Bhopa: A girl student of a pharmacy college allegedly committed suicide after being ragged by her seniors and a faculty member, police said on Thursday.
Four of her seniors, all females, and the faculty member were arrested on Thursday, they said.
Anita Sharma (18), pursuing her B-Pharma second year course from the RKDF College, hanged herself on Wednesday at her residence in Jeevan Vihar Society here, police said.
A note, purportedly written by Anita, blamed her four seniors and the faculty member for the suicide, police said.
According to the note, the girl's seniors had been allegedly ragging her from the time she got admission in the college. They forced her to write their mid-semester copies and when she brought this to the notice of faculty member, identified as Manish, he asked her to obey her seniors if she wanted to continue in the college, police said.
Later, when the seniors came to know about her complaint, they started harassing her further and threatened to throw acid on her as well as rape her, the suicide note said.
Police arrested her four seniors, identified as Nidhi, Dipti, Divyanshi and Preeti and faculty member Manish, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Dilip Singh Tomar told reporters.
They were arrested on the charge of abetment to suicide, he added. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today directed the authorities to seriously deal with the issue of ragging.
State Chief Secretary R Parsuram also chaired a meeting in this regard and directed officials to take stern measures to prevent recurrence of such an incident.
MP Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta visited the residence of the victim today to console the grieving family members and directed the police to take immediate action against those whose names were mentioned in the suicide note.
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Nursery student sodomised in school by peon
New Delhi: A four-year-old Kindergarten student was sodomised in a private school in the city allegedly by a peon.
The boy, a student of Lower Kindergarten (LKG) in the private school in North East Delhi's Jafrabad area was sodomised inside the school's bathroom allegedly by the peon on Monday, police said today.
"When the child's mother came to pick him up from the school he told her about the incident, who then informed his father. The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital," said a police officer.
When police received a call from the hospital about the incident, a team went to the hospital and inquired about the case and arrested the peon, Ashok (45), police said.
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Boy kills father for torturing mother
Bhopal: A teenaged boy allegedly hacked his father to death as he was miffed with him for torturing his mother in Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district.
The boy was later arrested. The 15-year-old boy attacked his father Hari Prasad (46) with an axe last night at their home in Satwas village under Damini police station limits in Mandla, police said.
The boy, angry with his father who was a habitual drinker, for allegedly sexually torturing his mother, killed him after his sisters had gone to sleep.
The accused was later arrested and his two sisters were also held for allegedly helping him in dumping the body. Further probe was on, police added.
Next: Three-yr-old raped in MP
Three-yr-old raped in MP
Bhopal: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a youth at a village in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.
The accused, identified as Balveer alias Kapla Sikarwar (25), lured the three-year-old girl with biscuits and took her to a deserted place outside Sikrouda village in Morena and raped her yesterday, they said.
The accused, who was known to the girl and her family, left the victim outside her house after committing the offence and fled.
The girl then informed her mother about the crime following which she lodged a complaint against the accused.
Superintendent of Police Irshad Wali Shah said a case has been registered against the accused and the girl was referred to Gwalior for treatment. Search was on to nab the accused, police added.
Next: Class IX student commits suicide over a fight with sister
Class IX student commits suicide over a fight with sister
Kanpur (UP): A class IX student immolated herself allegedly after a fight with her younger sister over not wanting to go to school, police said here on Thursday.
The two sisters, residents of Kalyanpur area here, used to go to school together everyday but on Wednesday, Vineeta (14) did not feel like going and therefore, tried to convince her younger sister Sangeeta to not go as well, they said.
As Sangeeta, a class VI student, refused to comply, the two sisters ended up fighting. Following this, Vineeta locked herself in a room and immolated herself.
Hearing the girl's cries, Vineeta's mother along with the neighbours broke open the door and rushed the girl to a hospital, where she was declared brought dead.
Next: Believing child witness, HC convicts father for killing mother
Believing child witness, HC convicts father for killing mother
Mumbai: Believing the testimony of a child witness, the Bombay High Court has confirmed the life sentence awarded to a man who killed his wife by hitting an iron chair on her head in a fit of rage for not preparing food.
The witness, Suraj, was a minor child of the couple who had seen his father, Dhanaji Bajage, striking a fatal blow with a chair on his mother's head on March 11, 2004.
"It is true that the evidence of a child witness normally is not accepted by the court unless it is corroborated, as children are susceptible to be tutored. In the present case, however, we find that Suraj is not a tutored witness," observed Justices Revethi Dhere and P V Hardas.
Sadanand, uncle of deceased Sangeeta, had rushed to the scene of crime when he was informed about the incident by Suraj. Sadanand also recorded this fact in the FIR that Suraj had briefed him.
"Thus the disclosure made by Suraj to Sadanand was an immediate and spontaneous disclosure and there is no element of tutoring of Suraj by Sadanand," the court said last week.
"In these circumstances, therefore, we find that the testimony of Suraj is amply corroborated by the immediate disclosure which was made by Suraj to Sadanand and the disclosure therefore is a strong circumstance substantiating that he is a truthful witness," the bench further remarked.
The court rejected the argument of the appellant that an independent witness from the locality was not examined. The judges said they did not find that non-examination of any independent witness has vitiated the conviction.
The conviction is based on an eye witness and therefore, absence of any other witness would not materially affect the outcome of the trial, the judges opined.
The bench also confirmed the three-year jail term awarded to the appellant by the Thane sessions court in 2005 for screening evidence by telling police that his wife had fallen off a ladder and sustained a fatal injury.
However, the court did not find any evidence about the cruelty meted out on the victim by her husband by raising dowry demands of buying him an auto rickshaw and a tractor. Hence, he was acquitted on this count.
Next: Inmate commits suicide, other prisoners clash with deputy jailer
Inmate commits suicide, other prisoners clash with deputy jailer
Kannauj: An inmate allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell following which other prisoners clashed with the deputy jailer and indulged in brick batting.
Kamlesh, resident of Thadia area of the district hanged himself with a cloth in barrack number 3 late last night, police sources said.
As soon as his fellow inmates came to know of the incident, they clashed with the deputy jailer and other security guards, sources said.
The prisoners also indulged in brick-batting, sources said, adding Jailer Satyendra informed the district authorities and District Magistrate Dr Rupesh Kumar and Superintendent of Police Subhash Shakya, who reached the spot.
District Magistrate Rupesh Kumar has transferred five jail employees including Deputy Jailor O P Singh, besides ordering a magisterial inquiry into the incident, officials said.
Meanwhile, the protesting prisoners have claimed that Kamlesh committed suicide after being beaten up by the jail staff, sources said. During the protest, the inmates climbed on the rooftop of the jail and shouted slogans.