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As many as six witnesses deposed on Friday before District and Sessions Court as the Court resumed the trial in Manipal gang rape case on Friday.

A total number of 24 witnesses are examined in the case including one circumstantial evidence and the trial will continue on February 3 and 4. The victim in the case is summoned to appear before the court of law on February 3 to give her statement. The trial will be held in-camera proceedings. The witnesses who were examined on Friday by the court included close relatives of the accused.

The Manipal police have mentioned total of 108 witnesses in the chargesheet submitted to the court. On the very first day of the trial, two witnesses K S Jaivittal, who is the estate officer in Manipal University and Suresh, a cycle patrolling guard in the University campus were examined on January 6. Accordingly, four witnesses were examined on January 20 and six witnesses each were examined on January 21 and 22 including the circumstantial evidence, that is the autorickshaw which was used to abduct the victim.

Inspector, three constables suspended

An inspector and three police constables attached to the HAL police station were suspended on Friday for taking a bribe of Rs three lakh from a person convicted previously of mobile phone thefts.

DCP (South East) T D Pawar said Inspector Rajesh and constables Venkatesh, Dinesh and Bheem Singh were suspended on charges of taking bribe from Javed, arrested in theft cases two years ago and who had served punishment. He is now said to be leading a clean life. But the policemen allegedly harassed him and demanded Rs three lakh as bribe.

They threatened to book a case against him if he refused to pay, said the DCP. After paying them Rs three lakh on Wednesday, Javed approached the DCP. During investigations, the inspector and the constables confessed to the crime, he said.

Relatives hack woman to death

A 40-year-old woman was murdered in front of her ailing father, allegedly by her two relatives over a property dispute in Cottonpet police limits on Friday evening.

The victim, Geetha, was a resident of K Veerabhadrappa Lane, Akkipet.
 
Her two relatives – Narendra Kumar and Jithendra –  surrendered before the police hours after the murder and said that they hacked her to death due to a property dispute, the police said.

Geetha was married to Deepak for 20 years and the couple have no children. Geetha owned a five-storey building and was staying with her father Shankarappa, who suffered a paralytic stroke recently, in the ground floor. 

Deepak was not at his house when the murder occurred, the police said.

“I heard someone cry from inside and rushed to Geetha’s house,” Munawar, a neighbour, who runs a roadside stall, said.

“I saw two middle-aged youths coming out of the house holding lethal weapons. They vanished once they spotted me. I entered the house and saw Geetha lying in a pool of blood,” Munawar added.

Narendra and Jithendra gained entry inside the house and picked a quarrel with Geetha.

The duo later hacked her with a machete. Geetha sustained serious injuries on her head, chest and back.

She collapsed and died on the spot, Shankarappa told the police.