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Bajaj sugar mills owe crores of rupees to sugarcane farmers. Is this why Rahul Bajaj ‘afraid’?

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Bajaj sugar mills owe crores of rupees to sugarcane farmers. Is this why Rahul Bajaj ‘afraid’?

In an event organised by the Times Group, industrialist Rahul Bajaj told Home Minister Amit Shah that people are afraid to criticise the government. The Bajaj family is ranked 11th on the Forbes list of richest Indians at net worth of USD 9.2 billion. Home Minister Amit Shah dismissed his apprehensions and said how his fears are unfounded. Opposition leaders used Bajaj’s statements to target the BJP. A section of media also clung on to the ‘atmosphere of fear’ narrative and piggybacked on Bajaj’s statement.

But, amidst all this, Bajaj found himself surrounded by some questions. While he has earlier praised Rahul Gandhi, the allegations this time around are quite serious. BJP MP from Lakhmipur Kheri Ajay Mishra has made some important revelations. Lakhmipur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh which is very close to the Nepal border is known for sugarcane production. There are 10 big sugar mills. Of these, 3 mills belong to the Bajaj family.

Rahul Bajaj has been Rajya Sabha MP as well. As soon as Mishra started speaking on Bajaj, the opposition leaders started creating a ruckus. Mishra said if the opposition parties can put allegations on the BJP by taking name of Bajaj, he could also take up his name. He made a shocking disclosure that the sugar mills owned by Bajaj family owe as much as Rs 10,000 crore to the sugarcane farmers since last two years.

Opposition leaders created more ruckus in support of Bajaj but Meenakshi Lekhi, who was in the chair, asked them to stay quiet. She said that whatever Mishra is saying should be allowed to be put up. “Why are you defending an industrialist? Let it be on record which can be verified,” she said. Mishra then said he is an MP of that region and knows about the ordeals faced by farmers from that region. He added that the current government is trying to get the farmers their dues and hence Bajaj is giving statements opposing the government.

He further added that Uttar Pradesh chief minister is strict when it comes to the sugar mills and the farmers. Actions are being taken against mill owners who are not paying their dues to the farmers. In such a case, the person who owns three sugar mills will have fears. “All those who are involved in wrong things are afraid. They should be afraid too. The administration is keeping an eye on the sugar mils of Rahul Bajaj and pays a visit every three months,” he said.

Some opposition leaders argued that the management of the sugar mills have changed. Mishra argued that change in name or management will not correct the wrong things because even now the mills are being run by Rahul Bajaj’s son. (Perhaps the MP mistook Kushagra Bajaj for Rahul Bajaj’s son, but he is in fact his nephew.)

Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Limited (BHSL) is one of the largest sugar mills in India. Earlier it was Hindusthan Sugar Mills Limited. It was founded by Jamnalal Bajaj in 1931. In 1988, the name was changed to Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Limited. Kushagra Bajaj is the Chairman and Managing Director. He is son of Shishir Bajaj, Rahul Bajaj’s brother. In all of UP, the Bajajs own 14 sugar mills.

This is not the first time allegations of not paying farmers their due have been put up against the Bajajs. In 2018, Amar Ujala had published a report which stated that because of non-payment of dues by Bajajs, the farmers are going through a lot of hardships. Till February 2018, in the sugar mills in Golagorakhnath, Palia Kalan and Khambhar khera owed Rs 473 crore to farmers. As per a report by Dainik Jagran, all three mills have had lapses in making payment to the farmers. According to this report, the sugar mills owe the farmers Rs 800 crore. While Rahul and Shishir Bajaj are brothers, the businesses are separate. Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd is managed by Shishir’s son, Kushagra, as mentioned above.

This report was originally published in Hindi. You could read it here.

Are Bloomberg and Quint set to part ways after Raghav Bahl failed to get a TV license?

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Are Bloomberg and Quint set to part ways after Raghav Bahl failed to get a TV license?

Trouble seems to be brewing in paradise as MoneyControl has reported that Bloomberg LP’s joint venture with Raghav Bahl’s Quintillion Media is sailing on troubled water. According to the Money Control report, Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is all set to break the news and data partnership with Quint which is run by Raghav Bahl.

According to the report, Bloomberg is now approaching other media organisations for a tie-up in the hopes of starting a news channel, which will be Bloomberg’s third attempt in India. Bloomberg’s two previous attempts at operating a business TV channel in India, the first with Ronnie Screwvala’s UTV and later with the Anil Ambani group failed.

