Abusive teacher arrested after Class 8 girl Zaibunnisa found dead in hostel room

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January 26, 2018

Mangaluru, Jan 25: A day after a 14-year-old girl student of Navodaya Minority Residential School at K R Pet in Mandya district was found hanged to death in her hostel room under suspicious circumstances, the police on Thursday (January 25) arrested one of her teachers who was accused of physically and mentally torturing her.

The victim has been identified as Zaibunnisa (Safreena), a class eight student, and daughter of Mohammed Ibrahim and Zubaida couple from Uppinangady in Dakshina Kannada district. At around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday she had contacted her mother through her friend’s mobile phone and complained against the abusive teacher, identified as Ravi.

It is learnt that Ravi had insulted, abused and thrashed Zaibunnissa in front of other students accusing her of not performing well during the rehearsal for Republic Day parade. 

In her last mobile conversation with her mother, the girl also had accused the same teacher of targeting her for past couple of months. She also had revealed that he had threatened to strip and thrash her. Before disconnecting the call, the girl had pleaded her mother to save her by getting her admitted to some other school.

An hour later, around 5:30 p.m., Zaibunnisa was found dead in her hostel room. Her friends, who noticed the lifeless body hanging from a ceiling fan, immediately informed the teachers. Ravi and other staff rushed to the spot and took Zaibunnisa to a local hospital, where the doctors declared her brought dead, and informed police.

Jurisdictional K R Pet police visited the hospital and hostel, conducted mahazar and informed the victim’s parents who rushed from Uppinangady and reached K R Pet around 2 a.m. on Thursday. According to Ravi and other teachers of the school, Zaibunnisa committed suicide. However, her family members and some of the organizations have expressed suspicion that Ravi might have murdered her.

There are more than a hundred inmates in the hostel. During inquiry, many of them reportedly told the police that Ravi used to torture Zaibunnisa indeed. Later, the police shifted the dead body to MMC&RI Mortuary in Mysuru. 

The aggrieved parents and relatives of the victim staged a protest in front of the mortuary demanding justice. Members of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) too joined them and demanded immediate arrest of Ravi and a suitable compensation to the family.

As per the demand of the family members, the post-mortem was conducted at KR Hospital in Mysuru. Ravi was later arrested by the police on charge of abetment to suicide. Mandya Superintendent of Police G Radhika also visited the spot. K R Pet Police are investigating the case.

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Ali
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Wednesday, 31 Jan 2018

  • Govt. should Hang the culprict.

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May 3,2020

Bengaluru, May 3: The Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare Services in the government of Karnataka KA Dayanand issued an order approving quarantine of asymptomatic COVID-19 infected international passengers on payment basis at star hotels.

The international passengers in the state have been categorised into A, B and C groups depending on their symptoms and co-morbid conditions. Category A passengers are symptomatic and are being sent to isolation hospitals which may be COVID care centres.

Category B and C passengers are asymptomatic and are being sent to institutional facilities like hostels, guest houses, hotels, etc.

"On the basis of demands by category B and C passengers to provide them star hotel accommodation on a self-payment basis, they have been granted the choice of staying in those hotels at their own cost. The BBMP Special Commissioner/Deputy Commissioner can have a meeting with such hotels and finalise the negotiated rate," Commissioner Dayanand said in the order.

"The hotels for category B passengers should have round the clock presence of health personnel while hotels for category C passengers should be visited by health staff once a day," he added.

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July 18,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 18: Veteran actor Hulivana Gangadharaiah has passed away due to novel Coronavirus at the age of 70 on Friday night at a private hospital. He has acted in films, plays and serials as well.

He was acting in the romantic serial Premaloka which has Vijay Suriya and Ankitha Navya Gowda in lead roles.

According to reports, after he showed the symptoms of having Coronavirus, he got self-isolated at his farm house. When his health condition deteriorated, he was admitted to the hospital. Gangadhariah has acted in over 100 films, 150 plays and many serials lived his life in a simple way.

Condoling the death of Gangadharaiah, T N Seetharam on his Facebook page posted, “The death of a friend and a wonderful actor Hulivana Gangandharaiah is painful. In Aaspota play, the role of a driver he played brought immense popularity ro the play. When George Fernandes watched the play he appreciated his character. In the serial Muktha Muktha, he played the role of a politician Rajanandaswamy with ease which was aired for over three years brought us closer. In the modern theatre, Nagesh whom I consider as Guru used to cast Gangadharaiah in each play he directed which reflected the kind of faith he had in him. After a few years, he got involved in agriculture so I did not had much contact with him. It’s been nearly eight years I last met him. It is very sad that we have lost him.”

Lead actor of the serial Premaloka, Vijay Suriya has also mourned the death of Hulivana Gangadharaiah who was seen in a pivotal role in the serial.

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January 5,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 5: Against the backdrop of Mangalore violence of December 19, Additional Director General of Police of Karnataka Amar Kumar Pandey visited the city and held a meeting with senior police officers.

According to senior police officials here on Sunday, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District Muslim Central Committee had planned to hold a protest against CAA at Nehru Maidan while the SKSSF had called for anti-CAA protest at State Bank area.

Though both the protests had been called off, there was an apprehension of a repeat incident of December 19 violence and hence the ADGP visited the city at the behest of state government and monitored the situation here for the entire day on Saturday.

The ADGP was unhappy that despite initial inputs and the imposition of Section 144 in the city, the situation on that day escalated to a level where police had to resort to firing only in this city.

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