Family members beat rapist to death

Compiled by FARIK ZOLKEPLI, TAN SIN CHOW and R. ARAVINTHAN

THE father and uncle of a young girl in India surrendered to the police after beating to death the man who raped her, Malaysia Nanban reported.

The rapist, aged 35, worked as a cement mixing machine operator at a construction site in Odisha.

When he noticed a young girl standing outside her house nearby, he kidnapped and sexually assaulted her.

The girl’s father and uncle, who found out about the assault, confronted the man and delivered a brutal beating. The man bled to death on the spot. Following this, both men surrendered themselves at the local police station.

The two are said to be waiting for an order to be charged while the rape victim is undergoing treatment at the hospital.

> SJK (T) Ladang Banopdane teacher Selvarani Uthrakumaran won the Batang Padang district level best innovative teacher award, Malaysia Nanban also reported.

Selvarani, a Master’s degree holder in Mathematics, introduced innovative methods to teach the subject to primary school pupils.

Her innovation has won international, national and state level competitions where she has bagged eight gold and eight silver medals.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.