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  • Chhattisgarh: Naxals set machines, vehicles on fire at road construction project site

    By PTI

    KANKER: Naxals set three machines and two vehicles engaged in a road construction project ablaze in Chhattisgarh Kanker district, police said on Saturday.

    As per the preliminary information, nobody was injured in the incident.

    The ultras video recorded the act and circulated the clip on social media, a senior police officer said.

    The incident occurred on Friday evening between Kalmuchhe and Marapi villages, where the road construction work is going on under Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), Kanker Superintendent of Police Shalabh Sinha said.

    According to the preliminary information, a group of armed ultras stormed the construction site, located around 20 km from Kanker town and about 170 km from the state capital Raipur, and threatened the labourers to stop the work, he said.

    They then set afire two trucks, two mixture machines and a JCB machine, the SP said.

    A police team reached the spot and launched a search operation to trace ultras.

    The video of the incident showed two trucks on fire while some men, clad in a Naxal ‘uniform’, are walking nearby.

    One of the ultras is seen video recording the burning trucks.

    In a banner put up at the spot, Naxals have asked to stop the construction works and threatened to kill road contractors if they take up the work without the approval of locals.

    Naxals have frequently tried to disrupt road construction works in the Bastar division, which consists of seven districts, by launching attacks on security forces and damaging the roads, vehicles and machines used in the work, according to police.

  • Chhattisgarh: Fed up with constant breastfeeding, woman kills two-yr-old by banging him on floor

    By PTI

    KORBA: A woman allegedly killed her two-year-old son by banging him on the floor of her house in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district after being harried by his demand for being breast-fed, police said on Thursday.

    The incident took place on Wednesday in Sector-5 area, about 10 km from the district headquarters, under Balco police station limits, they said.

    “As per preliminary investigation, the police have learnt that since 2014, the woman was suffering from a psychological problem and was under-treatment. The police have detained the woman and questioned her,” a senior police official said.

    She was fed up with the child’s constant demand for being breast-fed, he said.

    The woman, in a fit of rage, banged the child on the floor of her house.

    The child suffered serious head injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, the official said.

    The police have registered a case against the woman under relevant provisions, he added.

  • Chhattisgarh: Fake doctor gets 40 years in jail for raping two sisters

    By PTI
    RAIPUR: A fast-track court here has sentenced a fake doctor to two jail terms of 20 years each for raping two sisters on the pretext of treating them in 2017.

    The court, in its order on Wednesday, said the two sentences will run consecutively, which amounts to a 40-year jail term, Special Public Prosecutor Tarachand Kosale said.

    Additional Sessions Judge Pooja Jaiswal convicted Samay Lal Dewangan (48), a resident of Gandhi Nagar here, under section 376(2)(n) (committing rape repeatedly on the same woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced him to two jail terms of 20 years each for raping the two women, he said.

    The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict, Kosale added.

    In December 2016, the family members of the victims, then aged 21 and 19, took them to the accused for the treatment of their abdominal and waist pain.

    The accused started raping the siblings since early 2017 on the pretext of curing them through “black magic” and threatened them with dire consequences if they informed about it to anyone, the prosecutor said.

    The crime came to light in September 2017 when the victims narrated their ordeal to their parents, following which a complaint was lodged at the Gudhiyari police station, he said.

    The accused was subsequently arrested and a case was registered against him.