Fighting over Facebook post, class X boy stabs schoolmate

May 17, 2012
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New Delhi, May 17: A picture posted on Facebook led to such bitterness among two Class X students of a well-known private school in central Delhi that one of them stabbed the other with a paper cutter in school on Wednesday morning.

The victim suffered six stab wounds, with the cutter slashing through his veins. He was rushed to the Ganga Ram Hospital in Rajender Nagar where an operation was conducted to stop the bleeding. The boy is now reported to be stable.

On Sunday, the attacker had warned the victim through a text message that he would be attacked in school. Not taking the threat seriously, the victim deleted the message after sharing it with friends and did not inform his parents or the school authorities about it, police said.

Friends and family members of the victim said the two boys, both 15 years old, turned bitter rivals after they attended a party some time ago. "Someone clicked a group photo at the party. The accused allegedly circulated a cropped photo of the victim with another student which was objected to by the victim. This led to tension between the two,'' said a family relative.

The attack took place around 7.25am near the school staircase. "The boys studied in different sections of Class X. For the past few days, there was some animosity between the two," said the school principal when contacted on phone.

"The school starts at 7.30am. These two boys arrived at the staircase and started fighting. One of them attacked the other with a sharp object, leaving gashes on his left hand. We have a tie-up with Ganga Ram Hospital and the injured student was taken there. Since it was a medico-legal case, the hospital authorities asked us to join the investigations,'' the principal said.

The principal said the school's prime concern was to ensure the quick recovery of the victim. "We can then decide on some disciplinary action," he added.

According to the victim's mother, the teenager had earlier complained of being bullied by the accused. "We got a call in the morning that we should come to the school. Twenty minutes later, we were told that my son was being taken to hospital as he had suffered injuries,'' she said.

She said she became aware of the alleged SMS only on Wednesday. "He had deleted the SMS threatening him of an impeding attack by the same boy,'' the mother claimed. The victim's father is a cloth merchant. Both boys live in west Delhi.

The accused's mother said her son was "repentant" over his actions. "He has told me that he suddenly lost his cool when he heard bad words spoken about one of his sisters. However, we have told him his actions cannot be justified. He is at present not feeling well and has been advised rest,'' she said.

Additional CP (central) Devesh Srivastav said a DD entry had been made about the attack at Rajender Nagar police station. Sources said the child will be asked to be present before the Juvenile Justice Board.

A Ganga Ram Hospital spokesperson said the boy was recovering well. "We found he had suffered six sharp wounds. But no major injury was noticed.''




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May 1,2020

Lucknow, May 1: Six members of a family were allegedly hacked to death by another family member over a property dispute in Gudauli village in the Banthra area on the outskirts of the city on Thursday, police said.

The accused, Ajay Singh (26), went to the local police station after committing the crime and surrendered, they added.

Singh allegedly had a heated argument with the family members over a property and attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon, the police said.

The accused allegedly killed his mother, father, elder brother, his wife and two children -- a son and a daughter -- they added.

The victims were identified as Amar (60), Ramsakhi (55), Arun (40), Ramdulari (35), Saurabh (7) and Sarika (2).

When asked, Commissioner of Police Sujeet Pandey said six members of a family were killed and the accused surrendered before the police.

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June 10,2020

Jun 10: In a suspected case of honor killing in Telangana, a 20-year old woman was allegedly smothered to death by her parents for being in love with a man from another caste, becoming pregnant and refusing to undergo an abortion, police said on Tuesday.

The parents killed their daughter using a pillow while she was asleep in the early hours of June 7 in their house in Kalukuntla in Jogulamba-Gadwal district and sought to project it as natural death, claiming she died of a heart attack.

However, following specific information and suspicion raised by the village secretary over the death of the woman, a college student, a probe was launched and the couple arrested on charges of murder under Indian Penal Code section 302 after post-mortem, police said.

The parents decided to kill the woman, the youngest of their three daughters, a day after she was found pregnant and refused to undergo an abortion, police said.

The woman had fallen in love with the man while pursuing her degree course in Kurnool district in neighboring Andhra Pradesh and informed her parents about it after she was found pregnant during an examination by a doctor. Her parents feared that their daughter may elope with her lover and brought pressure on her to go for abortion.

Though initially, she agreed, later she declined, following which they killed her and told everyone that their daughter died of heart attack, the police official said. When a police team went to their house and insisted on a post-mortem after noticing some marks on her body indicating a struggle, the parents tried to stop it, saying there was no need.

Later, police shifted the body to a hospital where a post-mortem revealed the woman was "throttled to death". Her parents during interrogation confessed to killing their daughter, the official said, adding they were arrested.

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May 26,2020

New Delhi, May 26: A massive fire broke out on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in the slums of the Tughlaqabad area in south east Delhi in which over 250 shanties were gutted, however, no one was injured, fire officials said.

Atul Garg, Chief Fire Officer, told IANS, "We came to know about the fire in the slums around 12.15 a.m. following which 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. And the fire was brought under control by 4 a.m."

He said, the Tughalaqbad slums have over 500 shanties, out of which over 250 have been destroyed in the fire.

He said, it took time for the fire tenders to reach the spot as it was on the hills, but the fire was doused within four hours and by 8 a.m. cooling off procedure has also been completed.

When asked if there is any casualty in the incident, he said, "No injury or casualty has been reported."

He also said that as of now the actual reason for the fire is not known. "But we are trying to find out the reason of the fire," Garg added.

South East Deputy Commissioner of Police R.P. Meena said, "In the night it seemed that almost 500 shanties were gutted. However, in the morning it became clear that only 250 shanties have been gutted in fire."

He said, the South East district police after receiving the call also rushed the ambulances and the local police team in the area for rescue operation. Meena further said that very few people were residing in the shanties, and the people came out of their shanties after the fire broke out in one of them.

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