Mangaluru: Top cop meets protesters at Bendoorwell, assures of measures to curb traffic menace
Says bus drivers alone cannot be blamed for accidents, pedestrians need to be careful as well
Mangaluru 30, March: Mangaluru Police Commissioner Kuldeep Jain on Thursday evening met protesters at the Bendoorwell Circle who were protesting against the police department and authorities claiming that they had failed to regulate traffic in the city.
The protest was being held in the wake of a road accident that took place earlier in the day when a 55-year-old woman was mowed down by a private bus at Bendoorwell Junction.
Jain who had earlier in the afternoon assured the protesters to meet them in the evening, arrived at the junction and took stock of the traffic situation before interacting with the protesters. Former MLA Moideen Bawa, MCC Leader of Opposition Naveen, Kannada movie actor Avinash Shetty and others were also present to extend support to the protesters.
Jain arrived with top police officials including DCP Traffic Dinesh Kumar and others and interacted with the protesters who expressed their grievances. Among the major demands of the protesters was to immediately remove the signal at the Kankanady Junction which they claimed was giving rise to the number of accidents in the vicinity.
They also demanded that a Zebra crossing be laid on Bendoorwell and Kankanady junctions along with stringent actions on private bus drivers for their rash and negligent driving.
Jain assured that he will look into all the concerns and demands of the people and would come up with appropriate measures in this regard. He also asserted that canceling the signal at Kankanady Junction would not be appropriate.
Regarding the issues of bus stops, laying speed breakers, and parking problems between Bendoorwell and Kanakandy the top cop and MCC Opposition Leader Naveen played blame games. Jain asserted that the MCC has to lay speed breakers and that his department was not responsible for it. Responding to Jain, Naveen asked the police department to send in a letter requesting the laying of speed breakers. The top cop, however, further claimed that his department had sent several letters urging the MCC to work on laying speed breakers but the MCC would not pay heed to their letters.
Jain further assured of stringent action and measures to curb rash and negligent driving of city bus drivers and added that the department would book more cases of violation against the bus drivers if found guilty.
He also opined that the responsibility of creating safer roads in the city should be shared both by the drivers and the pedestrians and that the pedestrians cannot violate laws of road crossing and others and blame bus drivers.
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
