Sudharsan's hundred leads GT to 205/3 against RCB
Bengaluru (PTI): B Sai Sudharsan produced a magnificent 100 that was an anti-thesis of T20 batting, but still strong enough to carry Gujarat Titans to a competitive 205 for three against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Friday.
In fact, the 12.4 overs of the Titans’ innings was an anti-thesis of T20 batting, where the former champions proved that runs can be made in this format without hitting the ball in anger.
Sudharsan’s 58-ball knock, his third hundred in the IPL, was the cornerstone in GT’s trend-defying effort with the bat.
The left-hander totally dominated the 128-run alliance with his opening partner and captain Shubman Gill (32, 24b) from the outset, as
Sudharsan consumed 29 balls in the Power Play segment against the latter’s seven.
The 24-year-old Tamil Nadu batter, who also became the fastest to score 2000 IPL runs along his innings, made 46 runs in Power Play, and then reached fifty off 33 balls in style, clobbering Romario Shepherd for a six.
The next fifty runs came at a faster clip -- 24 balls -- and it was a phase where he nullified RCB’s spin duo Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma.
Krunal tried his trademark bouncer to keep Sudharsan quiet, but the batter was equal to the task, upper cutting it over backward point for a six.
He followed that up with a boundary and a swept six off the same bowler as RCB skipper Rajat Patidar had to check for different options.
Gill’s dismissal did not alter the course of the match much, as Sudharsan, who was dropped on 91 by Suyash off his bowling, bled the RCB bowling silently.
Sudharsan got to his hundred with a single off Suyah but could not build on it further, giving a rather tame return catch to Josh Hazlewood.
He fell at an individual score of 100, precisely the total they made against Mumbai Indians in a 99-run mauling a few days back.
But his departure, though, helped RCB pull back a bit in the death overs.
In the overs between 17 -- GT were 174 for two at that stage -- and 20, the Titans could garner only 31 runs and there were not many boundary hits too, even that materialised because team's debutant Jason Holder's cameo (23 not out, 10b)
But on another slightly tacky surface, RCB will have to bat really well to scale this down.
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K'taka HC Orders Rs 75k monthly support to rape victim, grants conditional stay in case
Bengaluru (PTI): The High Court of Karnataka on Friday directed a petitioner accused of repeated rape on false promise of marriage to pay Rs 75,000 monthly towards the sustenance of the victim and their 10-month-old child, while granting an interim stay on further criminal proceedings against him.
The order was passed by Justice M Nagaprasanna while hearing a writ petition filed by 22-year-old engineering student Srikrishna J Rao, who had sought quashing of proceedings pending against him in a sessions court in Mangaluru under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The bench noted that the petitioner and the victim, aged 22 and 20 respectively, were in a relationship that evolved into intimacy, resulting in the birth of a child. It recorded that the petitioner is the biological father, a fact that is medically substantiated and undisputed.
Taking into account the financial vulnerability of the young mother and her family, Justice Nagaprasanna observed that the woman had been "thrust prematurely into the responsibilities of motherhood" and was now burdened with unforeseen obligations after the petitioner allegedly reneged on his promise of marriage.
Accordingly, an interim order of stay of further proceedings pending before the VI Additional Principal District and Sessions Court, Mangaluru, was "granted qua the petitioner, subject to a crucial condition that the petitioner, either personally or through his parents, the accused in companion petitions, shall provide financial support to the complainant and the child, in the form of a sum of Rs 75,000 per month, to ensure the sustenance and welfare of the mother and the 10 month old baby, until the final disposal of this petition," the order read.
The first instalment is to be paid within one week, on or before May 1, 2026, and subsequent payments are to be made regularly.
The court further emphasised that although the petitioner is a student, such considerations cannot override the pressing needs of the child and the mother, stating that "justice, in its equitable dimension, demands a balanced approach." It also directed the victim, her family, and relatives to refrain from engaging with the media until the matter reaches its judicial conclusion.
The petition has been tagged with connected matters and is scheduled for further hearing on June 5, 2026.
