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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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April 2,2020
Bengaluru, Apr 2: About 1,500 people from Karnataka might have attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin in the national capital between March 8 to 20. Of these, the State has been able to trace 800 people.
 
Of the 800 persons, 143 people have been found to be symptomatic.
 
Mr Jawaid Akhtar, Additional Chief Secretary (Health and Family Welfare), in a statement here on Thursday said that the Centre had sent the list of 1,500 people to the State.
 
“We cannot say if all these have attended the congregation. Some of them may have attended and some may be the contacts of those who have attended. We have been able to trace 800 from the list and samples of 143 symptomatic persons have been sent for tests."

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June 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 5: Karnataka registered its highest single-day spike of more than 500 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infections in the state to 4,835, the health department said on Friday.

The previous biggest single-day spurt was recorded on June 2 with 388 cases.

Of the 515 fresh cases reported, 482 are returnees from other states, mostly (about 471) from neighboring Maharashtra. Udupi district saw a major spike with over 200 cases today and the total tally of the district breaching seven hundred cases mark, to stand at 768.

As of June 5 evening, cumulatively 4,835 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 57 deaths and 1,688 discharges, the department said in its bulletin.

It said, out of 3,088 active cases, 3,075 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 13 are in ICU.

On Friday, 83 patients have been discharged.

According to state COVID-19 war room data, out of the total 4,835 cases, 93 per cent (4,488 cases) are asymptomatic and 7 per cent (347) are symptomatic.

The new cases include 471 from Maharashtra, three from Delhi, two each from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Haryana, and one from Tamil Nadu.

While one is with international travel history from Indonesia. Remaining cases include- contacts of patients earlier tested positive, those from containment zones, those who travelled from other districts, and the ones whose contact history is still being traced.

Among the districts where new cases were reported, Udupi accounts for 204 cases, followed by 74 from Yadgir, Vijayapura 53, Kalaburagi 42, Bidar 39, Belagavi 36, Mandya 13, Bengaluru Rural 12, Bengaluru Urban 10, Dakshina Kannada 8, Uttara Kannada 7, three each from Hassan, Dharwad and Chikkaballapura, two each from Ramanagara and Haveri, and one each from Davangere, Bagalkote, Ballari and Kolar.

Udupi district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 768 infections, followed by Kalaburagi 552 and Bengaluru urban 434.

Among discharges, Bengaluru urban still tops the list with total 271 discharges, followed by Davangere 147 and Mandya 146.

A total of 3,60,720 samples were tested so far, out of which 13,627 were tested on Friday alone.

So far 3,49,951 samples have reported as negative, and out of them 12,797 were reported negative on Friday.

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April 26,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 26: Yet another covid-19 positive case has been reported from Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. 

Health and Family Welfare Department's latest bulletin revealed that a 47-year-old woman from Panemangaluru in Bantwal was tested positive for the coronavirus. 

With this the total number of covid-19 infected people in Dakshina Kannada rose to 19 out of which 7 are from Bantwal taluk. 

According to sources, this woman was working as a sweeper in a private hospital in the city where a coronavirus victim from Bantwal was being treated before she was shifted to covid-19 hospital.

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