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The Hindu
14 hours ago
- The Hindu
KeLSA launches project to assist public
'Samayam', a scheme of the Kerala State Legal Services Authority (KeLSA) for assisting the public approaching police stations with civil, matrimonial and monetary cases and complaints regarding compoundable offences to settle disputes, was launched on Friday. District Police Chief (Kochi City) Putta Vimaladithya and Rural Superintendent of Police M. Hemalatha jointly inaugurated the programme, which is being implemented with the support of the district police. Honey M. Varghese, District and Sessions Judge, presided. KeLSA district secretary R.R. Rejitha, Chief Judicial Magistrate V. Sandeep Krishna, and Marlo Pallath, coordinator of the programme, spoke.
The Hindu
24-05-2025
- The Hindu
Man held on charge of impersonating ED official
A man was arrested by the Kunnathunadu police on the charge of impersonating an Enforcement Directorate (ED) official and cheating a person to the tune of over ₹27 lakh. The arrested man was identified as Ananthu Krishnan, 27, of Edakochi. A gang, including the accused, had allegedly cheated the petitioner by threatening him over mobile phone and the social media platform Skype, claiming that a courier in his name had been intercepted with five passports, a laptop, bank documents, and 400 grams of MDMA. When the petitioner said he had no clue about such a courier, he was allegedly told that it was probably a case of identity theft. The accused then procured the petitioner's Aadhaar card number under the pretext of getting him off the hook. Later, members of the racket reportedly reached out to him in the guise of ED officials and demanded money. The petitioner allegedly transferred ₹27.49 lakh from his two accounts to various accounts of the fraudsters. During the course of the investigation, the police tracked the movement of the money to various accounts. One such transfer was traced to Ananthu Krishnan's bank account in Palluruthy. He was thus summoned for evidence collection, and during the interrogation, he was found to be part of the racket, the police said. A team formed by District Police Chief (Ernakulam Rural) M. Hemalatha made the arrest.
The Hindu
22-05-2025
- The Hindu
Four-year-old girl found dead in river bears marks of sexual abuse, relative arrested
The Puthencruz police in Ernakulam on Thursday arrested a close relative of the four-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by her mother on charges including rape. The 36-year-old accused, one of the two brothers of the deceased child's father, was taken into custody after the post-mortem report suggested her body bore marks of 'chorionic' sexual abuse. He lived in a separate house on the same compound as the child's family. Confesses to crime While he was taken into custody on Wednesday morning, his arrest was recorded only on Thursday after he reportedly confessed to the crime following an interrogation by a team led by District Police Chief (Ernakulam Rural) M. Hemalatha. He was produced before the Kolencherry Judicial First Class Magistrate Court and remanded. The accused was booked for charges, including rape, under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act Sections 3 (penetrative sexual assault) and Section 5 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault). According to the police sources, the child was being sexually abused at least for the last one year. The post-mortem report also suggested that she was abused very recently, probably on the morning of the day she was allegedly murdered. Mother in custody Meanwhile, the Aluva Judicial First Class Magistrate gave the Chengamanad police five days' custody of the mother in the murder case. She will be further interrogated and taken around for the collection of evidence. Before being remanded in judicial custody, she told the police that she had killed her daughter. The mother picked up the child from the anganwadi and went missing on Monday evening. Later in the day, the mother reached her house near Aluva alone, and said that the child had gone missing along the way. CCTV footage However, the Chengamanad police took her into custody after CCTV footage emerged of her going towards the Moozhikulam bridge along the Chalakudy river with the child but returning alone. The body of the child was eventually retrieved from the river in the area around 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday after nearly eight hours of search.
