B'luru: Yoga guru Niranjana Murthy arrested for alleged rape of 8 female students, including minors
Bengaluru: Rajarajeshwari Nagar Police have booked yoga teacher Niranjana Murthy who is accused of raping at least eight women, young ladies and girls, under POCSO Act and arrested him.
The case was filed against the yoga guru based on a complaint filed by a 17-year-old youngster who used to visit the yoga centre run by him in Rajarajeshwari Nagar (RR Nagar). Murthy used to assure the women students that he would make them ‘world famous’ in performing yoga, which would help them get government employment too. Winning their trust, the teacher raped around eight women in his class, the complainant has said.
The yoga guru, on learning that a case had been filed against him, is said to have gone absconding. The police, however, succeeded in finding and arresting him, with the officers confirming the rape during interrogation.
The officers are said to have received information that Murthy had raped more girls and women and are, therefore, continuing the investigation of the case.
Rajarajeshwari Nagar Police have urged people with information related to the case, including rape and assault, to file complaints against the yoga guru, and have assured that the identity of the informants would not be divulged.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
