Woman kills father over refusal to give mobile phone; held
Bilaspur, Jan 26: A 58-year-old man was bludgeoned to death allegedly by his daughter in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh after he refused to give her mobile phone which he had hidden, police said on Tuesday.
The accused, identified as Divya Saraswati (28), later buried the body in the courtyard of their house with the help of her mother, they said.
The incident took place on January 24 evening in Kanchanpur village under Belgahna tehsil and the mother- daughter duo was arrested on Tuesday, said Dinesh Chandra, in-charge, Belgahna police outpost.
On January 23, Saraswati's husband dropped his wife to her parents house and the next day, when she did not find her mobile phone, she asked her father Manglu Ram Dhanuhar about it, he said.
Saraswati's father first told her that he was unaware about the mobile phone, but later said as she got married against his wishes, he has hidden the device, he said.
When Dhanuhar refused to return the phone, her daughter brutally thrashed him with a stick and repeatedly hit him with a stone, leaving him dead on the spot, he said.
Saraswati's mother helped her in burying the body in the courtyard of their house and afterwards both ran away from the spot, Chandra said.
One of their neighbours saw the entire act and informed the police on Monday, he said.
The two were arrested and booked under section 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC, Chandra said, adding further probe was underway.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
