Mentally unstable woman with ankles tied rescued from river in Odisha

A woman from Chhattisgarh with her ankles tied with a shackle was rescued from the swollen Mahanadi on Thursday in Odishas Jharsuguda district reported PTI citing the policeThe woman was as identified as Sarojini Chouhan 33 hailing from Purath a village along Mahanadi in Raigarh district of ChhattisgarhShe was rescued at Palsada village in Lakhanpur police station area in Jharsuguda district of Odisha which is around 30 km downstream they saidAs per the PTI report fishermen spotted her after they heard her screaming locals saidWhen our friends were catching fish in Mahanadi they heard someone shouting for help They immediately rescued the woman offered her food and later handed her to the police said a fishermanSarojinis brother who came to take her back claimed she was separated from her husband and was living with his familyAs she was mentally unstable we tied her ankles with the shackle She somehow fell into the river and was swept away he claimedJharsugudas Superintendent of Police Parmar Smit Parshottamdas told PTI that the woman underwent a health checkup at the community health centre after the rescue and was doing fine Her family took her back he addedUran murder case Killer of 20yearold woman sent to police custodyThe Navi Mumbai police have made one arrest in connection with the murder of a 20yearold woman whose body was found in an isolated spot in Uran The accused identified as Dawood Shaikh 23 was apprehended in Karnataka on Tuesday and presented in a local court on Wednesday where he was remanded in police custody for seven daysDeputy Commissioner of Police Navi Mumbai Crime Branch Amit Kale said ldquoThe accused Shaikh was produced in court on July 31 and has been remanded in police custody for seven daysrdquoBoth Dawood Shaikh and the deceased went to the same school In 2019 when Shaikh dropped out of school he made every attempt to stay in touch with the girl Both were minors at the time The girlrsquos father even filed a molestation case against Shaikh in 2019 after which he was arrestedldquoHe claimed that he was released on bail after which he met with an accident and was bedridden After a few months he tried to contact the deceased and got in touch with her They would often have verbal disputes after which the deceased even blocked him This is when Shaikh started to use the phone of Moshin second name not disclosed a common friend to contact her Dawood claimed that Moshin even solved disputes among themrdquo said a police officer