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Woman ends life, harassment suspected

Staff Reporter

26-year-old woman's father lodges complaint alleging dowry harassment

BANGALORE: A 24-year-old woman, who was allegedly harassed by her husband for more dowry, committed suicide at her house in Banaswadi Police Station limits on Wednesday.

The police said that around 9 a.m., Bindu, wife of Prabhu, hanged herself from the ceiling of her house in Aswathappa Layout. Bindu's father, Ramakrishnaiah, has lodged a complaint with the Banaswadi police that she ended her life as her husband was harassing her for dowry.

Man murdered

Following a dispute over ancestral property, Ramakrishna (45) was hacked to death allegedly by his half brother and another relative in Ramanagara Rural Police Station limits in Bangalore Rural district on Wednesday evening. The police said that when Ramakrishna alias Poojary was standing near his house at Rampura, his half brother Ravi and a relative Shivaraj, pushed him and slit his throat. The Ramanagara Rural police have registered a case.

Woman killed

Gangamma (45) was killed after a car hit her while she was crossing Mysore Road, off Sahara Garments, in Byatarayanapura traffic police station limits around 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The police said Gangamma, wife of Krishnappa, was a resident of Kengeri. After hitting the woman, the car driver sped away. A passer-by noted down the car's registration number and gave it to the police. The police, who started checking for the vehicle, found it abandoned near Anandrao Circle.

Youth attacked

Armed men on Wednesday night attacked a pan shop owner on Residency Road, injuring him severely.

The police said that around 11.30 p.m., Pramod, 26, closed his pan shop on Residency Road and boarded an autorickshaw to reach his house in Sampangiramnagar.

After he travelled some distance, a few persons, who were travelling by an autorickshaw and riding a motorcycle, dragged him out of the autorickshaw.

They hit him on the head with a sword and stabbed him in the abdomen and sped away.

The Ashoknagar policehave registered a case.

The police

aid they are yet to ascertain the motive behind the attack.

Sentenced

The IX Fast Track Court has convicted and sentenced a man and his mother to seven years of imprisonment in a dowry death case.

The police had filed a charge sheet in the court that Banumathi had committed suicide by hanging herself at her Rajajinagar house on November 11, 2001 as she was tortured by her husband Satish and mother-in-law Swarna for more dowry.

The court fined Satish and Swarna of Rs. 1,000 each.

The court acquitted Satish's elder brother Udaya Kumar and sister-in-law Tulasi, who were accused in the case.

In another case, the V Fast Track Court has convicted and sentenced Venkatachalapathi to one-year imprisonment and fined him Rs. 5,000 holding him responsible for his wife's suicide.

According to the charge-sheet filed by Hennur police in the court, Venkatachalapathi's wife, Radhika, hanged herself to death on August 7, 2004, as he was torturing her for more dowry.

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