Student wrongly accused of cyberbullying teacher sues city

May 9, 2012

indian_diplomat

New York,May 9: The daughter of an Indian diplomat who was wrongly accused of sending threatening e-mails to a teacher last year is suing the city for $1.5 million.

Krittika Biswas, 19, is seeking damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution, according to a lawsuit brought Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

The lawsuit says that Biswas was so traumatized by the incident that she left the country.

She is now pursuing college studies in science and engineering in her native India.

"I was very broken down after this," Biswas said a year ago when she announced her intention to sue.

"One of my friends asked me, 'Aren't you shameful. You got arrested?' So I was like, 'I didn't do anything,'" she said.

Her arrest for cyberbullying her math teacher took place at John Bowne High School in Flushing, where she was an honors student. At the time, her father was vice consul of the Indian Consulate in New York.

Biswas was dragged out of the school in handcuffs and spent the night in jail.

The next day, the charges were dropped.

The lawsuit says another student admitted sending the e-mails but he was never arrested.

The court papers say that even though the criminal case was dismissed, school officials still suspended Biswas, sending her to another school that was "akin to a reform school."

City lawyers said they could not comment because they had not seen the lawsuit.

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ED attaches Rs 78-cr worth assets of ex-ICICI Chairman Chanda Kochhar, others

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January 11,2020

New Delhi, Jan 11: Assets worth Rs 78 crore have been attached by the ED in connection with a money laundering probe against former ICICI Bank Chairman Chanda Kochhar and others, officials said on Friday.

A provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been issued for attachment of the properties that includes Kochhar's Mumbai-based house and some other assets belonging to a company linked to her, they said.

The book value of the attached assets is Rs 78 crore, they said.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and others in a case of alleged irregularities and money laundering in giving loans by the bank to the Videocon group.

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3-year-old boy who fell into borewell found dead in Telangana

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May 28,2020

Hyderabad, MAY 28: A three-year-old boy who accidentally fell into a newly drilled open borewell in Telangana's Medak district was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

The kid's body was retrieved at around 4 am after a nearly 10 hours' long rescue operation involving different agencies, they said.

"He died a while before we evacuated him, most likely due to the mud that covered him from the top sealing off necessary oxygen supply, " Medak District Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti told PTI.

The boy had accidentally slipped into the 120- feet borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday in an agricultural field located in Papannapet mandal of the district when he was walking with his grandfather and father, police earlier said.

As part of rescue efforts, a parallel trench was dug along the borewell hole with the help of earth excavating machines and oxygen was supplied into it, but the efforts went in vain as the boy's body was found stuck at a depth of around 25 feet, the police said.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were also involved in the rescue operation.

The borewell into which the child fell was one among the three dug by the family since Tuesday night to try and find water for their fields. But none of them yielded any water, police had said.

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