HC convicts oracle in rape case
The Hindu
Sentencing a temple priest/oracle to life imprisonment for raping a girl, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday wondered which God would accept the obeisance and offerings of such a pr
Sentencing a temple priest/oracle to life imprisonment for raping a girl, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday wondered which God would accept the obeisance and offerings of such a priest or make him a medium.
The Bench comprising Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice Ziyad Rahman, while partly allowing an appeal by Madhu, an oracle, against the Manjeri Special Court for the cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, observed that “in this case we have a pujari/komaram (priest/oracle in a temple) taking the abandoned woman and the three children under his wing, only to repeatedly molest the elder girl child, that too in the presence of her siblings. We wonder which God would accept the obeisance and offerings of such a priest or make him a medium?"
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.