Chikmagaluru: Traffic movement suspended on SK Border-Nemmar road
Mangaluru, June 14: As the Tunga river is overflowing on the SK Border and Nemmar road which connects Mangaluru and Chikmagaluru, the traffic movement on the road was suspended on Thursday.
More than 50 vehicles including buses were stuck on the road due to overflowing of water on the road on Thursday afternoon. A private bus heading towards Mangaluru from Davangere also stuck on the road.
When information was sought in media and police WhatsApp group, Chikmagaluru SP Annamalai confirmed that the bus stuck in between SK Border and Nemmar and informed that all passengers were safe. Moreover, the SP also made food arrangement for the passengers through local police and tahsildar.
Meanwhile, the traffic movement on Sringeri road 169 was also disrupted near Muruvinakombe due to landslide. Tunga river water reached steps of the Sringeri temple. But as of now, the situation is under control, said SP Annamalai.
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Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to seven-day judicial custody in third rape case
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Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik on Monday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody till April 20 in a third case of rape against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a pregnant woman.
The special investigation team (SIT) produced Kharat for a virtual hearing in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani as his police custody in the case ended on Monday.
The SIT presented the remand report and sought judicial custody for Kharat, a former merchant navy officer. The court then remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody till April 20.
In the third case, Kharat, who was first arrested in mid-March, is accused of sexually exploiting a seven-month pregnant woman, the wife of his office staffer.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim's husband, the accused sexually assaulted the survivor on multiple occasions, including in his office in Nashik, between November 2023 and December 2025.
Kharat also conducted a ritual with the pregnant woman at a temple in Mirgaon village of Sinnar taluka of the district, it said.
Although the victim informed her husband about her plight, he did not believe her. But when he heard about complaints of Kharat's misbehaviour with other women, he planted a spy camera in the astrologer's office to find out the truth and recorded his acts.
The employee later handed over to the police a pen drive containing objectionable videos of the 'godman'.
Kharat faces nearly a dozen cases, eight of them related to sexual assaults.
The SIT, meanwhile, has filed an application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in another case. As the court granted them the necessary permission, the team will take the accused's custody from the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Kharat will be produced in court again in the fourth case on Tuesday.
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