According to the report in Money Control, Raghav Bahl’s inability to acquire a television license despite trying for it since 2016 and the charges of tax evasion and bribery against Bahl have rattled the Bloomberg LP founder. Bloomberg presumably wants to keep a clean record since he is hoping the become the Democratic nominee for the President of the USA elections against Donald Trump in 2020.

Read: Allahabad High Court dismisses The Quint founder Raghav Bahl’s writ petition challenging IT-Dept’s action against him

In 2016, Raghav Bahl had applied for a broadcasting license which was summarily rejected by the Indian government. Several reports indicate that the government had rejected the license due to lack of clarity in the application and several security concerns.

After the Indian government refused to grant the broadcasting license, Raghav Bahl tried to be clever by half and decided to buy a shell company – Horizon Satellite Services – that held a news broadcasting licence. His plan was to seek government permission to reboot Horizon, change its name and the board of directors and relaunch it as BloombergQuint, reported Money Control. However, the Indian government rejected this route as well since the security concerns persisted and Bahl was also embroiled in charges of tax evasion.

Bloomberg and Quint had come together to launch a 24/7 Business News Channel. However, that plan has seen no progress in the past two years. Two years ago, Bloomberg and Quint had entered into a 26:74 joint venture and had done a soft launch of their digital news channel. However, since then, the broadcasting license had alluded Bahl. There are now rumours that due to falling out of this Joint Venture, Bahl has had to trim operations and delay vesting of stock options and increments this year.

Read: Enforcement Directorate files case against media baron Raghav Bahl under PMLA for undeclared foreign assets

Answering the Money Control, Raghav Bahl was extremely caustic in his email. “It seems to be at the behest of vested interests who are apparently resentful of the success of BloombergQuint, which has created a strong footprint in the digital space. We are confident that as soon as our broadcast licence is approved, we shall replicate that success in the broadcast market and go further. Since the content of your mail lacks credence and is motivated by vested interests, we do not wish to state anything further”, Bahl said in his email response.

It is pertinent to note here that Raghav Bahl was the owner of TV18 earlier which owned MoneyControl too. Later, the company was acquired by the Ambanis. With all of the history, one has to wonder if Raghav Bahl ended up overselling his capabilities to acquire a broadcasting license which after falling through, ended up affected the prospects of the JV between Bloomberg LP and Quint.

Ahmedabad: Congress MLA’s speeding car kills man, he claims it was his driver behind the wheels

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Ahmedabad: Congress MLA’s speeding car kills man, he claims it was his driver behind the wheels

A 47-year-old man was killed after Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar’s speeding car knocked down his scooter on Monday night on the road near the Gokul Row House area in Memnagar, Ahmedabad West.

The victim Prafulbhai Patel, who was on his way to bring his son back from tuition classes was riding his Honda Activa when the four-wheeler which was at a suspected speed of over 100 km/hr hit the scooter from behind. The victim died on the spot of serious head and body injuries.

The car was registered in the name of Parmar, who represents Danilimda(SC) constituency in the city.

On hearing about the incident, traffic police ‘A’ division police inspector, PB Khambhla, arrived with his officials and sent the body of the victim to the hospital for post mortem.

While family members of the deceased alleged that Parmar’s son was driving the car, the police and the MLA, who remained unreachable for the media until the next morning, later informed that his driver Devendra Bhavsar aka Lalabhai was behind the wheels.

The Congress MLA further told the police, who had reached the MLAs house to take his statement almost 15 hours after the incident took place, that both, his Innova car which was involved in the accident and his driver were missing after the mishap.

“I got to know about the accident nearly an hour-and-a-half after it took place last night. I spoke to the deceased’s family later on phone and assured them of my full support,” Parmar said.

“I will help police in the investigation. It was our driver, Dharmesh Bhavsar, who was behind the wheels,” he added.

Police have said that preliminary investigations have revealed that Bhavsar was driving the car and was alone in the vehicle when the accident took place, adding that the CCTV footage from the area of crime was being analysed.

Irate Pakistanis attack Dawn newspaper for reporting that London jihadist had Pakistani origins

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Irate Pakistanis attack Dawn newspaper for reporting that London jihadist had Pakistani origins

The office of the Pakistani newspaper ‘The Dawn’ came under attack as hundreds of angry Pakistanis swelled around the office premises, blocking the entry and the exit, for reporting that the accused involved in the London Bridge attack had Pakistani origins.


