Karnataka youth hoists Kannada flag atop Kilimanjaro of Tanzania
Bengaluru, October 14: A Kannadiga youth from Karnataka literally followed the words of Kuvempu - “Elladaru Iru Entadaru Iru, Endendigu Nee Kannadavagiru”- by hoisting Kannada flag atop mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, of Tanzania to express his love towards Karnataka.
Ashutosh Bhaskar (23), working as a marketing executive in A company called Mozi which sells adventure materials, climbed the Mt. Kilimanjaro, the fourth highest peak in the world, when he visited Tanzania as part of his official tour from the company, and hoisted the Kannada flag. " Right from the beginning of my tour, I was dreaming of climbing the mountain. But I didn’t know that I would get this opportunity”, he explained.
“As a customer of the company cancelled the proposed meeting, I have got the opportunity to climb this African mountain which is 5895 mts above the sea level. Basically, I am from Karnataka. Before climbing the Kilimanjaro, it was flashed in my mind that I should hoist the Kannada flag as soon as I reached the peak of the mountain”, Ashutosh said.
When I was in Tanzania, I found that there were few people who could speak English. More than half of the population speaks Swahili language and I felt that I have lost my country and mother tongue”, he said.
Suddenly, he went to a tailor and asked him to stitch Kannada flag. He managed to purchase the cloth with the help of locals. “I spent six hours to get the required cloth and I prepared the flag at 5 dollar”, Ashutosh who is a resident of Jayanagar in Bengaluru said.
He started his mountaineering on September 21 and reached the peak of Kilimanjaro in six days.
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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.
