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Girl kills 'molester', surrenders to cops

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March 28, 2012

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Midnapore, March 28: A young girl fought off her alleged molester - her 44-year-old cousin - with a spade but ended up killing him in her house in Keshpur's Damodar Chowk. She walked some 8-9 km to Keshpur police station and surrendered even as the dead man's neighbours staged protests in the locality to have her arrested.


The alleged molester, Sk Salauddin, was a married man with a child. Police took the 24-year-old girl in custody and questioned her for hours. Late in the evening, she was placed under arrest after Salauddin's widow Hasina Begum filed a complaint, accusing her of luring him to her house and murdering him in a planned manner.


According to the girl's version of events, the circumstances were different. She was alone in the house, studying for her SSC exams, when Salauddin entered just after noon. The rest of the family had gone to attend a relative's last rites. The spade was lying about the house (since it was a farmer family) and could have been a weapon of opportunity for the girl, say sources.


Salauddin allegedly took advantage of the empty house and molested the girl, who picked up a spade and swung at him. The fight seems to have gone on for some time because the screams drew a large crowd before Salauddin's dying cry was heard. Locals then entered the house and found him lying on the ground, bleeding heavily from a head wound. They took him to hospital but he died on the way.


Salauddin's neighbours staged protests demanding her arrest. While police claim they went to the house and detained her, the girl says she walked to the police station to surrender. Keshpur circle-inspector Shyamal Das said police questioned the girl and her mother.


A police officer said that every citizen has a right to defend themselves against any attack or offence, it needs to be proved that there was indeed a threat to life or body. "While there is a legal provision for self-defence, it needs to be proved in court. The person needs to establish that there was a genuine threat to her, which prompted her to attack in self-defence," senior criminal lawyer Milon Mukherjee said.


Recently, a woman fought off a rape attempt by slashing at her attacker with a razor. She almost severed his private parts. The mother of three was attacked in her home by a middle-aged neighbour in Alipur in northwest Delhi. To save herself, she fought back with a razor, critically injuring him. The Delhi Police did not press any charges against her. The would-be rapist was slapped with a case under Sections 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman) and 354 (assault on a woman to outrage her modesty) of IPC.


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Agencies
January 16,2020

Cuttack, Jan 16: At least 15 passengers were injured as five coaches of the Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Lokmanya Tilak Express derailed and three more were displaced after colliding with a goods train amid heavy fog near Cuttack in Odisha on Thursday, railway officials said.

Railway officials had earlier said that 25 passengers were injured in the incident but later officers who reached the site reported that four passengers were found to have suffered major injuries and 11 had received minor injuries.

Passengers with major injuries have been sent to Cuttack Medical College. All passengers are stated to be out of danger.

Officials said the accident happened when the passenger train hit the guard van of a good train around 7 am between Salagaon and Nergundi stations.

The officials said there was heavy fog at the site but it was not clear what led to the accident. The speedometer of both the trains have been seized for inquiry, East Coast Railway Spokesperson J P Mishra said.

Buses have been arranged for all remaining passengers to move towards their destination.

Cuttack is around 10-12 km away and Bhubaneswar(Terminating station) is 35 km.

The accident disrupted train services in the area.

Five trains have been affected due to the accident where restoration work in underway. These include the Bhubaneswar-Mumbai LTT SF Express, the Puri-Rourkela Express, Dhanbad-Bhubaneshwar Rajyarani Express which have all been diverted via Naraj.

"East Coast Railway acknowledges with deep gratitude help of nearby locals and villagers who have displayed great humanitarian values and come to the rescue of injured passengers," Mishra said.

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News Network
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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February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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