Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A doctor posted at the District Hospital was beaten up by a cyber café owner in the Rajmohalla area over a petty issue on Wednesday. The victim had injuries on his face and mouth and lodged a complaint against the accused at the Chhatripura police station.
“I was going back home after completing my night duty hours on Wednesday morning. I stopped by at Harsh Cyber Café located in Rajmohalla to apply for my family’s passports online. The cyber café owner asked me to pay Rs 1,800 for each application but, after confirming my order, he continued to work for others. When I asked him to do my job first, he punched me in the face and, later, he and his co-workers thrashed me badly,” the complainant, Dr Ankur Jain, said. He added that the accused pushed him out of the café after which he came back to the District Hospital and lodged a police complaint.
On the complaint of Dr Jain, the police have registered an FIR against Nilesh and Harsh under sections 294,323 and 506 of the IPC.
Meanwhile, president of the Health Department Officers’ and Employees’ Association Shekhar Joshi demanded stern action against the accused for attacking the doctor and announced that they would stage demonstrations against the police if they did not arrest the accused.
Man gets 10-year RI for raping minor girl
A special court, on Wednesday, awarded 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment to a person for raping a minor girl. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on the convict. The incident is about four years old.
On July 18, 2017, the minor’s father had lodged a complaint with the Bhanwarkuan police alleging that Arvind Khangar, a resident Pushpdeep Colony reached the place where his daughter used to work on July 17 asked offered her to drop at her place.
Since Arvind was familiar, the girl rode pillion on his bike. The accused took her to the house of Shailesh Pardeshi, who lives in Ekta Nagar and raped her there. The accused also threatened the minor of dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anyone.
However, the minor revealed the incident to her parents. The police registered a case against the accused under sections of kidnapping and rape. District prosecution officer Sanjeev Srivastava said that special judge Neelam Shukla convicted the accused and sentenced him to 10 years in jail.
Man booked for misbehaving with discom staff
A man was booked by the police for misbehaving with a discom engineer and other employees on Wednesday. The discom employees had gone to a consumer’s house to disconnect his electricity line as a bill of Rs 74,000 was due against his name.
Executive engineer (rural) of the MPPKVVCL Abhishek Ranjan said that, on the instructions of the superintendent engineer, DN Sharma, the discom engineers and employees had been collecting revenue and cutting the connections of defaulters.
The engineer of the Dudhiya power distribution centre, Abshishek Dwivedi, accompanied by lineman Subhash Nagjiram and other employees, Arun, Govind and Narendra, reached two houses of Shantilal Jat and Deepak in Dudhiya for disconnecting the electricity line as Shantilal had not paid a bill amount of Rs 74,000 for several months.
Shantilal started an argument with the officials. He allegedly threatened the officials with dire consequences and misbehaved with them. On the complaint of the engineer, Khudel police station staff registered a case under sections 353, 294, 506 of the IPC against Shantilal and further investigations are underway.
