Misappropriation smelt in Mangaluru Indira Canteen
Members allege irregularities
Mayor promises of taking action
Mangaluru, December 26: As corporators alleged misappropriation in the Indira canteens in the city limits, mayor Bhaskar K promised of taking action if the allegation is proved.
The corporators raised the issue in the city corporation general body meeting chaired by Mayor Bhaskar K here on Wednesday.
In the meeting, member Vijay Kumar said that except Lady Goshan, misappropriation was smelt in all Indira Canteens. In some canteens, though 100 members have breakfast and lunch, they produce the bills of 500 customers. The city corporation has already provided Rs 70 lakh to maintain the canteens. A good scheme is suspected to be misused in the city, he said.
Responding to the allegation, the mayor said that he would ask the authorities to visit the canteens and check the CCTV footage to identify the misappropriation and take action.
Street lights to be converted into LED
When the corporators raised the issue of mismanagement of street lights, Corporation Commissioner Muhammad Nazeer said that all street lights in the city would be converted into LED lights, for which a tender would be called in a couple of days.
Members angry over UGD problem
Corporator Madhukiran alleged that UGD water is flowing in the open drainage in the city causing health problems. Another member Abdur Ravoof also said though Septic Treatment Plants (STPs) have commissioned in Bazal, Padeel, Faizal areas, they were not functioning properly.
Reacting to it, the Commissioner said that the UGD works under KUDSEMP works, second stage ADB project, Smart City Project and Amruth Project were taken up in the city at a cost of Rs 507 crore.
On Pachchanadi dumping yard problem, the Commissioner said that spot inspection was done. There was a complaint that the garbage was being dumped from other places during night. In order to keep a vigil on it, authorities were directed to install CCTV cameras and close compound gate, he said.
Deputy mayor Muhammad K, standing committee presidents Praveen Chandra Alva, Naveen D’Souza, Radhakrishna, Latha Salian were present.
Bill payment issue rocks corporation meeting
When member Dayananda Shetty raised the issue that the bills of contractors of various development works in the city corporation limits were not cleared for the last 11 months, Opposition Leader Premananda Shetty said that the corporation has to clear more than Rs 50 crore dues. As a result, the development works were suspended. How the quality works could be expected from the contractors, he asked.
Demanding the financial status of the corporation, Premananda Shetty said that lot of programmes were sanctioned under general funds. But he has doubt about the funds to be provided to such works. If the election is announced, the works would be hampered, he said.
Commissioner Nazeer said that bill payment on general funds was being made in three sections. Bills related to maintenance were cleared up to November, while bills of water supply and UGD were cleared up to July. But the bills of other works were pending for the last one year. Property tax from February to April would be collected. At this time, the bills of the contractors would be cleared and this is the regular process, he said.
But the Opposition members were not happy about the answer. Chief Whip Shashidhar Hegde said that such development works which were not taken up in the history of the corporation, have been completed in the last five years, for which ruling party members applauded.
When Hegde continued his speech, opposition member Poornima objected to it and went before the mayor chair and alleged that no action was taken to supply 24*7 water and all his claims are false.
Due to war of words between ruling and opposition parties, commotion created in the house. When the opposition members demanded resolution on bill clearance, mayor Bhaskar opposed it saying that the corporation would take action. He has sought special funds from the Chief Minister and it would come within a week, he said.
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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.
