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10-year-old mentally challenged girl gang raped and murdered by brother and his friends
In a horrific incident, a 10-year-old mentally challenged girl was gang raped and later murdered by her brother and his three friends in Manoharpur area of Jaipur. All the four boys are in their early 20s. The girl had gone missing on May 17, and her body was found on May 21 following which, the four accused were arrested on May 23.
ACP Sulesh Choudhary, investigating officer of the case, told TOI, On May 18, the girls parents had registered a missing complaint. The girl was mentally challenged and could not even speak or do routine tasks on her own. After the case was registered, over 100 cops were deployed to find the girl. The cops were however were clueless for three days as no one had seen the girl after she went missing around 4pm on May 17.
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Shankar Dutt Sharma, SP, Jaipur Rural additionally informed, The family was reluctant to give us straight answers. We found their statements contradicting. We searched for the girl in the forest area as well suspecting that the family would have killed and buried her there.
Sharma added that after three days the girls family themselves brought the clothes, which she had worn on the day she went missing from the forest. After FSL teams were deployed, the police finally discovered the girls body in the forest. Using call records of the likely suspects, the cops nabbed the four accused, which included the victim’s brother, who later confessed to the crime.
As per reports, the girls brother and his three friends had taken her to the secluded area to probably kill her but decided to take advantage of the situation and rape her. She was later strangled to death.
COVID-19
Thane Municipal Corporation adds 25 beds as COVID cases rise
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) added 25 additional beds in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital Kalwa apart from arranging a special ward dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The total number of active patients in the city stood at 252 while five succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile, TMC Commissioner Abhijit Bangar said a ‘death audit’ of patients who died of COVID would be conducted. The TMC has ensured it has additional stock of oxygen concentrators, testing kits, medicines, to name a few. Bangar told HT, “Due to the increasing number of Covid patients, it is necessary for everyone to be alert.”
He added, The number of Covid tests should be increased to stay one step ahead of the disease. As a result, the number of patients is likely to increase due to increased testing. However, as per the ‘test, isolate, treat’ protocol for Covid, it becomes necessary to isolate and treat more and more patients. The testing centres will not remain closed even for a single day. At the same time, more arrangements for testing will be made immediately in public places, markets, railway stations, malls.”
India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.
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Politics
After Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification, his namesake who contested from Wayanad disqualified

Rahul Gandhi
An independent candidate for Lok Sabha elections named Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses. Gandhi, who’s name figures as ‘Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma’ in an Election Commission list of persons, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent and had received 2196 votes from the Wayanad seat in Kerala – a constituency from where ex-Congress MP Rahul Rajiv Gandhi had won with over seven lakh votes.
However, since it is mandatory for all contestants to submit their account of election expenses among other mandatory requirements under EC rules and the Representation of the People Act.
Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma stood disqualified to contest polls from September 13, 2021 till September 13, 2024. According to Section 10A, the Election Commission can disqualify a contestant for a period of three years from the date of the order if he/she has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner required by law and has no good reason or justification for the failure.
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Nagpur News
Nagpur records 22 COVID cases in 24 hours
A total of 22 patients tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur in past 24 hours on Thursday. Almost 242 people were tested in the city, out of which 15 belonged to urban area while and 6 were from the rural areas, and one from outside Nagpur district.
At present, there are 72 active patients in the city. Three new cases of the new XBB.1.16 variant of COVID-19 were detected that took the total tally to five in the district.
India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.
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