Telangana: Man arrested for drowning three minor daughters in lake
Hyderabad (PTI): An auto driver in the Kamareddy district of Telangana was arrested for allegedly killing his three minor daughters by drowning them in a lake, police said on Sunday.
The auto driver and his wife had approached the police with a complaint on March 6 that their three daughters (aged 8, 6 and 5) were missing, they added.
Police, who took up the investigation after registering a case, searched for the girls by making enquiries with residents and circulating the girls' photos on a messaging app.
When asked where he had last seen the girls, the man gave inconsistent answers and tried to mislead the investigation. During interrogation and after tracking his movements, it was found that he took the girls to a lake in the town and threw them into it, police said.
The man, who is addicted to vices, was facing financial problems. He decided to eliminate the girls as he felt that raising the three daughters was turning out to be difficult, they said.
As per his plan, he took the three girls to the lake on the morning of March 6 on some pretext and threw them into the lake one after another, they added.
He was arrested on charges of murder and remanded to jail, police said.
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Rupee crashes 46 paise to 92.28 against US dollar in early trade, nears all-time low
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee plummeted 46 paise to near its all-time intra-day low of 92.28 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday as global crude oil prices shot up and the greenback strengthened amid the worsening situation in the Middle East.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading higher by a staggering 25.68 per cent at USD 116.5 per barrel in futures trade as the war between US-Israel and Iran intensified.
A big surge in FII outflows and a crash at the domestic equity market in morning trade put further pressure in the local unit, forex traders said.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 92.22 against the US dollar before declining further to 92.28, down 46 paise from its previous close. The rupee had hit an all-time intra-day low of 92.35 on March 4.
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The rupee depreciated 18 paise against the US dollar on Friday to close at 91.82 against the American currency.
"The rupee will remain vulnerable to the rising oil prices which have risen by more than 28 per cent since the last closure on Friday. Asian currencies were also lower on Monday," Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director, Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP, said.
Rupee might touch 93.00 if oil remains above USD 100 in the coming trading sessions, he added.
The dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.66 per cent higher at 99.64.
On the domestic equity market front, the Sensex crashed 2,345.89 points to 76,573.01 in early trade, while Nifty tumbled 708.75 points to 23,741.70.
Foreign institutional investors sold equities worth Rs 6,030.38 crore on a net basis on Friday, according to exchange data.
Meanwhile, India's forex reserves jumped USD 4.885 billion to an all-time high of USD 728.494 billion during the week ended February 27, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.