The disgruntled people contended that the Dawn Newspaper has incorrectly claimed that the perpetrator of the London Bridge attack had Pakistani roots. Many on Twitter too hailed the attack on the Dawn claiming that Usman had no connection with Pakistan and the newspaper was simply besmirching the reputation of the country by linking the London Bridge attacker with Pakistan.

According to the report published in the Dawn, Khan is a British citizen born in the UK and of Pakistani origin. He left school with no qualifications after spending part of his late teens in Pakistan, where he lived with his mother when she became ill.​ After returning to the UK, he partook in promulgating extremism on the Internet and garnered a significant following.

Read- London: Pakistani mob led by British Labour MP attacks Indian High Commission, smash windows

However, this intricate detail was lost on indignant Pakistanis who claimed that since Usman was born and brought up in England, he cannot have Pakistani origins. Some other Pakistani Twitter users claimed that the Dawn is a propagandist media house that stands with the enemies of Pakistan.


If attacking the newspaper ‘The Dawn’ wasn’t enough, incensed Pakistani Twitter users identified the journalist who reported that Usman Khan had Pakistani roots and unleashed an online mob on her. The user insinuated that the journalist worked on someone else’s payroll and there should be an investigation commissioned to find out from whom did she take the instructions to paint a British citizen as Pakistani.


Pakistanis have been embarrassed by the fact that any terror incident that happens anywhere across the globe inevitably finds its roots to Pakistan. It is to avoid this embarrassment that the Pakistani Twitter users, instead of taking their government to task for facilitating terrorists and their activities, have indulged in attacking the newspaper that acquaints them with the uncomfortable truth about their country.

If you were ‘ashamed as a society’ after the Hyderabad rape and murder, you are part of the problem

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If you were ‘ashamed as a society’ after the Hyderabad rape and murder, you are part of the problem

The nation has been mourning the brutal rape and murder of Dr Preeti Reddy (name changed) in Hyderabad. The grief has given way to insurmountable anger and many have come out to say that they are ‘ashamed as a society’. While the sentiment is understandable, is this reaction justified?

When people say that they are ‘ashamed as a society’ when a gruesome incident like this happens, they are intentionally or unintentionally diluting the crime of those who committed it. Why should society share the burden of a crime? Crores of people all over the world face social inequality, injustice, unfair circumstances and hardship. How many of them turn criminals? From Abdul Kalam to Oprah Winfrey to a ragpicker’s son who cleared AIIMS last year in Madhya Pradesh, we’ve lakhs of examples of people using their hardship as strength to achieve success in life. Did Jews or Kashmiri Pandits became terrorists after what they faced?

Read: The Quint continues their ‘humanising’ project by whitewashing and creating sympathy wave for Hyderabad rape and murder accused

Be it terror attack or rape or murder, every time a crime happens, our media goes into socio-economic detailing of criminals to project them as victims. From Headmaster’s son Burhan Wani to Pulwama attacker was told to do push up by Indian Army during his school days to London attacker was bullied in school, the list is endless. This is how communists dilute a crime and portray the perpetrator of a heinous crime as a victim of social circumstances through their ecosystem for political gains.

The Quint wrote a very emotive article about Hyderabad rape case’s main accused Mohammad Arif. They wrote at length about how he is the sole breadwinner for the poor family, how he worked hard to pay for his mother’s illness, how his father is disabled, etc etc. All these are conscious attempts to create public sympathy the main accused. Same people will later file mercy petition for him and his other four accomplices.

Read: Reports suggest she was raped even after she was killed, chilling details of the Hyderabad gang-rape case emerge

The first reaction of the “woke” when a heinous crime happens is equally problematic. While the rage is justified, instead of having a nuanced discussion and trying to figure out the solution to the problem, their first reaction is to blame the patriarchy. While patriarchy is undoubtedly an issue, mindlessly connecting to rapes in the country is counterproductive. There are several countries like the middle east where the patriarchy is more embedded in the society than in India, however, the rapes in those countries are fewer.

So what causes rapes? Imagine this hypothetical situation, take 100 kids and make them grow in the same society under the same hardships and injustice and away from the influence of each other. Will all 100 of these turn criminals when they grow up? Some may, most won’t. Only those who are unfit to adjust to society resort to crimes and hence such people are not fit to be a part of the society and there comes the need for a robust and prompt judicial system.

