Vartha Bharati's Pushparaj B.N., Ibrahim Adkasthala selected for Press Club Annual Honour 2022
Mangaluru Press Club day, Award ceremony on March 5
Mangaluru: Pushparaj B.N., Mangaluru Bureau Chief of Vartha Bharati and Senior Correspondent Ibrahim Adkasthala are among the 10 senior journalists who will receive the Mangaluru Press Club Annual Honour for the year 2022.
The award ceremony will be held on March 5 at Kudla Kudru Paradise Island in Boloor, the program will begin at 10 am.
K. Sadashiva Shenoy, president of the Karnataka Madhyama Academy, will inaugurate the award ceremony and Annu Mangaluru, president of the Mangaluru Press Club, will preside over the event. Senior journalist K. Anand Shetty and general secretary of the Press Club Mohammad Arif Padubidri will be the chief guests for the ceremony.
Senior journalists Jinnappa Gowda, I. B. Sandeep Kumar, Vinoba K. T., Prakash Ilanthila, Pushparaj B. N., Stanley Pinto, Ramakrishna Bhat, Ramakrishna R., Ibrahim Adkasthala and B. Ravindra Shetty will be felicitated with the ‘Mangaluru Press Club Annual Honour 2022’.
Raviraj H. G., senior assistant director of the Department of Information and Public Relations, will honour the children of journalists with the talent awards. Cardiologist Dr. Padmanabha Kamath will hand the new ECG equipment to the journalists’ association.
Rajani Shetty, who is feeding and supporting stray animals in Beedadi, will be honoured with the Press Club Award by film actor and Big Boss show winner Roopesh Shetty.
Srinivasa Nayak, president of the Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalists’ Association; P. B. Harish Rai, member of the Indian Working Journalists’ Association; and Jagannath Shetty Bala, member of the Karnataka Madhyama Academy, will attend the program.
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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.
