Murder of Assam labourer: Body exhumed and buried in front of officials
Mudigere, September 21: Three labourers from Assam who were working in a coffee plantation, killed their fellow labourer for petty reasons and buried his body before fleeing to Assam.
Following this incident, Gonibeedu police brought the accused from Assam and exhumed the body in front of the officials, conducted postmortem and buried in the Mudigere town Khabaristan.
Four labourers from Assam have been working in the coffee plantation belonging to M.C. Dinesh at Devavrunda village. On September 7, they have got their wages from Dinesh and consumed liquor. They developed quarrel among themselves related to wage and when their clash reached peak, remaining three killed Matlab Ali (17) and buried the body and fled the village.
While going back to Assam, among three, Bilal (21) missed in the train and remaining two Vaidulla (20) and Mohidulla (20) reached their village. When Matlab Ali did not come along with those two, Ali parents enquired them. In the beginning, the accused said that Bilal and Ali missed in the train. Suspecting their behavior, Matlab Ali father Talibun and mother Muktabunnisa lodged a complaint in the local police station.
When the police arrested the two and interrogated them, they spilled the beans saying that Bilal was missing in the train, but they killed Matlab Ali in the coffee plantation and buried his body. Based on this, Assam police informed the Gonibeedu police who rushed to Assam and brought the accused back to Gonibeedu. PSI Rakesh and three other police visited Assam and brought the accused back. The police sources said that the accused and the victim belong to Uzagam village in Durang district in Assam.
The body was exhumed in front of the doctors and Ali’s parents. After the postmortem, the body was handed over to his parents. Social activist Fish Monu and his team helped the Ali’s parents to bury the body in the Khabaristan at Mudigere on Friday.
Tahsildar Padmanabha Shastry, CPI Jagadeesh, MGM hospital medical officer Dr. Santhosh, PSI Rakesh, and various officers from different departments were present while exhuming the body.
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Power tariffs under BESCOM to rise from May 1
Bengaluru (PTI): Power bills for consumers under the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) will go up from May 1, following an order issued by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Friday.
The hike comes after KERC allowed the BESCOM to recover a revenue deficit of Rs 2,068 crore incurred in 2024-25, from the consumers.
As a result, for every unit of electricity consumed in 2024-25, the customers will be charged an additional 56 paise, it said.
"BESCOM shall calculate, for each of the active consumers of FY2024-25 the amount to be recovered based on their actual energy consumption during FY2024-25. Such amount shall be recovered during FY 2026-27 in equal monthly instalments, to be called as 'FY25 True up Charges', commencing from the first meter reading date falling on or after 1 May 2026 and concluding with the reading date ending on 30 April 2027," the order said.
"It is further ordered that BESCOM shall maintain a separate head of account, allocated for the purpose, to record the adjustment of the said amount to ensure full recovery of the deficit," it added.
Similarly Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (CESC) has also recorded a revenue deficit of Rs 121.71 crore and can collect an additional 15 paisa per unit for consumption in 2024-25, official sources said.
