Andhra student raped, hunt on for accused
An intermediate student of St Pious College in Ramnagar was allegedly raped in the city on Sunday even as her blind mother was attending Sunday prayers in a church near Narayanaguda YMCA.
The girl, aged around 18, was then pushed out of a car as the culprits sped away. She was taken to the Government Maternity Hospital at Petlaburz, bleeding profusely.
Special teams of the police launched a hunt for three persons whose numbers figured in the girl’s cellphone. One of the numbers was of the dance teacher of the girl, who has been picked up. “We are waiting for blood reports to find out whether she was drugged,” said the police.
We are also trying to identify the other numbers,” said an investigating officer.
He said, “As of now it seems that the accused is only one person. It may not be a case of gangrape. But still our investigation is open to all angles.”
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Youth ends life after loss in cricket
Arwal, April 17: Apparently depressed with their team’s loss in a local cricket match, a youth on Sunday died after consuming a poisonous substance, while his friend was taken ill in Telpa village in Bihar’s Arwal district, the police said.
The deceased, identified as Shyam Sunder (16) consumed some poisonous substance at his house in a state of depression following his team’s loss in a local cricket match and died within hours, Telpa police station in-charge Shyam Sunder Prasad said.
Sunder’s teammate Rakesh Kumar (17) also consumed poisonous substance in a suicide bid due to similar reasons and was taken ill, he said.
—PTI
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Countdown for PSLV C16 launch to begin today
Chennai, April 17: The countdown for the April 20 launch of the country’s latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two small spacecraft on board PSLV C16 rocket from the Sriharikota spaceport, 90 km from here, will begin on Monday.
With the Launch Authorisation Board for the mission giving its green signal at its meeting at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Saturday, the 54-hour long countdown will commence at 4.12 am on Monday.
The 98 kg YOUTHSAT, an Indo-Russian satellite for stellar and atmospheric studies and 106 kg X-SAT, a microsatellite for imaging applications built by Nanyang Technological University Singapore, will also be placed in orbit.
—PTI
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Pak woman, 76, jailed for overstaying
Bhadoi, April 17: A Pakistani woman in her 70s was arrested and sent to jail here on Sunday for overstaying in the country even after expiry of her visa.
Saifunnisa Ali (76), a native of Karachi in Pakistan, was arrested from Sarai Bazar area yesterday evening for illegally living in India without a valid visa, official sources said. She was sent to jail on Sunday after being interrogated. The woman told the police during interrogation that she came here to visit her place of birth but did not apply for renewal of her visa after its expiry.
—PTI
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