Pray for peace and harmony of the country: U T Khader tells Haj pilgrims in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District in-charge minister U T Khader on Wednesday urged the Haj pilgrims who were set to embark on the pilgrimage to pray for the safety, peace and communal harmony of the country.
He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Haj flights 2019, in the city organised by Mangaluru Haj Camp Committee. The inaugural event was presided over by Muhammed Kunhi, President of Mangaluru Haj Camp Committee.
Central Haj Committee member and MP Muhammed Irfan Ahmed, Former MLA K S Mohammed Masood, B A Mohinuddin Bava, DK District Wakf Advisory Committee Chairman Kanachur Monu, SM Rasheed Haji, Abdul Rasheed Zain, B M Zakariya, Mangaluru Taluka Panchayath President Mohammed Monu, B A Khader Shah, Haider Partipadi, K K Shahul Hameed, N S Karim, former Mayor K Ashraf, Basheer Baikampady and others were present on the dias during the event.
Karnataka Haj Committee Executuive Officer Sarfaraz Khan welcomed the gathering, Committee’s General Secretary B M Mumtaz Ali proposed vote of thanks while Media Secretary Rasheed Vitla compered the event.
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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.
