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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EC demands extra security as unrest grips Bangladesh afresh
Dhaka (PTI): The Election Commission (EC) has demanded extra security for its chief, other commissioners and officials as fresh unrest visibly gripped Bangladesh after gunmen shot an upcoming parliamentary polls candidate and frontline leader of last year's violent street movement dubbed 'July Uprising'.
"The EC has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) urging comprehensive security arrangements for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Election Commissioners (ECs), senior officials of the Election Commission Secretariat," the state-run BSS news agency reported on late Saturday.
The EC simultaneously sought the extra security for its field-level offices ahead of the 13th national election, as two of them came under attack in southeastern Lakshmipur and southwestern Pirojpur by unidentified miscreants after the announcement of the schedule for the upcoming polls on Thursday.
The commission demanded an additional escort vehicle for the CEC, while one such police escort with a vehicle was currently in place for him. It asked for round-the-clock police escorts for the four commissioners and the senior secretary.
The letter said the enhanced security measures were "urgent and necessary," while EC officials said their 10 regional offices, 64 district election offices and 522 sub-district level offices would store important documents and election materials.
The EC on Thursday said the upcoming parliamentary election would be held on February 12 next year, while a day later, Sharif Osman Hadi was shot from a close range in the head, critically wounding him, as he initiated his election campaign from a constituency in the capital.
Critically ill former prime minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) simultaneously asked Muhammad Yunus' government to provide security for all candidates in the upcoming election after the attack on Hadi, who leads a radical right-wing cultural group called Inquiab Mancha.
"We demand that the real culprit be identified immediately and brought under the law, and we call upon this government to ensure the security of all candidates without delay," BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
Hadi was also a frontline leader of last year's student-led violent uprising that toppled then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5, 2024.
His Inquilab Mancha was also at the forefront of a campaign to disband the Awami League, which the interim government complied with in May this year, disqualifying the party from contesting the polls.
The government on Saturday ordered a nationwide security clampdown called 'Operation Devil Hunt 2' amid escalated fears over the law and order situation and promised to issue firearms licenses for election candidates for their own security.
Home adviser (retd) Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said the government had taken steps to ensure special security for the "frontline fighters" of the July Uprising and promised to issue firearms licenses for the election candidates.
He emphasised that the second phase of the 'Devil Hunt' was aimed at helping ensure public safety and combat the growing threat of illegal arms.
The operation was initially launched in February this year following protests over an attack on the private house of a former minister of the ousted government in the northern suburb of the capital, when it targeted alleged "henchmen" and supporters of the now disbanded Awami League.