Read: Legalising prostitution or pornography will not bring down rapes. This is why the argument is flawed

Think about yourself for another example. Suppose you lose everything that you have. The job, bank balance, house. You go bankrupt and live off the streets. Will you still even think of behaving indecently with a woman, leave aside rape? Probably not. I won’t. Can never even think of it. But if someone has a mindset of a rapist, he’ll rape even if he gets all the luxuries a man can possibly possess.

To bring social circumstances into crimes is turning the criminal into the victim. Crimes are individual responsibility and society should not share its burden. The society, on the whole, does need to change to facilitate principles like respect for women, equal responsibility and the mindset that women are in no way inferior to men. However, the burden of guilt needs to rest with the criminal and his family. The burden of guilt, once shifted to the society, almost lessens the burden the criminal himself must carry for the rest of his life. The culprit should be punished in the worst possible manner so that other potential criminals think thousand times before attempting one themselves.

Meet Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai-based IT professional who helped NASA detect Vikram lander on Moon

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Meet Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai-based IT professional who helped NASA detect Vikram lander on Moon

Almost after three months since it went incommunicado during the final stages of the Chandrayaan 2 mission on September 7, the NASA has finally located ISRO’s Vikram Lander on the moon surface. And the man behind the unravelling of the biggest mystery in India space history is a 33-year-old space enthusiast who worked independently and found the debris of the Vikram lander on the surface of the Moon, that several scientists have been painstakingly looking for.

NASA has credited Shanmuga Subramanian (Shan), a mechanical engineer and a computer programmer based in Chennai, for helping it find ISRO’s Vikram Moon lander debris on the lunar surface.

In a post on its website early on Tuesday, NASA has said its moon mission has discovered the remains of India’s Vikram Lander and identified the debris spotted by Subramanian with an “S” on its image.


According to NASA, it’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) had released the first set of pictures of the Vikram lander contact site on September 26 and many people had downloaded the mosaic to search for signs of Vikram and Shanmuga was one of them.

Shanmuga Subramanian, hailing from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, works as an app developer at engineering company Lennox India Technology Centre in Chennai. He is an engineering graduate from the Government Engineering College in Tirunelvelli.

The techie from Chennai told IANS on Tuesday: “It was something challenging as even NASA can’t find out so why can’t we try out? And that’s the thought that led me to search for Vikram lander.”

Equipped with just his laptop, Subramanian said he worked for up to seven hours every day in his Chennai apartment in his mission to locate the lander. “I narrowed my search to 2 square kilometres. I used only a laptop and searched all the images,” he said.

During the random searches at his spare time, Shanmuga noticed a white speck around the Moon touchdown site pictures released by NASA. This bright pixel, he said, was not visible in earlier images released by the space agency.

“Is This Vikram Lander? (1 Km From The Landing Spot) Lander Might Have Been Buried In Lunar Sand?” Mr  Subramanian had tweeted on October 3, tagging NASA and ISRO.


On November 17, he tweeted more details with two images of the crash site.


“I had a side-by-side comparison of those two images on two of my laptops… on one side there was the old image, and another side there was the new image released by NASA,” he told a news agency. Subramanian also said that he was helped by other users on Twitter and Reddit.

Subramaniam was the first person to come up with positive identification. The Chennai-based technologist discovered debris about 750 m from the main crash site of the lander and informed NASA from whom he got a ‘good response’ said the engineer. “I did send a tweet to NASA and ISRO. I sent emails to a couple of NASA scientists. They were in charge of the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) images. I got a good response from them,” said Subramaniam.

Read: ISRO plans to launch spy satellite RISAT 2BR1, India’s ‘eye in the sky’ to boost surveillance

Finally, almost after 3 months, NASA confirmed the Vikram lander debris location by comparing before and after images and credited Shanmuga for the same.

LRO Project Scientist Noah Petro said: “The story of this really amazing individual (who) found it, helped us find it, is really awesome,” adding that “He (Subramaniam) went through the image, looking pixel by pixel and found that spot.”

Thanking Subramanian for an interesting observation, Nasa’s deputy project scientist (LRO mission) John Keller said its LROC team confirmed that location did exhibit changes in images taken before and after the day of landing. “Using this information the LROC team did additional searches in this area and located the site of the primary impact as well as other debris around the impact location,” Keller wrote to Subramanian.

