5 labourers killed as soil caves in during well excavation
PANNA(Madhya Pradesh), May 26: Five labourers were killed after soil caved in on them while they were digging a well in a village in MP’s Panna district. The incident occurred in Biharpurwa village around 12 pm, an official said. Police said that the labourers were working at the site of a public irrigation well, being constructed under the MNREGA scheme, when the soil collapsed on them. The deceased were identified as Ashish Yadav, Rajkumar Yadav, Rampal Yadav, Chunnu Yadav, and Chunvad Pal.The bodies were extricated from the soil and sent for post-mortem, an official said. (PTI)
Woman trafficked, raped; husband among seven arrested
PALANPUR (Gujarat), May 26: A man and six others were arrested in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district for allegedly trafficking his wife for Rs 50,000, after which she was reportedly raped and sexually assaulted.The heinous crime came to light during an investigation into a missing person complaint filed by the husband earlier this month.The accused had lodged a complaint on May 11 claiming that his wife had gone missing from Palanpur city.Within two days of the complaint, the husband himself went missing, following which his father filed another missing person complaint. This sequence of events raised suspicion.Cops subsequently traced the husband and later located his wife, whose formal statement exposed the alleged crime.It was revealed that the husband had allegedly sold his wife to his friends for Rs 50,000.(PTI)
