Vijayapura: Minor girl killed after setting her ablaze for denying love proposal; two accused held
Vijayapura, Dec 3: Irked over rejecting the love proposal and informing her parents, two persons have set a minor girl ablaze after pouring kerosene on her and killed at Ratnapura in Thrikota in the district on Monday.
The victim has been identified as Prajakta Balabheema Narale (14) of Rathnapura village. The accused Shankarappa Hipparaka (24) and Mohan Edave (19) of Rathnapura village were arrested. The accused have been forcing the girl to love them. But the girl rejected their proposal and informed this to her parents. Later, her parents kept her at home without sending her to the school, it is said.
But disappointed over this, the accused barged into her house when she was alone at home and poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze before fleeing the scene. She succumbed to the burn injuries, sources said.
Thrikota police registered a case and investigating it.
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Ishan Kishan to lead SRH in early part of IPL 2026
Hyderabad (PTI): Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday appointed India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan as interim captain for the early part of IPL 2026, with Abhishek Sharma as his deputy, while Pat Cummins recovers from his injury.
Cummins has been sidelined with a stress injury on his lower back, which kept him away for a major part of the last Ashes series Down Under as well as the T20 World Cup.
"Pat Cummins will miss a few games while recovering from injury. Until he recovers, Ishan Kishan will be the captain and Abhishek Sharma will be the vice-captain," the franchise said on social media.
IPL 2016 winners SRH, however, did not specify the number of matches Cummins is set to miss.
Kishan's appointment as SRH's stand-in skipper comes after a successful run across formats.
The left-handed batter played a key role in India's title-winning campaign in the T20 World Cup, finishing as the fourth-highest run-scorer in the tournament with 317 runs in nine matches at 199.37. He averaged 80.25 and struck three half-centuries.
His exploits with the willow also saw Kishan rising to the No.2 spot in the ICC rankings for T20I batters, a list which is led by Abhishek.
Earlier this season, Kishan had captained Jharkhand to their first-ever title in India's premier domestic T20 competition, Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.
