1. Mohd Haris Nalapad’s Lawyer: Vidvat Fell in Cafe, Did This to Self
Whether Mohammed Haris Nalapad will remain in jail till his judicial custody gets over on 7 March or walks out on bail before that will be decided on Tuesday, but what became clear on Monday that every fact will be twisted to suit and protect the guilty. Nalapad and his six friends are accused of assaulting Vidvat L, a management graduate, at Farzi Café on 17 February night. So severe was the assault that Vidvat suffered multiple rib fractures, in the nose and skull.
After beating Vidvat to a pulp in the cafe and then in UB City’s parking lot, Nalapad and his friends then followed through and landed up at Mallya Hospital, an hour after Vidvat was admitted there.
Sabastian claimed that Nalapad and his friends had gone to Farzi Café to have dinner when they had an argument with Vidvat.
(Source: Bangalore Mirror)
2. Karnataka Has Just 20% of EVMs Needed for Elections
The officials in Karnataka are busy procuring Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) from other states that had recently gone to polls and from defence PSU Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL), who together will supply 80 percent of the machines needed to conduct the impending elections likely to be scheduled in the last week of April.
Sources told TOI that various district administrations have a few EVMs stored with them, but conceded that they are less than what’s mandated as the minimum requirement to be stored in states going into elections.
While they did not go into actual numbers, sources said that various district administrations have about 20 percent of the EVMs required for the elections.
(Source: The Times of India)
3. Water Shortage Hits Some Areas Even Before Peak Summer
Residents in some parts of Bengaluru have started feeling the pangs of water shortage even before summer has peaked. Despite assurances from the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) that there is enough water for the city, certain localities under the South East Division, which caters to five constituencies including Shanthinagar, CV Raman Nagar, parts of Mahadevapura and KR Puram, are experiencing shortage in water supply.
Residents of localities dependent on the Aero Engine ground level reservoir, such as C.V. Raman Nagar, New Thippasandra, Malleshpalya and other surrounding localities, said supply has been erratic or little for over a week.
According to local BWSSB officials, the problem cropped up because the water being pumped into the reservoir is low even though the overall water supply by BWSSB has remained constant at 1,400 MLD.
(Source: The Hindu)
4. Labourer Rapes Four-Year-Old, Held
A 28-year-old labourer was arrested on Sunday on charges of raping a four-year-old girl. The suspect has been identified as Anil Kumar, a native of Bihar. The victim is also from the same state and known to Kumar.
Kumar was working as a daily wage labourer at the RMC Yard. The victim's parents were also working as labourers and knew each other. The suspect gave a chocolate to the victim and took her to a lorry stand near her house and raped her, the police said.
At night, the victim complained of stomach ache following which her parents took her to a hospital, where the doctor informed them about the sexual assault on the girl. Subsequently, the parents filed a complaint against Kumar.
(Source: Deccan Herald)
5. 28-Year-Old Techie Texts US Sister, Ends Life Over Dowry
Unable to bear alleged dowry harassment, a software engineer, 28, committed suicide in her flat in Ramamurthynagar, east Bengaluru, on Saturday afternoon. Rashmi Sathish, a resident of an apartment complex on Kempegowda Road, texted her sister in the US to say it was her last day and requested her to take care of her son.
On receiving the message around 12.30pm IST, the sister alerted her mother to check what was happening. Bhagyamma, Rashmi’s mother, rushed from her Malleswaram home to her daughter’s flat around 1.30pm to find it locked from inside.
Bhagyamma alerted her son-in-law Sathish, who had gone to his village in Kolar district earlier in the day. Police too rushed to the flat and broke open the door to find Rashmi hanging from the ceiling fan.
(Source: The Times of India)
6. One Murdered in Drunken Brawl
A drunken brawl between two friends ended in the murder of a 28-year-old man named Santhosh. The victim and the suspect BP Ranganath, who worked as cab drivers, were at a bar in Peenya on Sunday night when an argument broke out between them.
Ranganath hit Santhosh following which he fell unconscious. Ranganath later bludgeoned Santhosh's head with a boulder and killed him, the police added. The police are questioning the other two friends, Naresh and Nagraj about the incident and also searching for Ranganath.
(Source: Deccan Herald)
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