He also appreciated Shanmuga for his efforts. “Congratulations for what I am sure was a lot of time and effort on your part. You will probably get some enquiries from the press on your discovery.”


The Chandrayaan 2 mission, besides carrying an orbiter, had a rover and a lander, targetting safe touchdown on the surface of the moon through a controlled descent. Pragyan, the rover, was slated to roll out of the Lander onto the surface of the moon to conduct experiments and gather data.

On 7th September, Chandrayaan-2’s landing module had gone silent after Vikram Lander lost connection when it was merely 2 KMs from the landing surface of the moon. While ISRO was able to locate the lunar module in one piece, it had tiled a little because of the hard landing. On September 10, ISRO had announced that it had located the Lander but no communication has been established yet.

Robert Vadra equates ‘security breach’ at Priyanka Vadra’s home with sex crimes, claims security in entire country compromised

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Robert Vadra equates ‘security breach’ at Priyanka Vadra’s home with sex crimes, claims security in entire country compromised

Robert Vadra, son-in-law of the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar, in a shocking display of insensitivity, has compared the brutality of sex crimes with an alleged security breach at his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s home. In a Facebook post, Robert Vadra engaged in the politicization of sex crimes and appeared to blame the central government for the crimes although law and order is a state subject.

Robert Vadra’s Facebook post comparing ‘security breach’ to sex crimes in India

Priyanka Gandhi’s husband wrote on Facebook, “Its not about the security for Priyanka, my daughter and son or me or the Gandhi family.. It’s about keeping our citizens especially the women of our country, safe & secure. Security throughout the country is compromised… Girls are being molested/raped, What society are we creating…? Security of every citizen is the Government’s responsibility. If we are not safe in our own country, our homes, not safe on roads, not safe in the day or at night, where and when are we safe ?”

The alleged security breach at Priyanka Gandhi’s home involved a car with five passengers managing to enter her residence and going up to her to click pictures. As serious as it might be, and a complaint has been lodged with the CRPF in this regard, it is extremely insensitive to compare it with sex crimes happening around the country. Moreover, Priyanka Gandhi does have a Z-plus security cover that includes CRPF commandos in her security detail. Incompetence on the part of the men responsible for her security cannot and should not be used to target the government.

Read: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra continues to stay in govt accommodation despite removal of SPG cover

Quite clearly, contrary to what they might claim, the government had very good reasons to withdraw SPG cover. The alleged breach at Priyanka Gandhi’s home is now being used to claim that it happened because the SPG cover was withdrawn although there’s no good reason to claim such a thing.

On top of it, Robert Vadra, whose stature within the Congress party keeps changing between ‘private citizen’ and ‘Official Daamad’, has gone ahead and equated the matter with crimes as heinous as rapes and molestation. The Congress party appears to have lost its moral compass and is clutching at straws. In recent times, most of their attacks on the government have been a consequence of opposition for the sake of it. And now, it appears that they are willing to politicize even rapes in the most indecent manner imaginable in order to settle personal scores with the government.

Worst of all, as it turns out, it might not even have been a ‘security breach’ as claimed by the Congress party and their daamad. Times Now reported that the occupants of the car were long term Congress loyalists. Not merely that, a woman who was among the occupants had even contested elections on Congress ticket. Furthermore, it was the Personal Assistant of Priyanka Gandhi who reportedly summoned them to her residence. Under such circumstances, the bogey of ‘security breach’ that was created appears to be standing on extremely thin ice.

Thus, in equating such a dubious incident with sex crimes, the Congress party has only revealed the moral depravity that has taken over the party. It also demonstrates perfectly why the party has suffered devastating electoral defeats in recent times and is under serious threat of becoming irrelevant in national-level politics. The party needs to engage in some introspection over the sort of politics it is practising, otherwise, it’s future looks even bleaker than it does now.

Priyanka Gandhi’s ‘security breach’: Occupants of the car long time Congress loyalists, woman fought elections on Congress ticket

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Priyanka Gandhi’s ‘security breach’: Occupants of the car long time Congress loyalists, woman fought elections on Congress ticket

Hours after Congress targeted the BJP Government over the alleged security breach at Priyanka Gandhi’s residence and put the blame on removal of SPG security cover, it has been revealed that the people involved are, in fact, long-time Congress loyalists.


