Girl raped by road construction worker in Jharkhand
Medininagar ( PTI): A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a driver in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Saturday, police said.
The accused, a driver of an earthmover, was severely beaten by villagers before handing him over to the police, an officer said.
The incident happened near a temporary camp which was set up for road construction workers within the limits of the district's Bishrampur police station.
"The incident happened when the girl was walking past the workers’ camp. At that time, the accused allegedly grabbed and raped her. After the girl recounted her ordeal to the villagers, they beat the accused," the officer-in-charge of the police station, Saurabh Kumar Chaubey, said.
The accused has been arrested, he said.
The police, after rescuing the accused, admitted him to the Medinirai Medical College and Hospital, he said, adding that the girl was also sent to hospital for medical examination.
Chaubey said construction of a road from Mukhikhap to Nawabazar is underway, and the accused, a resident of Vaishali district in Bihar, was employed as a driver of an earthmover at the site.
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Put petty politics aside; it's not about one party, but India: Rahul on TMC's loss in polls
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the BJP's victory in Bengal and Assam assembly polls a "theft" of the mandate, and a big step forward in the saffron party's mission to "destroy" Indian democracy.
Gandhi also came out in support of the TMC, which has been trounced by the BJP in the polls, and urged those gloating over the loss of Mamata Banerjee's party to put petty politics aside.
"Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC's loss.They need to understand this clearly - the theft of Assam and Bengal's mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy," Gandhi said in a post on X.
"Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India," he said in his post.
The BJP ousted Trinamool Congress from power in Bengal and captured power for the third time in a row in Assam in results of assembly polls declared on Monday.
