Six-year-old ‘bisi oota’ victim dies of burns

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December 17, 2011

Mysore, December 17: The six-year-old school girl, who had been admitted for burns after falling into a piping hot sambar, succumbed at a hospital here on Friday.

Apoorva B was a second standard student at the Government Higher Primary School in Katte Hunsur in HD?Kote taluk in the district. She was standing in a queue for ‘bisi oota’ at her school on December 14 at 12.45 pm, when the accident occurred.

Apoorva had tripped and fallen into the sambar container when a girl standing behind her rushed ahead. Ravichandra, a teacher accompanied by headmaster Srinivas, cooks and others somehow managed to lift Apoorva from the container and shifted her to a primary health centre in Hullahalli. On the advice of the doctor at the PHC, she had been shifted to KR?Hospital in Mysore for further treatment. However, the girl breathed her last on Friday.

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Zilla panchayat chief executive officer G?Satyavathy, who met the girl’s mother Mahadevi, handed over an exgratia of Rs 30,000 from Teachers Cooperative Association.

Satyavathy told Deccan Herald that she has written to the primary and secondary education minister Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri as there were no guidelines over issuing relief to relatives of the deceased in such cases.

The mother of the girl has been given a job at the same school as cook. For laxity, the headmaster and three cooks have been suspended, the officer added.

This follows a report from a team of nine officers led by Narasimhaiah, who had been entrusted with the task of investigating into the incident.?According to the report submitted, the kitchen staff at the school had kept the hot container of food items nearby while serving the food. Instead they could have arranged for serving the food at the vast space available on the premises, with small vessels to serve the food.

Moreover, no teacher was assigned the job of supervising the process at that time.

Heartrending scenes were witnessed at the village at the time of the funeral of the girl. Director of Akshara Dasoha B?G?Nayak said chief minister and the legislators have expressed their condolences over the incident. He promised that necessary assistance would be given to the mother of the deceased.

For Mahadevi, her daughter’s death was a double blow. When her husband Basavashetty deserted her, she returned to her parent’s place along with her son Abhishek and daughter Apoorva.

She had been working as a daily wager. Abhishek is studying in the same school where the tragedy struck.

Waking up to the gravity of the situation, the zilla panchayat chief executive officer has issued some guidelines to be followed henceforth to check recurrence of such incidents. The food cooked in kitchen should be brought outside in smaller vessels for serving. Kitchen should be declared a prohibited area.

Two teachers have to be deputed for supervision. The kitchen staff should wear clothes that are fire resistant and phone numbers to be contacted at the time of exigency should be prominently displayed. Also, students should not be engaged in any labour.

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May 6,2020

A man posed as Superintendent of Police (SP), called up a subordinate police official and asked him to get his mobile phone repaired or face the consequences. But, his bluff was later called and the man landed in lockup.

Azamgarh SP Triveni Singh said the 23-year-old youth, Shubham Upadhyay, is the son of a farmer. He was preparing for competitive exams when his phone developed a snag on Saturday. He tried to reach out to local mechanics, but they were unavailable to fix it due to the lockdown.

Upadhyay used a free caller identification app to call up the in-charge of the Kotwali police station, K. K. Gupta, and threatened to shunt him out, if he failed to swiftly get the work done. Gupta grew suspicious and eventually caught the youth.

n his statement to the police, Shubham Upadhyay said, "On Sunday noon, I tried to breach the district borders to reach Lucknow to repair my phone, but since there was heavy police presence and barricading, I returned home. Later, I installed a free caller identification app in my handset and mentioned the name as SP Azamgarh and even uploaded a photo of the cop to appear genuine."

He first called SHO, Kotwali to get the phone repaired and was told the handset would be picked up from the SP office in an hour. Then, he called a businessman to bring his SUV and hand over his mobile to the SHO.

But when Upadhyay called the police again to suggest a separate meeting point, he raised suspicion. When the SHO tried to confirm the venue, Upadhyay got hesitant and said he would send a peon.

"I suddenly realised something was fishy and rang up the public relation officer of SP Azamgarh, who denied any such order from the SP. When the caller's number was scanned, it displayed the name of SP Azamgarh," said SHO Gupta.

A trap was laid and when the SHO reached the venue, he found one Praveen Shukla sitting in the vehicle. Police got the address of the accused from Shukla and reached Upadhyay's home in Bilariya locality and arrested him.

Upadhyay has been booked under IT Act and for threatening a public servant.

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May 27,2020

Mumbai, May 27: "Crime Patrol" actress Preksha Mehta has committed suicide. She was 25.

Preksha took her life by hanging from a ceiling fan on Monday night at her residence in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, reports timesofindia.com.

The actress reportedly left a suicide note but it does not mention why she decided to end her life. As per reports, Preksha went into depression due to lack of work amid the lockdown.

Her last few social media posts hint at mental agony she was going through. In her last Instagram story, Preksha wrote: "Sabse bura hota hai sapno ka mar jaana" (the worst thing is the death of your dreams)."

Apart from "Crime Patrol", Preksha has appeared in TV soaps like "Meri Durga" and "Laal Ishq".

This is the second suicide by a TV actor during the ongoing lockdown, when all shooting activity has come to a halt for two months now. A few days ago, actor Manmeet Grewal took his life by hanging from the ceiling fan at his Mumbai home. Reportedly, the actor was in a financial crisis and had run into huge debts.

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February 6,2020

Kochi, Feb 6: A 46-year-old Thailand national was allegedly raped by two men here, following which they were arrested, police said on Thursday.

The accused hailing from a north Kerala district have been arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman.

Police said the accused-- Mohammed Insaf and his friend Ansaruddin from Kondotty in Malappuram district were arrested after recording the statement of the victim.

The woman from Thailand had been a Facebook friend of Insaf for the last seven months after she enrolled her child in a school in Malappuram district.

The woman who came from Bangkok recently to visit her child and was staying in a hotel here.

When Insaf came to meet the woman, he was accompanied by his friend Ansaruddin and both allegedly raped the woman at the hotel room, police said.

All formalities including medical examination of the woman were completed, police said.

The accused will be produced before the court on Thursday, they added.

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