Man kills girl over ‘honour’
Mahender Adepu | DC
Khammam: In a suspected case of “honour killing”, a man allegedly bludgeoned his 20-year-old daughter to death, convinced that she was having an affair with a youth at M. Venkatayapalem village, near Khammam on Saturday.
Konda Chandraiah, a tailor, was at loggerheads with Mamata, a second year degree student, for rejecting all the alliances brought by him.
Rejecting marriage cost her life
Nursing a grudge against his daughter for turning all the marriage alliances brought by him, Konda Chandraiah, a tailor, clubbed the head of Mamata with an axe in the wee hours, when she was fast asleep. Mamata died on the spot.
Later, Chandraiah fled from the scene. When asked, his wife Satyamma claimed to be totally unaware of what had happened as she had been fast asleep at the time. Deputy superintendent of police Balakishan Rao, rural inspector Tirupati Reddy and sub-inspector Nagaraju visited the scene of the crime and sent the body to Khammam government hospital for a post-mortem.
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Missing girl’s body found under neighbour’s sink
Sivagangai: More than a month after an eight-year-old girl went missing, officials today exhumed her body under the sink of the kitchen of her neighbour.
Revenue and police officials demolished the sink after people in the area raised suspicion about the foul smell coming from the neighbouring house and complained to pol­ice, who noticed new construction un­der the sink.
Tahsildhar Kurichi Muthu and Inspector Sivakumar said the body of the girl was found in sitting posture bound with steel wire. The neighbour Amalraj, who was running a tea shop, was absconding for the last few weeks.
Police said the mother of the girl had taken her daughter, who had some congenital problem, to the nearby street tap for bathing on June five. As she forgot to take the soap, she went back to her house leaving the child.
However, when she came back, she noticed that her daughter was missing and she informed the people in the area and lodged a police complaint.
Next: 10 held in Chakra fraud

10 held in Chakra fraud
Visakhapatnam: City police on Saturday busted a major chit fund racket arresting 10 fraudsters involved in the multi-crore scam.
Those arrested also included directors of the chit fund company—Sri Chakra Gold Farms and Villas (India) Private Limited. The company ran illegal money circulation schemes by violating the RBI (Reserve Bank Of India) regulations and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
The kingpin of the racket D. Narendra is still at large, the police said. Commissioner of Police, B. Shivadhar Reddy told media persons that the chit fund company had also been charged with violating the provisions of the Registrar of Companies Act.
According to him, the fraudsters swindled 32,000 gullible people of about Rs 15.18 crore. The police also seized two Tata Indica Vista cars and original un-registered agreements from the company premises.
It also had its branches elsewhere in Andhra Pradesh and at Ballery in neighbouring Karnataka. Reddy said the management of the company defrauded people in the name of the daily, monthly and fixed deposit schemes.
Those arrested are the company’s managing directors D. Aruna Devi and N. Anil kumar, V. Suresh Kumar and marketing directors B. Maheswar Reddy, D.Lova Raju, SV Krishna Rao, G Dhanraj, K Ravindranath, Chepala Padmavathi and Ch Shanmukha. They were booked under various sections of IPC.
The police said that the company also started Sthirasthi Chitfund Private Ltd and also a shopping establishment - Sri Chakra Shopping mall to project their business in Visakhapatnam.
Next: Illegal arms’ cache found

Illegal arms’ cache found
Hyderabad: City police on Saturday arrested three private security guards and recovered from them a huge cache of illegal firearms and other weapons besides fake arms licences.
One of the accused, Ravinder Prasad, 36, a native of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and a resident of R.K. Puram in the city, prepared fake arms licences and distributed them among nine persons in the city. The other two accused, who received the fake certificates — Ranjit Kumar, 30, a guard at an Airtel office, Uppal, and Sudhama Prasad, 38, security guards in Jai Sai Security Services — are also from Gorakhpur.
Police raided their residences and seized six fire arms including five double-barrel breech loading guns, 24 live cartridges, three fake arm licences, eight fake rubber stamps of various dignitaries, and other relevant materials.
Officials of Commissioner’s Task Force, North Zone, who nabbed the trio, said the accused used fake licences since it’s difficult to get the original licences. Prasad, an employee of Running Raj Security Services, prepared fake rubber stamps of higher officials from all over the country.
“He forged the documents and prepared the licences with fake stamps,” Task Force, North Zone inspector A.P. Anand Kumar said. He added, Ravinder sold fake licences to nine people for Rs 10,000 each.”
Next: Muthoot official arrested

Muthoot official arrested
Hyderabad: A Muthoot Finance Corporation’s former branch manager (of Gaddiannaram branch) cheated the company by stealing mortgaged gold ornaments from the company locker.
Saidabad police arrested the manager, D. Anil Kumar, 35, on Saturday following a complaint from his higher official. Cops said Anil Kumar took away 27-tola gold ornaments from the locker in his own office.
Anil Kumar, who is a native of Mancherial of Adilabad district, stole the gold ornaments on May 31 and went missing. “He took the gold, which was mortgaged by a client. When his superiors tried to contact him, he remained unavailable. We suspect he was trying to earn money by misappropriating the property,” said Saidabad crime inspector J. Venkateswara Rao.
Regional manager of Muthoot, Aditya, lodged a complaint with the police after the incident. Police tracked down the accused in the city and apprehended him. Police have recovered the entire booty. Cases against the accused Anil Kumar were registered under IPC Sections 420 for cheating, and 408 for criminal breach of trust.
Next: Red sanders logs seized

Red sanders logs seized
Hyderabad: Red sanders being smuggled into the city was seized at Shadnagar here during checks conducted by the police and forest officials on Friday. Red sander logs worth lakhs of rupees were hidden among plantain load.
According to the Shadnagar police, acting on a tip-off, the lorry was intercepted and checked. Probe is on.
Next: 40-tola gold looted

40-tola gold looted
Hyderabad: Burglars made away with nearly 40-tola gold ornaments and Rs 3 lakh in cash from a house in Ganeshnagar, Chatrinaka, in the early hours of Saturday. The house belonged to one Gopal Rao who runs provisional stores.
Rao had saved the cash for his wife’s treatment. He was sleeping in the ground floor when the burglars broke into the first floor of his house. According to the police, Rao had locked up the first floor of the house and had gone to the ground floor to sleep at night. The burglars had entered the house by breaking open the lock.
Based on a complaint lodged by the victim, a case has been registered and is being investigated.
Next: Techie dies of burns

Techie dies of burns
Hyderabad: The techie, who had attempted suicide by setting himself ablaze in front of a young woman’s residence in Kukatpally on Thursday, succumbed to the burns on Saturday after three days of treatment.
Alok Jaiswal, 25, was depressed as his proposal was rejected by the girl he liked. Jaiswal had received 60 per cent burn injuries. He was a resident of Upper Dhoolpet in Mangalghat. The deceased knew the girl from his days in the Vardhaman Engineering College.
He had proposed her in college as well. Even later, when both of them started working for reputed private companies in the city, Jaiswal kept proposing her. The girl had never accepted his proposal.
Next: Woman robbed of gold

Woman robbed of gold
Chennai: An unidentified person stole a handbag containing 50 sovereigns of gold from a woman in the city on Friday. A person posing as a worker in a travel agency appears to have stolen the handbag.
According to the police, V. Sugantha, 50, of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, was proceeding to Benga­luru after attending a birthday function of a relative in the city. She boarded an omnibus at Periamet on Friday night. A person assisted her to get into the bus.
Immediately after occupying the seat, she found that her handbag, which contained 50 sovereigns of gold jewellery, was missing. The police has registered a case and are investigating.