No advisors required for Home dept: CM
Bengaluru, May 31: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that the Home department would not require any advisors as the police department has honest and efficient officers.
After holding a meeting with the police officers at Vidhana Soudha here on Thursday, the CM said that the police officers would work efficiently and he has directed the higher ups to give free hand to subordinates to work efficiently. Police department officers and staff should work as a family to develop the credibility. It should not work on the basis of any caste, he said.
He would discuss with the Congress leaders on appointing advisors in some sensitive departments and take a decision, he said blasting at Kempaiah who was the Home Department advisor indirectly.
Clear picture on cabinet expansion and formation of the coordination committee of the JDS-Congress coalition would be finalized on June 1. Leaders of both the parties would have a joint press conference over this issue, he said.
Congress incharge in Karnataka would visit Bengaluru tomorrow. He and JDS supremo HD Deve Gowda would discuss with him on finalizing the portfolios and coordination committee. In view of the coalition government between JDS and Congress, discussions and meetings are necessary. It is common that many people wanted to become ministers. But there is no confusion among Congress and JDS leadership. Decision on expansion of the cabinet would be taken tomorrow, he said.
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Minor girl out with friend raped in MP forest; truck driver, associate held
Raisen (MP), Nov 24: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a truck driver while his two associates restrained the teenager’s male friend in Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district, an official said on Sunday.
Police have arrested two persons, including the truck driver, in connection with the alleged crime committed in Siyarmau forest on Silwani-Sagar Road, some 110 km from the district headquarters, on Saturday evening, he said.
The teenager and her 21-year-old male friend were returning after visiting the Vandevi temple in the area when they parked their two-wheeler and entered the forest, said Silwani’s Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anil Maurya.
At the same time, a truck broke down following which its driver, later identified as Sanju Adivasi (21), and his two friends also went inside the forest, where they spotted the girl and her friend.
The trio thrashed the young man and snatched the key of his motorcycle, he said, citing the FIR.
The driver took the girl deep inside the forest and allegedly raped her, while his associates restrained her friend, the official said.
After the three accused left, the girl and the youth walked to the road and alerted some policemen who were passing by.
Police registered a case against Sanju Adivasi and his associates Shivnarayan Advasi and Akshay Ahirwar under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 64 (rape), 70-1 (gang rape) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
Sanju and Shivnarayan have been arrested, while Ahirwar is on the run, the official said.
