Karnataka: More than 11 thousand candidates skip first day of II PUC exam
Bengaluru: 11,379 out of 2,28,073 candidates remained absent for Economics and Business Studies paper of II PUC examinations which commenced across the state on Friday.
Out of 620 candidates enrolled for Economics, 68 of them remained absent, while 11,311 students out of 2,27,453 enrolled for Business Studies remained absent.
61 freshers, 15 repeaters, and 2 private candidates remained absent for Economics paper on Friday. In Business Studies paper, 7,795 freshers, 475 private candidates and 2,492 repeaters were absent, revealed the data released by the preuniversity board of Karnataka.
According to the data, as much as 1,579 candidates remained absent only in Bengaluru while 739 were absent in Tumkur. In Kolar district as much as 592 candidates failed to appear for the exam and in Mysore 543 candidates remained absent. Further, in Davangere and Hassan about 516 and 421 candidates remained absent respectively.
Meanwhile, Abhishek Hiremath who was arrested over posting provocative content on his WhatsApp status which led to communal unrest in Old Hubballi appeared for the exam and has returned to the jail, sources said. It is learned that the youth appeared for Business Studies paper under strict police surveillance.
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One person taken into custody after woman found dead in Himachal forest
Nahan (HP) (PTI): A suspect has been taken into custody after a woman's partially burnt body was found in a forest near a police battalion camp in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmour district, police said.
The body of the woman, who is stated to be in her late 30s, was spotted in the dense forest of the Karaunde Wali Ghati area near Dhaula Kuan by locals on Wednesday morning. The identity of the deceased has not yet been established.
The accused in the case was taken into custody at Bata Bridge in Paonta Sahib on Wednesday evening following scanning of the CCTV footage of the area coupled with inputs from Haryana Police, police said.
According to police, the accused is a resident of Barara town in Ambala district of Haryana. A case of kidnapping has already been registered against him in Ambala.
Sirmour District Superintendent of Police Nischint Singh Negi said one person has been taken into custody following contact with Haryana Police.
Postmortem examination of the woman is scheduled to be conducted on Thursday at the Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar Government Medical College at Nahan.
Police are currently investigating whether the woman was murdered in Barara itself, and if her body was subsequently dumped in the Paonta forest and set on fire.