The owner of the car, Chandrashekhar Tyagi, told Times Now that they are loyalists of the Congress party and went to seek some time for themselves from Priyanka Gandhi whose responsibilities within the Congress party have increased manifold in recent times. She is also considered by some as the potential successor to interim president Sonia Gandhi.

Furthermore, one of the occupants of the car is reportedly a woman member of the Congress party and has even contested elections on the party’s ticket. Thus, while the security was indeed lapse in allowing the the car to enter Priyanka Gandhi’s residence without any security-check, the possibility that the occupants’ membership of the Congress party contributed to the lapse in security cannot be rejected entirely.

Read: New Delhi: Congress party leader chants ‘Priyanka Chopra Zindabad’ instead of Priyanka Gandhi

It also raises questions on whether the entire controversy was created on purpose by the Congress party in order to target the government over their decision to remove the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar’s security cover. Times Now has also revealed that the occupants personally talked to Priyanka Gandhi’s personal assistant two days prior to the incident and they were summoned to her residence. As Times Now correctly points out, the fact that the occupants of the car had contact details of Priyanka Gandhi’s personal assistant shows that people close to Priyanka Gandhi were well acquainted with them.


The only thing that remains to be investigated now is why was the car not checked by the men charged with Priyanka Gandhi’s security. Was it because they were told not to check the particular car by Priyanka Gandhi or her close associates? Or was it a consequence of a lapse in security? Such questions remain unanswered. However, the Congress party’s charge at the government appears to be on thin ice at the moment.

Karnataka: 35-year-old arrested after body of 9-year-old found near canal, police suspect sexual abuse

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Karnataka: 35-year-old arrested after body of 9-year-old found near canal, police suspect sexual abuse

Days after the country was shaken by the horrific rape and murder of the veterinary doctor in Hyderabad, another horrifying atrocity involving a 9-year-old girl has come to the fore. The girl, who was studying in the second standard, was found murdered after allegedly being raped in Yakapur village in Chincholi Taluk of the district on Monday.


The 35-year-old accused, Yallapa, was arrested by the police. Locals had reported that he was seen with the girl before she went missing. The accused had allegedly lured the victim by promising to buy chocolates. The girl had reportedly left for school but remained absent.

However, when the girl did not return home, anxious parents started searching for their daughter. When they asked Yallapa about their daughter’s whereabouts, he dodged the question saying he was not aware of her. The parents filed a complaint at the Sulepet police station following which they launched a search operation to locate the girl.

The villagers found the body of the girl late evening in the canal of Mullamari irrigation project located behind the Anganwadi centre of the village. The police have sent the body for post mortem. Besides, the innerwear of the accused was recovered from the site which bore the marks of bleeding.

The police believe that the victim was allegedly raped before being murdered. They have launched an investigation into the matter and arrested the accused who was last seen with the victim. From the preliminary investigation, it had appeared that the girl may have been strangulated, but the police have said they will confirm after the post-mortem report.

The recent incidents of rape and murder have created a lot of outrage nationwide, especially after the Hyderabad rape and murder incident. There are demands to ensure stringent and immediate punishment in such cases.

Uttar Pradesh: Four minors arrested and sent to Juvenile Home for attempting to sodomise a 12-year-old boy

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Uttar Pradesh: Four minors arrested and sent to Juvenile Home for attempting to sodomise a 12-year-old boy

The Uttar Pradesh police have apprehended four juveniles in Shamli district for attempting to sodomise a 12-year-old boy. All the four accused are aged between 12 to 15, confirmed UP police.

According to the report by PTI, the minor victim was playing outside his house when the accused, who were his neighbours, approached him and asked him to come with them. The accused, then took him to a vacant plot where they tried to sodomise the victim. They fled after the boy fell unconscious. Later, the boy was found by his family, the police said.

The Shamli police confirmed that a case has been registered against the four juveniles and they were apprehended. They were sent to a juvenile home after medical examination, they said.

Read: Legalising prostitution or pornography will not bring down rapes. This is why the argument is flawed

In October this year, a 13-year-old boy was murdered in Bareilly by someone who attempted to sodomize him. The police had started investigating after his family lodged a missing complaint. A few hours later, his body was recovered at a deserted spot outside his village.

Similarly, in July, 34-year-old Sikandar Khan alias Kale Khan alias Jeevanu has been arrested by Jaipur Police from Kota for raping a seven-year-old girl in Jaipur. His interrogation has revealed that he has earlier sodomised at least 25 minors in the past.

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