Sulaikha muder: Narcoanalysis for brother and land owner
Kochi: The crime branch has decided to make the four suspects in connection with the Sulaikha murder undergo narcoanalysis and polygraph test.
http://insidekerala.com/n/index.php?mod=article&cat=MainNews&article=19678
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Imprisonment for those who take mobile photographs of ladies in train.
Kochi: Those who are addicted to taking photographs of cute ladies and girls in train be careful. What awaits you will be imprisonment up to one year.
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Murder of a youth – friend and wife arrested
Adimali: The police have arrested a youth and his wife in connection with the murder of a youth in Adimali. The body after murder was disposed in a drainage. http://insidekerala.com/n/index.php?mod=article&cat=MainNews&article=19673
Former Kerala minister acquitted of misbehaviour with woman official charge
Thiruvananthapuram, July 22 Former Kerala transport minister A. Neelalohithadasan Nadar was Tuesday acquitted by a fast track court here of charges of sexually harassing a senior woman official in 1999.Nadar had appealed to the court after a lower court found him guilty two years ago and sentenced him to three years imprisonment.
http://insidekerala.com/n/index.php?mod=article&cat=MainNews&article=19680
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Attempt to abuse a ten year old girl: culprit arrested
Vellarada: A person who tried to molest a ten year old girl was arrested by the police. Balaraj alias Raju from Kunnathukal was the person who was arrested for such a heinous crime. His wife is the president of Pulari Self-help orgnisation.
http://insidekerala.com/n/index.php?mod=article&cat=Regional&article=19360
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Poovarani case: More than 100 girls may be trapped
Kottayam: The Crime Branch has come to understand that more than 100 girls in the state had fallen victims to the interstate sex racket that had used the Poovarani girl too. They include minor girls and even housewives. Those who fall victims first are further pushed into the trade by blackmailing them with the porn movie that is created when they fall for the time. The victims are mostly those girls and women who stay away from their homes for studies and work. Girls who act in serials are also made use by them.
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Hartal peaceful in city - News @ July 3rd 2008
KOCHI: The country-wide hartal called by the VHP-BJP combine was near-total and peaceful in the city. With public transportation out of gear, people reached their workplace sharing two-wheelers and cars. The usual bustle of the city was missing.
Only 40 per cent of the staff reported for work at the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation’s bus stand here. However, officials said that long-distance buses to Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram and other places were run. Services within the district like Muvattupuzha and to nearby places like Vaikom were less than usual.
With only a couple of shops around hospitals open, the hartal had affected the business activities in the city and its suburbs.
Hospitals had a thin trickle of patients. There were 365 patients registered in the Out Patient Department at the District General Hospital on Thursday, compared to the daily flow of over 1,000 patients. Five emergency surgeries were also held.
Dr. D. Radhakrishnan, the hospital superintendent said that there was adequate staff as the hospital makes arrangements for bringing in the staff and dropping them off in ambulances.
However, the District Medical Office had low attendance with about 40-45 per cent of staff turning up.
Among the public sectors that employ the largest groups of people, the FACT spokesman said that the functioning of the office was not affected.
In Cochin Shipyard Limited, 72 per cent of the staff had reported for work. It is mostly women who were not able to reach office due to lack of transport, said the public relations officer of the Shipyard.
The Cochin Port Trust had an attendance of 65 per cent of its employees.
Activities inside the port area were not affected, said the public relations officer. Loading and unloading work for ships that berthed here went about as usual, he added. The Collectorate had about 50-55 per cent staff attendance and the BSNL had about 50 per cent staff working on Thursday.
The IT industry had 90 per cent attendance in the companies at Info-Park.
The Wipro General Manager said that the usual attendance is about 95-96 per cent while on Thursday it was about 90 per cent.
Auto fare for the day: Rs. 50 per kilometre
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Passengers relying on Kerala State Road Transport Corporation buses and those forced to depend on autorickshaws for transportation had a harrowing time on Thursday. Most of the buses chose to keep off the road enabling some autorickshaw drivers to rake in some quick buck.
Though the hartal called by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad evoked only partial response in the city with a number of private vehicles, mostly two-wheelers taking the road, office-goers who depended solely on public transport services, were affected.
Jayaraj M., a mechanist at the KSTRC workshop in Pappanamcode, had a taste of his organisation’s own medicine when he was stranded at the Thampanoor bus stand for more than an hour unable to catch a bus to his office.
A resident of Nedumangad, Mr. Jayaraj had reached Thampanoor by hitch-hiking on a two-wheeler. However, devoid of a similar luck with two-wheeler riders here, he finally decided to engage an autorickshaw. “They wanted me pay Rs.50 even for a distance of one kilometre. I did not have an option,” said Mr. Jayaraj.
The autorickshaw drivers on their part exploited the innate fear of passengers by hinting at possible violence by the hartal supporters on the way as means to extract some extra moolah. “Will you pay if someone breaks the windshield of the vehicle?” fumed a driver who refused to give his name.
