Minister’s son dies in road accident

June 26, 2012

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Chennai, June 26: The 27-year-old son of state minister for food and cooperation Sellur K Raju died early on Monday of injuries sustained earlier in a road accident on NSC Bose Road.

Around 11.50pm on Sunday, police said, R Tamizhmani was riding his Enfield bike (TN-59 AU 9555) to Broadway from Parry's Corner when the vehicle hit a speed breaker on NSC Bose Road. He lost control and was thrown to the ground.

"He was not wearing a helmet and suffered severe injuries to the head. He was also injured in the chest," said a traffic official.

Alerted of the incident by a few shop-keepers in the area, police rushed to the spot and took him to the Government General Hospital from where he was shifted to a private hospital.

He was admitted at the hospital around 1.30am and was put on a ventilator. He died without responding to the treatment around 2.20am.

After a post-mortem at Government General Hospital his body was taken to Madurai, his home town, police said.

The Elephant Gate traffic investigation police who initially registered a case under IPC section 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) later altered the section to 304 A (causing death by negligence).

Tamizhmani, the only son of Sellur K Raju, completed his diploma in yoga and was teaching yoga, police sources said. Tamzhilmani was living with his father, mother and two sisters at the ministers' quarters on Greenways Road, Chennai.

An official press release said that chief minister J Jayalalithaa spoke over the phone to the bereaved family and expressed her condolences, while minister Natham R Viswanathan placed a wreath on her behalf. Several ministers and MLAs paid their last respects.



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April 9,2020

Gonda, Apr 9: A man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his room as he was missing his wife stuck at her parents' place due to the lockdown, police said.

The incident took place in Radha Kund locality here on Wednesday, they said, adding the deceased has been identified as Rakesh Soni, 32.

As per information, Soni's wife had gone to her parents' place and was stuck there due to the lockdown and he was missing her due to which he committed suicide, Inspector Alok Rao said.

A probe is on in the mater, he said.

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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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