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Mangaluru: Man held for wife’s murder

MANGALURU: A 54-year-old man was remanded in three-day police custody on Saturday, after he was arrested on the charges of murdering his wife.

The accused is Joseph Francis, a resident of Chetana Nagar in Kumpala of Ullal police station limits.

According to police, on May 11, the accused and his wife Shyma,44, quarrelled, and he is alleged to have assaulted her.

However, the police were informed that she fell after she consumed poison, and was rushed to the hospital.

She died the same evening. Her parents arrived the next day, and a complaint was registered.

However, the provisional postmortem report and preliminary investigation indicated that the victim suffered internal head injuries.

Though the police retrieved a bottle of poison from the scene of the crime, the FSL report is expected to provide clarity, if the victim had consumed poison, or the accused had just placed a bottle there. An investigation is on.

Man held for sexually harassing boy

The Puttur Rural police have arrested a man for allegedly sexually harassing a nine-year-old boy, after taking him to a forest.

The accused is Srijith,27, from Badiyadka in Kerala. The incident took place about 25 days ago, when the boy was on his way to get milk, and the accused, who was not known to the boy, reportedly approached him and introduced himself, as if he knew his father.

Later, he made him sit on his motorbike, promising to drop him home, but took him to a forest nearby.

He allegedly threatened the boy with a knife, and sexually harassed him.

A case has been registered under the Pocso Act.

Two held for peddling marijuana

Mangaluru South police have arrested two persons for possessing and attempting to sell ganja near the Mangaluru Central railway station, late in the evening on Friday. The arrested accused are Mohammed Mustafa and Mohammed Jajil from Kerala.

On receiving reliable information, the police picked them up, and seized 3.4 kg ganja, two mobile phones and Rs 2,500.

The total value of the seized items is Rs 1.6 lakh. A case has been booked under the NDPS Act.

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