With the KSRTC suspending most of its long distance services till the hartal deadline in the evening, a few who reached the Thampanoor bus stand in the morning had to return disappointed.
Violence in Kodungalloor
Kodungalloor: Hartal called separately by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday turned violent in Kodungalloor. Many incidents of violence were reported from various parts.
Protesters damaged a statue of Sri Narayana Guru on the Sri Kumara Samajam campus at East Nada. Some media offices were also attacked.
The SNDP has called for hartal in Kodungalloor on Friday.
While the VHP’s hartal was part of the Bharat bandh, the LDF observed the hartal to mourn the death of DYFI Kodungalloor block committee vice-president and Municipal committee secretary K.U. Biju (28).
Suspected BJP activists had assaulted Biju, an employee of the Kodungalloor Vividodhesa Cooperative Society, on Monday. He succumbed to severe head injuries in the hospital on Wednesday.
Police personnel injured during BJP march
Kozhikode: Two personnel attached to the Armed Reserve Police Camp were injured during a march taken out by BJP activists on Tuesday.
They were protesting against the alleged apathy of the district administration in resuming the government land housing the sales and service outlet of Indus Motors owned by Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader and Rajya Sabha MP P.V. Abdul Wahab at Cheruvannur on the outskirts of the city. Head constable Manoj and constable Jabeer were admitted to the Government Beach Hospital. Two buses of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), security cabin and windowpanes of the Indus Motors building were damaged in stone-throwing. The incident took place when a mob threw stones at the police party and the buildings after the march dispersed at 12.15 p.m.
They were protesting against the alleged apathy of the district administration in resuming the government land housing the sales and service outlet of Indus Motors owned by Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader and Rajya Sabha MP P.V. Abdul Wahab at Cheruvannur on the outskirts of the city. Head constable Manoj and constable Jabeer were admitted to the Government Beach Hospital. Two buses of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), security cabin and windowpanes of the Indus Motors building were damaged in stone-throwing. The incident took place when a mob threw stones at the police party and the buildings after the march dispersed at 12.15 p.m.
Malayali priest shot dead in Nepal
Thrissur: Johnson Moylan, a Salesian priest, was shot dead by a gang at Sirsia in Nepal on Tuesday, according to his colleagues with Don Bosco India. He was 60.
Fr. Moylan, who hailed from Ollur here, had been working in Nepal since 1996.
Don Bosco priests said that a five-member gang entered the Mission of the Salesians at Sirsia, locked assistant parish priest Mathew Puthupallil in his room and intruded into Fr. Moylan’s room. When the gang left the place 15 minutes later, Fr. Moylan was found lying in a pool of blood. He was shot in the chest and the stomach. Fr. Mathew called the police for help and alerted his colleagues at Kolkata. The police arrived from Dharan, 45 km from Sirsia, in the morning.
Son of Moylan Rappayi and Rosa of Ollur, Fr. Moylan became a Salesian in 1967. He was ordained priest at the Bangalore Province of the order in 1977. He had served as assistant parish priest in different parts of Andhra Pradesh. He was rector at the Pezzonipet, Cudappa and Hyderabad centres from 1986 to 1994.
Fr. Moylan started centres at Dharan and Sirsia in 1996 and 2000 respectively. Don Bosco priests said that Fr. Moylan’s body would be laid to rest at the Bandel basilica.
Fr. Moylan, who hailed from Ollur here, had been working in Nepal since 1996.
Don Bosco priests said that a five-member gang entered the Mission of the Salesians at Sirsia, locked assistant parish priest Mathew Puthupallil in his room and intruded into Fr. Moylan’s room. When the gang left the place 15 minutes later, Fr. Moylan was found lying in a pool of blood. He was shot in the chest and the stomach. Fr. Mathew called the police for help and alerted his colleagues at Kolkata. The police arrived from Dharan, 45 km from Sirsia, in the morning.
Son of Moylan Rappayi and Rosa of Ollur, Fr. Moylan became a Salesian in 1967. He was ordained priest at the Bangalore Province of the order in 1977. He had served as assistant parish priest in different parts of Andhra Pradesh. He was rector at the Pezzonipet, Cudappa and Hyderabad centres from 1986 to 1994.
Fr. Moylan started centres at Dharan and Sirsia in 1996 and 2000 respectively. Don Bosco priests said that Fr. Moylan’s body would be laid to rest at the Bandel basilica.
Bad road: bus service suspended
Kozhikode: Various organisations have joined the protest against the delay in resurfacing roads dug up for laying pipes for the Japan-aided drinking water scheme in the district.
The roads have turned into swamps in the rain.
The District Bus Operators Organisation suspended its services in the Balussery-Kurachund route in the district from Tuesday owing to the pitiable condition of the roads there.
The roads have turned into swamps in the rain.
The District Bus Operators Organisation suspended its services in the Balussery-Kurachund route in the district from Tuesday owing to the pitiable condition of the roads there.
