Yedamoge infant abduction and murder case: Mother booked for murdering two-year old daughter
Udupi: Udupi Police on Saturday booked Rekha, the mother of two-year old girl who was reported to be abducted on Thursday and her body was found on Friday in a water stream. The police booked Rekha for the murder of infant.
In an unexpected turn of events, Rekha had on Friday during investigations confessed of killing her daughter while also attempting to commit suicide.
Rekha allegedly attempted suicide by jumping in the river along with her son and daughter but she and her son survived and her daughter was washed away.
Police sources also added that Rekha was mentally unstable and was being counselled by medical team. She has been booked under section 302 of IPC for murder, 307 for attempt to murder and for attempting suicide.
On July 11, a case was registered with Udupi police adding the Rekha’s daughter Sanvika was abducted by unidentified people late at night, investigating the matter, the police had recovered body of Sanvika from a water stream near her home on Friday.
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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.
