
Four arrested on rape charge
The Hindu
The Ernakulam Rural police arrested four migrant workers on the charge of raping a 19-year-old girl, also a migrant, at Vengola near Perumbavoor.The arrested are Salim Mandal, 30, Mukalin Ansari, 28,
The Ernakulam Rural police arrested four migrant workers on the charge of raping a 19-year-old girl, also a migrant, at Vengola near Perumbavoor. The arrested are Salim Mandal, 30, Mukalin Ansari, 28, Moni aka Muneerul, 20, and Shakeebul Mandal, 23, all natives of West Bengal. The victim, who is also from West Bengal, was allegedly asked to go to their lodging in the name of cooking. She was staying with her husband at a rented house at Vengola. The accused were her neighbours, and as soon as her husband left for the day’s work at a plywood company, they requested her to go to their room and cook biriyani for them. Their attempt to flee the State was thwarted by the police, who acted on the direction of District Police Chief (Ernakulam Rural) K. Karthik.
On December 23, the newly elected office bearers of the Anna Nagar Towers Club, led by its president ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, who is a former MLA, met with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and conveyed their greetings. According to a press release, besides, ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, the Anna Nagar Towers Club delegation that met Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK Party headquarters, included vice-president R. Sivakumar, secretary R. Muralibabu, joint secretary D. Manojkumar, treasurer K. Jayachandran and executive committee members N. D. Avinash, K. Kumar, N. R. Madhurakavi, K. Mohan, U. Niranjan, S. Parthasarathi, K. Rajasekar, S. Rajasekar, M. S. Ramesh, R. Satheesh, N. C. Venkatesan and K. Yuvaraj. Karthik Mohan, deputy secretary of DMK’s Information Technology Wing, was present on the occasion.












