Mounesh Vishwakarma

Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Mar 25: In a joint operation, policemen from Bantwal and Vittal stations succeeded in arresting a person, who has been accused of posing life threat to a minor girl, who had been raped earlier. The arrest was made on Tuesday, March 24.

The arrested accused has been identified as Jabbar (30) from Karyadi in Kula village.

It is said that when a girl aged 14 from Kolpe, Urimajalu in Idkidu village was buying currency for her cell phone at Vittal, a person named Bobbekeri Basheer had obtained her cell phone number. Later, he had established contact with her by calling her cell phone, and had succeeded in convincing her about his good intentions.

On April 18 last year, he had invited her to his home, duly escorting her in a car. There was another person named Basheer already in the car, who was known for theft of motor bikes. The two had taken the girl to a desolate spot near Madikeri, before raping her. After returning home, bike thief, Abdul Basheer, a resident of Radhukatte Kodangayi in Vittal Padnoor village, had called her, made her believe through his skillful talks that he intended to marry her, asked her to visit him, and raped her again.

Abdul Basheer, it is learnt, was a married man already. Thereafter, Jabbar, who came to know of these incidents, called the girl, and asked her to accompany him, failing which he said he would eliminate her. Developing cold feet at this threat, the girl had filed a police complaint on April 23, 2014.

In the meanwhile, the accused had gone missing from their homes. The police, on learning that Abdul Basheer from Radhukatte, and Bobbekeri Basheer from Vittal Casba village, who was also married, were in Jamnagar, and Dwarka districts of Gujarat, went there on May 17, 2014, with the permission of the superintendent of police, and succeeded in bringing both of them here on May 20. They were produced in the court on the same day.

However, Jabbar had succeeded in hoodwinking the police. Although the police got information that he was somewhere around Thiruvananthapuram, there was no concrete information about his actual whereabouts. During this week, the police got information that Jabbar, who had taken up truck driving work, was in Karnataka.

Working together, policemen of local and Vittal polie stations led by Bantwal police circle inspector, Belliappa,, and Vittal police sub-inspector, Rakshit, succeeded in arresting Jabbar.