NDF: murders betray CPI(M) intolerance
KANNUR: The National Development Front (NDF) alleged that the killing of two of its workers in the district by workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) betrays the latter’s organisational intolerance and its attitude of dominance.
Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, NDF general secretary P. Abdul Majeed Faizi said that NDF workers Muhammad Fasal and Zainuddin had been killed at Thalassery and Kakkayangad over a period of 18 months. Both had been done to death without any provocation as neither of them had attacked CPI(M) workers. Urging the CPI(M) leadership to explain what crime the two had committed that had provoked its cadres to kill them, Mr. Faizi said the latest killing at Kakkayangad was in defiance of the CPI(M)’s own declaration of peace in the presence of Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in the wake of the outbreak of political killings by CPI(M) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers. The murder of Zainuddin had been carried out with full knowledge and consent of the party, he said adding that these attacks were taking place in the home district of Mr. Balakrishnan and party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan.
Mr. Faizi asked CPI(M) leaders to make clear what the NDF should do to stop its workers being killed. He also alleged that the CPI(M)’s charge that its workers arrested in the Zainuddin murder case had been beaten up by the police was pressure tactics to subvert the police investigation. The CPI(M) had earlier denied the police of its professional freedom during the investigation into the Fasal murder case, he added. NDF zonal convener R.M. Abdurrahim and division convener K.K. Hisham also were present at the press meet.
Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, NDF general secretary P. Abdul Majeed Faizi said that NDF workers Muhammad Fasal and Zainuddin had been killed at Thalassery and Kakkayangad over a period of 18 months. Both had been done to death without any provocation as neither of them had attacked CPI(M) workers. Urging the CPI(M) leadership to explain what crime the two had committed that had provoked its cadres to kill them, Mr. Faizi said the latest killing at Kakkayangad was in defiance of the CPI(M)’s own declaration of peace in the presence of Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan in the wake of the outbreak of political killings by CPI(M) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers. The murder of Zainuddin had been carried out with full knowledge and consent of the party, he said adding that these attacks were taking place in the home district of Mr. Balakrishnan and party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan.
Mr. Faizi asked CPI(M) leaders to make clear what the NDF should do to stop its workers being killed. He also alleged that the CPI(M)’s charge that its workers arrested in the Zainuddin murder case had been beaten up by the police was pressure tactics to subvert the police investigation. The CPI(M) had earlier denied the police of its professional freedom during the investigation into the Fasal murder case, he added. NDF zonal convener R.M. Abdurrahim and division convener K.K. Hisham also were present at the press meet.
CBI files report on Abhaya case
Kochi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed in a sealed cover a report on the progress of the investigation in the Sister Abhaya death case.
Justice V. Ramkumar had earlier directed the CBI to submit the progress report when a petition filed by Thomas, father of Sister Abhaya, seeking to expedite the investigation came up for hearing.
The body of the 21-year-old inmate of a convent hostel in Kottayam, was found in March 1992 in the well on the convent premises.
While taking the report on record, the court orally observed that the investigation seemed to be a never-ending process. The CBI, being the premier investigation agency, should try to keep up its credibility, the court observed. The court also orally observed that the agency should take steps to complete the investigation forthwith.
Justice V. Ramkumar had earlier directed the CBI to submit the progress report when a petition filed by Thomas, father of Sister Abhaya, seeking to expedite the investigation came up for hearing.
The body of the 21-year-old inmate of a convent hostel in Kottayam, was found in March 1992 in the well on the convent premises.
While taking the report on record, the court orally observed that the investigation seemed to be a never-ending process. The CBI, being the premier investigation agency, should try to keep up its credibility, the court observed. The court also orally observed that the agency should take steps to complete the investigation forthwith.
Protest against Minister’s remark
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Xavy Mano Mathew, proprietor of the Merchiston tea estate at Ponmudi, has alleged that Forest Minister Benoy Viswom is nursing a “personal grudge” against him.
At a press conference held in the city on Tuesday, Mr. Mathew protested against a remark made by the Minister in the Assembly recently in connection with the purchase of his estate. The Minister, describing the Opposition as “friends of Xavy Mano Mathew,” had said that Mr. Mathew had purchased the estate from Jayasree Tea and Industries Limited when the UDF was in power in the State. The sale was registered despite the area being notified as an ecologically fragile land, the Minister had said.
Mr. Mathew said he had all the required documents with him to prove his ownership over the estate.
At a press conference held in the city on Tuesday, Mr. Mathew protested against a remark made by the Minister in the Assembly recently in connection with the purchase of his estate. The Minister, describing the Opposition as “friends of Xavy Mano Mathew,” had said that Mr. Mathew had purchased the estate from Jayasree Tea and Industries Limited when the UDF was in power in the State. The sale was registered despite the area being notified as an ecologically fragile land, the Minister had said.
Mr. Mathew said he had all the required documents with him to prove his ownership over the estate.
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