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Provincial Civil Services officer posted in Lucknow commits suicide

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May 13, 2012

Lucknow, May 13: A senior Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officer, Vinod Kumar Rai, posted as ADM (West) in the state capital allegedly committed suicide by consuming sulphas tablets late on Friday night. Rai was with his 22-year-old domestic help at his official Butler Palace residence when he took the extreme step.


Rai was rushed to the Civil Hospital from where he was referred to the Trauma Centre at Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University. After struggling for life for a few hours, Rai finally breathed his last at around 5am.


Though the exact cause of Rai taking the extreme step could not be ascertained, family tension is suspected to be the reason. Rai's wife Neelima had left for her native district Deoria only a couple of days back. Rai belonged to Mau district.


On Friday night at around 11pm, Rai had dinner and asked his maid Suresh to give him message. After sometime, Suresh went to his room. Meanwhile, Rai had a mobile conversation with his wife Neelima at around Friday midnight.


After midnight, Rai allegedly consumed some sulphas tablets. Soon, he started feeling uneasy and woke up his domestic help Suresh. He then asked him to install a fan outside the room, the police said.


Soon, Rai started vomiting and it was at that time he told Suresh about consuming sulphas. A panic-struck Suresh then alerted one of the Rai's neighbours, an ACJM. Rai was rushed to Civil Hospital from where he was referred to the Trauma Centre.


DIG Ashutosh Pandey was informed about the incident at around 3.30am. Pandey rushed to the Trauma Centre and even talked to Rai. The DIG confirmed talking to Rai. He said Rai did recognise him by his voice and talked to him for a few minutes.


After sometime Rai breathed his last.


Family members of Rai, including his son Utkarsh, who is pursuing BTech in Noida and his wife Neelima were informed. By afternoon, both reached Lucknow, the police said.

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Family members of Additional District Magistrate Vinod Kumar Rai

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June 29,2020

Khammam, Jun 29: In an outrageous incident, some youths beat up a monkey and strung it up on a tree to death while also releasing dogs to attack it in Ammapalem village in Telangana's Khammam district.

A video of the heinous incident of animal cruelty has surfaced on social media, in which the monkey is seen hanging by a rope from a tree, desperately flailing its limbs while a couple of dogs attempt to pounce on and torment the hapless simian. After a while, several men are seen in the video approaching the animal with long sticks.

Forest officials have charged one villager Venkateshwar Rao under Wildlife Protection Act along with the other accused and arrested them. They were released on bail on Saturday and are set to be summoned for questioning by forest officials.

Rao had spotted the monkey, which had entered his residence apparently in search of food and beat it with a stick and hung it from a tree with the help of his friend.

In the video of the incident, Rao could also be seen instructing his pet dogs to bite the monkey, which was fighting for its life.

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July 31,2020

Amaravati, Jul 31: Nine people have died after allegedly consuming sanitiser in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh today, the police said.

Prakasam district Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal said the people had been consuming sanitiser for the past few days, mixing it with water and soft drinks.

"We are also investigating whether they laced the sanitiser with any other toxic substances," the official said.

"Their family members say these people have been consuming sanitiser for the past ten days. We are sending the sanitiser stocks, being sold in the area, for examination," he added.

Kurichedu in Prakasam district has been under lockdown due to rise in coronavirus cases and hence, liquor shops have also been shut since the past few days.

Habitual drinkers were said to be consuming sanitisers that have alcohol content, apart from illicitly distilled arrack.

The police said two beggars near a temple were the first to fall victim on Thursday night. While one of them was found dead at the spot, another died in the government hospital in Darsi town, they said.

A third person was also taken to the Darsi hospital late on Thursday night after he fell unconscious but he was declared brought dead. Six others who fell ill after allegedly consuming sanitiser, died this morning.

Others who fell ill after consuming sanitiser are undergoing treatment at their residences in the village, the police added.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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