Kodagu police arrest 3 accused absconding for over a decade in separate cases
Madikeri: Three men, who had been accused in three separate cases filed in police stations of the district but had been absconding for more than a decade, have been arrested by Kodagu police officers and presented before the court.
One of the arrested men, HU Chandrashekhar (49), is a native of Nanjarayapatna village and was facing charges of assaulting Padmavathi, a resident of Kanthuru-Moornadu, and issuing her a death threat. A case had been filed against him 2007 at the Madikeri Rural Police Station and the officers were investigating into the incident. After escaping the law for 16 years, Chandrashekhar was now arrested in the case.
The second arrested, 60-year-old Mani, has been held after 21 years of facing charges of assault as well as murder attempt. In 2002, the Madikeri Rural Police had registered a case against Mani for attacking his wife with a stick and also trying to murder her.
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The third man arrested by the police is identified as Shankar (52), a resident of Dodda Pulikotu village. A case had been filed against him by the Siddapur Police in 2002 for allegedly forcing entry into the house of a woman in Guhya village within the police station jurisdiction and raping her, before issuing her a death threat. Shankar has also been arrested by the police 21 years after committing the crime.
Kodagu Superintendent of Police K Ramarajan has lauded the district police officers and staff members for successfully arresting the absconding accused.
The cases were probed by a special investigation team consisting of Madikeri Deputy SP Mahesh Kumar S, Madikeri Town Circle Inspector Raju PK, Madikeri Rural Inspector Umesh U, Siddapur Sub-inspector Raghavendra as well as the constables of the police stations.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
