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A baby Falak in Bangalore hospital

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April 9, 2012

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Bangalore, April 9: In a painful throwback to the case involving Baby Falak, a three-month-old Bangalore baby girl is battling for life in a City hospital after her father brutally tortured her for two days and attempted to kill her as he wanted a son.

The incident came to light when Afreen’s mother Reshma Banu brought the child to Vani Vilas hospital for treatment. Dr Gangadhar Belawadi, in-charge medical superintendent of the hospital, who examined the girl, suspected she was a victim of violence and informed members of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) who complained to the police.

The CWC has taken suo motu congnizance of the case and has helped the mother lodge a complaint with the police who subsequently arrested Farooq. The girl’s father, Farooq, a resident of Kushalnagar in KG Halli, and Reshma Banu married two years ago. Farooq was enraged at Reshma delivering a girl three months ago.

Reshma told Deccan Herald that enraged at not having got a son, Farooq was pestering her to abandon the child and even threatened to kill the baby.

Describing the assault on the baby, Reshma said she noticed some bite marks on the baby on April 5 and when she questioned Farooq, he brushed aside the injuries as insect bites. The next day, Reshma not only noticed cigarette burns on baby’s forehead and posterior, her neck was found dislocated. She later learnt that Farooq had banged the baby’s head on the wall when she was in the cradle. The baby developed fits on the morning of April 7 and vomited blood. Later, Reshma discovered that her husband tried to kill the baby by suffocating it with a pillow.

When Farooq and her in-laws refused to take the baby to hospital, Reshma had her way and took Afreen to Bowring Hospital. She was referred to Vani Vilas where the baby is being treated at the paediatric ICU.


Dr Belawadi said the child’s condition was critical. She had suffered a head injury, abrasions and bite marks. He said the child was referred to NIMHANS where a scan confirmed haemorrhage.

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Agencies
August 9,2020

Vijayawada, Aug 9: The number of those killed in the fire at a hotel being used as a COVID-19 facility in Vijayawada rose to 10 on Sunday, said Vikrant Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police.

Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh government announced Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia each to the families of those who lost their lives in the incident.

According to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's Office (CMO), Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy also ordered an in-depth probe into the accident and directed authorities to take steps to ensure better medical services to the victims of the accident.

"The hotel was taken on lease and run by Ramesh Hospitals, a private hospital where COVID-19 patients were being treated. 40 patients and 10 medical staff were at the hotel at the time of the incident. 

Officials were directed to launch immediate rescue measures," said Mekathoti Sucharitha, Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi also condoled the loss of the lives in the fire mishap and spoke to Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy over the phone and enquired about the accident.

The mishap took place in hotel Swarna Palace which was taken on lease and run by a private hospital for COVID patients.

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July 12,2020

Tamil Nadu, Jul 12: An alleged attempt by a 19-year-old man to "open a branch of the State Bank of India" at Panruti near Tamil Nadu was scuttled and he was arrested for forgery, police said on Saturday.

The man, son of retired SBI employees, had readied fake seals and challans of the public sector lender, and had other paraphernalia like a cash counting machine needed "to run a bank branch," on an upper floor of his residence at Panruti, about 25 km from Tamil Nadu.

He had not, however, put up any signboard. The SBI Panruti branch manager lodged a complaint with police seeking action following a tip-off by a customer that the man was "opening an SBI branch and has challans as well."

A printer who printed the challans and another who had made fake seals were held for similar offences and abetment.

They were produced before a magistrate court and enlarged on bail.

Asked if the man had cheated people by soliciting deposits or facilitating loans, Panruti police inspector K Ambethkar said, "no..we have not received any such complaint so far."

The man's late father had worked for SBI and his mother had retired from the same bank some time back, he said.

To a question, the police inspector said the man's mother, who has mobility issues, and another woman a relative living in the same house had no clue about his "idea."

Investigations revealed that he aspired to work for a bank and since he had closely watched banking operations for long he was "very knowledgeable" about it.

On the suspected motive, he said several of his replies were incomprehensible, childish, and strange notwithstanding his excellent understanding of the banking processes.

"He even calmly told us that he awaited approval from Mumbai to open the (SBI) branch and that he was about to put up a signboard," the inspector said, adding that the man had tried unsuccessfully to get employment on compassionate grounds in the SBI following the death of his father in harness.

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April 5,2020

Nagpur, Apr 5: A 23-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Imambada area in Nagpur on Saturday due to financial distress, police said.

Nikhil Gavhane, who worked in a grocery shop, hanged himself as he had taken money from a person and was stressed over repayment, an official said.

"He was depressed since a week," the Imambada police station official said.

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