14-year-old girl near B'luru forced to marry, man carries her away in broad daylight
Five held by Tamil Nadu police
Bengaluru: Five people accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl from near Bengaluru into wedlock recently have been arrested by Denkanikottai Women Police of Tamil Nadu following a complaint filed by the girl’s grandmother.
A video clip has also gone viral on social media, where a young man is seen carrying away the weeping girl in the presence of another man and a woman, who are accompanying the man ignoring the struggle of the girl.
The girl, who was a resident of Thimmattur village in the valleys of Thottamanju hills near Hosur in Tamil Nadu, had studied till Class 7, after which, she was staying with her parents. On Monday, March 3, she was forcibly married to 29-year-old Madesha, a manual worker from Kalikuttai village in Karnataka. The girl, who returned to Thimmattur after the wedding ceremony in Bengaluru, is learned to have expressed displeasure about the wedding and refused to go to her husband’s house, but neither her parents nor relatives took heed of her objections, the sources have added.
Later, Madesha and his elder brother Mallesh carried the girl away from her relatives’ house in Kalikuttai village to their own house. The scene was captured in the locals’ mobile phones, with the eye-witnesses uploading and sharing the clip on social media platforms.
The girl’s grandmother is learned to have filed a complaint with Denkanikottai Women Police. The officers, who filed a POCSO Act case as well as an abduction case against the accused, arrested Madesha, his brother Mallesha and the girl’s mother Nagamma on Wednesday. They also arrested the girl’s father and Mallesh’s wife early Thursday morning.
The girl is learned to be currently living with her grandparents.
14 வயது சிறுமிக்கு வலுக்கட்டாயமாக திருமணம் செய்து வைத்த தாய்.. திருமணத்தில் விருப்பம் இல்லை என கூறி பிறந்த வீட்டிற்கு வந்த சிறுமியை தூக்கி சென்ற கணவர்.. பரபரப்பு காட்சி#Hosur | #ChildMarriage | #Mother | #Husband | #Police | #Arrested pic.twitter.com/UjVkpfNUFS
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Five arrested in Kerala's Walayar for beating to death Jharkhand native
Palakkad (Kerala) (PTI): Five people have been arrested for allegedly beating to death a Jharkhand native on suspicion of theft near Walayar here a day ago, police said on Friday.
The arrests were formally recorded late Thursday night and all the accused have been booked for the offence of murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, an officer of Walayar police station said.
The deceased -- Ramnarayan Bhayar (31) -- was working as a labourer in the Walayar area.
According to police, Bhayar was attacked by a group of men on Wednesday evening, alleging that he was involved in a theft at Kizhakeattappallam near Walayar.
As per the FIR, the incident occurred before 7.40 pm, and the injured Bhayar was rushed to the Palakkad District Government Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Police said a detailed investigation was underway to ascertain the sequence of events leading to the incident.
