Plans to make Mysore Palace area ‘Zero Traffic Zone’, environment-friendly: Minister Mahadevappa
Mysuru: District In-charge Minister Dr. HC Mahadevappa has said that the area around the Mysore Palace will be made a ‘zero traffic zone’ and also an environment-friendly area.
Addressing reporters in the city on Saturday, the minister said, “Traffic management and other development work will be undertaken in an area covering 200 square metres, including Devaraj Market and Clock Tower. Vehicles will be given parking facility on the premises of the Town Hall and Nanjaraja Bahadur Chatra.”
Following the recent war of words between the minister and local MP Pratap Simha to take credit for the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway, Dr. Mahadevappa said on Saturday, apparently aiming his response at the BJP MP, “The development work I implemented as Public Works Minister, including the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway in 2014, when Oscar Fernandes was a Union Minister, have been recorded. I do not aim to take credit for work I have not done.”
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Man held for raping minor stepdaughter in Uttarakhand's Kotdwar
Kotdwar (PTI): A man was arrested here for allegedly raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter, police said on Sunday.
The 32-year-old accused was arrested from Najibabad Road on Saturday and later sent to judicial custody on court orders, they said.
According to police, the minor's mother had lodged a missing person complaint on Friday, stating that her daughter had left home without informing anyone at around 7 am on February 5.
During the investigation, police analysed CCTV camera footage from nearby areas and found that the girl had gone to her grandmother's house.
The grandmother told police that the girl was extremely frightened and did not want to return home due to alleged harassment. She later left the girl with an acquaintance, from where police safely recovered her.
After gaining the girl's confidence, police said she disclosed that her stepfather had raped her on the night of February 4, following which she ran away from home the next morning.
A case has been registered against the accused under Sections 65(1) and 75(2) (rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 3 and 4 (sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
