About 1,500 people shifted to relief camps in Hyderabad following heavy rains
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Hyderabad (PTI): About 1,500 people living in low-lying areas here were shifted to relief camps as the Musi river was in spate following heavy rains in the city, officials said on Saturday. Other parts of Telangana also received heavy rains.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) said 10 relief camps were set up to provide shelter to those evacuated from low-lying areas.
Food and other essential items were being provided to those staying in the relief camps, it said in a release.
State Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, GHMC Commissioner RV Karnan and other officials made field visits, including the flood-hit areas, for taking relief works.
The flood water entered the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS), a major bus complex in Telangana, prompting authorities to halt the bus services. Passengers waiting for buses in the complex were shifted out safely late on Friday.
Prabhakar said the government is taking measures to prevent loss of life and that it has set up relief camps.
He added that buses are being operated from alternative areas in the city in view of the flooding in the MGBS.
Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana continued to receive rains on Saturday. The Telangana Development Planning Society said 10.8 mm of rainfall was reported at Vijaynagar Colony and Shaikpet in the city during 8.30 am to 10 pm on Saturday.
Lingaipalle in Medak district received 105.8 mm of rainfall, followed by 92.5 mm of rain at Manoor in Sangareddy district, it said.
The Met Centrre issued an yellow alert and forecast that heavy rainn is very likely to occur at isolated places in Adilabad, Nirmal and other districts on September 28.
Thunderstorm is likely to continue at various places in the state during the next three days, it said.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who enquired about the situation following the heavy inflows in the Musi, directed officials to take precautionary measures by monitoring the situation in all localities adjacent to the river and shift people living in low-lying areas to relief camps if necessary.
The water level in Musi river rose after the gates of Hyderabad’s twin reservoirs -- Himayatsagar and Osmansagar -- were raised following the heavy rains.
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19-yr-old woman found hanging from tree in UP village; juvenile held
Lucknow/Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Police have apprehended a 16-year-old boy for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village here, officials said on Monday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, said that the body of a 19-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in an orchard in the Manikpur police station area on Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination subsequently confirmed that she had been raped.
Police registered a case against unidentified persons under sections 103(1) (punishment for murder) and 70(1) (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and initiated an investigation.
During the course of the investigation, the police found that the deceased was in contact with a juvenile who was also her relative.
Acting on this information, during a joint checking operation, sub-inspector Amit Kumar Singh of Manikpur police station and SOG In-charge Amit Kumar Chaurasia, along with their team, apprehended the 16-year-old near the Lehdari Ganga River bridge.
The search for other accused persons is ongoing, police said.
According to the police, the woman had gone to sleep after dinner on Saturday night but was found hanging in an orchard nearly 400 metres away from her home the following morning.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, had earlier said that the circumstances suggest foul play.
"The victim's slippers and undergarments were recovered 50 metres away from the spot where the body was found. There are visible injury marks on her body," Rai said.
While locals have alleged that the woman was murdered after being raped, the ASP said that it is "prima facie a case of murder."
"Based on the complaint filed by the victim's brother, a case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons," the officer added.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, in a post on X in Hindi on Monday, said, "The news of the heinous murder of a Dalit daughter in Pratapgarh is deeply tragic and condemnable."
"The question remains: why does the spate of murders of 'PDA daughters' continue unabated in Uttar Pradesh? Are the BJP government's claims regarding women's safety merely hollow rhetoric, or is there, in fact, discrimination even in the provision of security for women?" he said.
"Whenever the 'wandering Honourable (ghumantu maananiye)' finds a moment of respite from election campaigning, he should cast a glance at the plight of the daughters of his own Uttar Pradesh. In any case, apart from injustice and oppression, no sister, daughter, or mother of this state holds any hope from you," Yadav added.
