Mangaluru Hajj pilgrimage to kick start on July 17
Mangaluru: The journey of Hajj pilgrims who have taken Hajj pilgrimage through Mangaluru Hajj Camp from the Karnataka State Hajj Committee for 2019 would be kicked off at a programme to be held at Bajpe Ansar Public School here on July 17 at 10.30 am, said committee general secretary BM Mumtaz Ali Krishnapura.
Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, he said that state Hajj and Wakf Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed would inaugurate the programme in which District Minister would distribute Passports to first time Hajj pilgrims and state Hajj Committee president Roshan Baig would flag off the vehicle of the first batch. MLA Umanath Kotian would preside over it and state Hajj Committee member KM Abubakar Siddiq Montugoli would deliver keynote address, he said.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLAs Dr 'Bharat Shetty, Vedavyas Kamath, MLCs Ivan D'SOUZA, BM Farooq, Harish Kumar, state minority commission president GA Bava, Yenepoya University Chancellor Abdul Kunji, former MLAs BA Moidin Bava and KS Mohmmad Masood, Hajj department secretary AB Ibrahim, district Wakf Committee president UK Monu Kalachuri, Mangaluru Airport Authority director VV Rao, state Hajj Committee EO Sarfraz Khan Sardar, Bajpe Ansar School president BM Zakariya would participate, he said.
Registration from July 15
Registration of Hajjis would begin at Ansar Public School ground on July 15 at 9.30 am. Those who leave Mangaluru on July 17 would have to register on July 15, those who leave on July 18 should register on July 16, those who leave on July 19 should register themselves on July 17, he said.
8000 Hajj pilgrims from state
Total 8000 Hajj pilgrims would take pilgrimage from the state for 2019 and so far, rhe Soudi government has issued 2 lakh visas for pilgrims from the country and among them, 1.40 lakh would visit Hajj through government and remaining 60000 would take up the journey through private company. Total 500 flights would take off from 21 Embarkation Points from the country. Majority of the pilgrims have already reached the sacred place Makka and Madina.
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Malaysian Indian sentenced to jail and caning for raping Indonesian woman in Singapore
Singapore (PTI): An Indian-origin Malaysian man was sentenced in Singapore to 12 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane for raping a domestic worker outside a train station after tricking her into thinking that he was a police officer.
Sharveen Chetty, 48, pleaded guilty on February 4 to one charge of raping the 35-year-old Indonesian woman in the bushes outside Exit F of a subway, Little India Mass Rapid Transit station, at about 8pm on July 11, 2022.
The victim was with her friends at the time, but Chetty lured her away before he sexually assaulted her, according to a report by The Straits Times on Thursday.
Two other charges – a second rape charge and a charge of impersonating a police officer – were taken into consideration during sentencing on Wednesday.
The witnesses who testified on the first day of the trial included a doctor from Women’s and Children’s Hospital who examined the victim a day after the rapes, and forensic scientists from the Health Sciences Authority.
Chetty had initially contested the charges in a High Court trial that began on February 3. But he changed his mind and pleaded guilty on what would have been the second day of the trial, according to the daily report.
In sentencing, Justice Dedar Singh Gill considered it aggravating that Chetty had targeted the victim because she was a foreigner who might be unfamiliar with the local authorities.
The judge rejected the defence's arguments that the rape was not premeditated.
The judge, however, noted that Chetty had pleaded guilty before the victim and key prosecution witnesses testified, thus sparing her and her friends from going through cross-examination.
The prosecution had sought a sentence of between 11 and 13 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane, noting Chetty’s extensive efforts to disguise himself, and his predatory act of leading the victim away from the rest of the group.
Chetty admitted that he became sexually attracted to the victim.
