brothers and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be the beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this alleged crypto-linked crime, the ED said.
