Tutorial principal rapes student, promises MBBS seat to cover up, then goes absconding

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August 28, 2019

Bengaluru, Aug 28: The police are on the lookout for the principal of a private tutorial, who is facing the charge sexually assaulting a teenage student and then trying to cover up it by promising her to help secure an MBBS seat.

The accused, Niranjan Gowda, 29, have been booked by the Ramamurthy Nagar police in Bengaluru under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 420 (cheating).

The victim in her complaint said she joined the tutorial earlier this year. Gowda offered special classes in physics and medical entrance coaching.

When the victim was ranked 10,000 in the Joint Entrance Examination, Gowda said he will give special tuition at her house in Peenya. He used to visit her house and when her parents were not at home. He used the opportunity to sexually assault her.

When the victim informed her parents, Gowda promised to marry her and help with MBBS admission. However, Gowda went absconding when the victim and her parents tried to reach him a few days ago.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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