Stepfather allegedly murders two teenage girls in Bengaluru, escapes
Bengaluru: Two teenage girls, aged 15 and 13, were found murdered in their rented residence at Kaveri Layout near Hebbal on Saturday evening. The police suspect their stepfather, identified as Sumeet, to be responsible for the crime. He is currently on the run.
The girls, students in classes 9 and 8 at a nearby school, had returned home after attending school when the incident occurred. The attack reportedly took place between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., while their mother, Anitha, was at work in a factory. Sumeet, aged around 40, allegedly used a machete to kill the girls following an argument.
Anitha discovered the bodies of her daughters in a pool of blood when she returned home around 8 p.m. Sumeet, originally from Dehradun in Uttarakhand, had married Anitha, who is from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, nine years ago. Anitha informed the police that Sumeet often scolded her daughters over minor issues.
The police have registered a case under s. 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, based on Anitha’s complaint. A special team has been formed to arrest Sumeet, whose phone remains switched off. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) Sajeeth VJ visited the crime scene, and the Scene of Crime Officers (SOCO) team conducted a thorough investigation, collecting crucial evidence.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
