By Vartha Bharati
Udupi: Police from the Udupi Women’s Police Station have arrested a Hindu Jagarana Vedike activist in connection with a rape case involving a young woman who was assaulted in an isolated area.
The accused has been identified as Pradeep Poojary (26), a member of the Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s Nayarkodu unit in Perdur. He had allegedly been harassing a woman to marry him, and after she refused, she filed a complaint at the Hiriyadka Police Station. He was arrested earlier in this connection but was later released on bail.
According to the complaint, fuelled by the same hostility, on November 29, Pradeep intercepted the woman while she was walking through an isolated location and again pressured her to marry him. When she refused, he allegedly strangled her in a threatening manner and committed rape.
The woman informed her family, who subsequently filed a complaint with the Udupi Women’s Police Station. Police registered the case, arrested the accused, and produced him before the court. The court has remanded him to judicial custody.
This story was originally published in english.varthabharati.in.
