Puttur Gang Rape case: High Court grants bail to four accused; all five accused out on bail now
Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court on Thursday, granted bail to the four accused in the gang rape case of Puttur college student. Earlier on November 28, the court had granted bail to one of the five accused. With today’s granting of bail, all the five accused of the case are out on bail now.
Gurunandan, Kishan, Sunil and Prakhyath were on Wednesday granted bail by the Karnataka High Court.
The case dates back to March this year when the five accused had offered lift to a girl of their college to drop her to home and had raped her in an isolated place on car. The video of the incident was also recorded by the accused.
The video went viral on social media platforms in July this year after which the Puttur Women Police filed suo-motto case and had traced and arrested the accused. The arrested accuse were identified as Gurunandan (19), Sunil (19), Prajwal (19), Kishan (19) and Prakyath (19) all students of same college that of the victim.
All the five accused were sent to judicial custody of which Prajwal was granted bail on November 28. Bail applications of other accused will be heard next week in High Court.
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South African police arrest suspect in mass shooting that killed 12, including 3 children
Johannesburg (AP): A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people including three children at an unlicensed pub earlier this month, South African police said on Monday.
The man is suspected of being one of the three people who opened fire on patrons in a pub at Saulsville township, west of South Africa's capital Pretoria, killing 12 people including three children aged 3, 12 and 16.
At least 13 people were also injured during the attack, whose motive remains unknown.
According to the police, the suspect was arrested on Sunday while traveling to Botlokwa in Limpopo province, more than 340 km from where the mass shooting took place on Dec 6.
An unlicensed firearm believed to have been used during the attack was recovered from the suspect's vehicle.
“The 32-year-old suspect was intercepted by Limpopo Tracking Team on the R101 Road in Westenburg precinct. During the arrest, the team recovered an unlicensed firearm, a hand gun, believed to have been used in the commission of the multiple murders. The firearm will be taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis,” police said in statement.
The suspect was arrested on the same day that another mass shooting at a pub took place in the Bekkersdal township, west of Johannesburg, in which nine people were killed and 10 wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on patrons.
Police have since launched a search for the suspects.
South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and recorded more than 26,000 homicides in 2024 — an average of more than 70 a day. Firearms are by far the leading cause of death in homicides.
The country of 62 million people has relatively strict gun ownership laws, but many killings are committed with illegal guns, according to authorities.
According to police, mass shootings at unlicensed bars are becoming a serious problem. Police shut down more than 11,000 illegal taverns between April and September this year and arrested more than 18,000 people for involvement in illegal liquor sales.
