DK Judge to sentence man guilty of trying to kill his lover

DK Judge to sentence man guilty of trying to kill his lover

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, July 17, 2016: A Romeo,  who planned to eliminate his lover is all set to hear the quantum of punishment for his crime on July 18, Monday; at  the sixth additional district and sessions judge D T Puttarangaswamy.  Anand (25), a labourer, guilty of charges of attempting to murder his lover by pushing her into the Kumaradhara near Kadaba in September 2014. Anand was staying in the house of his 20-year-old woman friend in Belthangady after his parents abandoned him, according to the charge-sheet by Belthangady police. Anand offered to marry her after developing intimacy with the girl and went on to have physical relationship with her on March 2, 2014 when she was alone in the house. When this relationship resulted in the girl conceiving, she insisted that Anand marry her as promised.

Anand called the girl and asked her to come to Subrahmanya so that she could get the child aborted. Accordingly, she left to Uppinangady from where they went on his motorcycle to Subrahmanya on September 8, 2014. Citing a mechanical problem, Anand stopped the motorcycle midway on the bridge across the Kumaradhara at Kadaba. As she was looking at the river that was in full flow, Anand walked up from behind and pushed her into the water.

The girl six months into her pregnancy managed to negotiate the flowing river for nearly two kilometres and fortuitously held on to a tree in the middle of the Kumaradhara. Two fishermen on a coracle spotted the woman struggling in the river the next morning and brought her to ashore. She was admitted to Government Hospital at Puttur, where she filed a complaint against Anand, he was arrested  on September 10, the charge-sheet stated.

While the girl initially stood by the allegations made in her complaint, she later admitted in the court that the relationship was consensual. The girl incidentally has since delivered the child. Public prosecutor O M Crasta examined total of 23 witnesses including the fishermen, who had rescued the girl. Puttarangaswamy, while acquitting Anand of charge of rape, found him guilty on attempt to murder and will announce the quantum on punishment.