Bravehearts rescue five from burning building

November 3, 2012

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Bangalore, November 3: Two women and three children from an Indiranagar family were rescued on Friday from a burning building by alert neighbours. Among the rescued was an eightmonth-old toddler. Around 3.15pm, a worker at Rishi medical shop off CMH Road noticed flames leaping out of a house located across the road. The house was on the second floor of a three-storey building, which had a retail chain shop on the ground floor and a vacant office space on the first.

The druggist, who didn't want to be named, rushed out of his shop, screaming "fire, fire" . The fire reportedly started on the first floor and spread to the second.

As per the call records of the fire department, Pradeep , a passerby, made a call around 3.25pm. "I saw the fire and learnt about some people trapped in the house. I called 101," Pradeep, who identified himself as a businessman and declined to reveal his second name.


The fire sent a thick black smoke into the sky. The druggist and passersby feared for those stuck in the smoke-filled house. With stones, they broke the building's glass facade and let the smoke out. The two women and three children, meanwhile , ran up to the terrace.

With the help of a ladder that was put across to the next building, the women passed on their kids to bravehearts , and they rushed down the stairs to safety.

A sub-inspector of police from the Indiranagar station patrolling the area rushed to the building on fire and drew up a rescue plan. Two women and three children trapped in the burning house were rescued in the nick of time. As part of the rescue plan, G Y Giriraj, sub-inspector , and seven others went to the terrace of the adjacent Clinical Research Institute of India building.

They placed a wooden ladder across the 10-foot-wide gap between the two buildings.

Among the rescuers were Kailash Mondol and Vinodh, security guards of former JD(S) MLA NR Suryanarayana Reddy. The duo was staying at New Shanti Sagar Lodge opposite the building on fire.

Said Vinodh: "We, too, went up to the terrace. A do-gooder provided a ladder. The trapped women handed over the kids to us and they rushed down the stairs to safety."

The two women and three children were treated for minor injuries at a hospital. The two women — Kusum, and Kesar — were daughters-in-law of Mahaveer Chand, the head of the family and building owner. The three children are Chand's grandchildren.


The fire was noticed around 3.15pm. Initially, smoke started coming out of the first floor of the building and people started shouting. Those who were inside the Reliance Fresh store came out. When the public started breaking windows, flames leapt out of the building. Some men then went up to the terrace of the adjacent building and rescued children trapped in the top-floor house.


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May 21,2020

Bengaluru, May 21:Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru, collapsed and died soon after getting down from a state-run KSRTC bus that brought him and others to the Chikkabanavara Railway station on Wednesday.

According to police, fellow labourers said he had been ailing for quite some time.

The cause of his death would be known only after a post-mortem, police added.

Karnataka government has been sending back thousands of migrant workers stranded in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown by arranging the special trains.

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January 3,2020

Unnao, Jan 3: The Uttar Pradesh Police has submitted a charge sheet in a court here in connection with the death of a 23-year-old Unnao rape victim, who was allegedly set ablaze by five men.

Additional Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Pandey, who is heading a Special Investigation Team in the case, said the charge sheet was submitted on Wednesday.

"There is ample proof against the five accused persons, and the charge sheet was prepared based on those evidences," he said on Thursday.

The 23-year-old Unnao rape victim, who was airlifted to Delhi and admitted to Safdarjung Hospital with 90 per cent burns after being set on fire, died following a cardiac arrest on December 6, 2019.

The woman was set afire by five men, including two of her alleged rapists, on December 5 morning when she was going to Rae Bareli to attend a court hearing in the rape case filed by her.

In her statement to Sub Divisional Magistrate Dayashankar Pathak, the woman had said she was attacked when she reached Gaura turn near her home on her way to the court.

She had specifically named Harishankar Trivedi, Ram Kishore Trivedi, Umesh Bajpai, Shivam Trivedi and Shubham Trivedi as the persons who set her on fire.

The woman had also alleged that Shivam and Shubham Trivedi had abducted and raped her in December 2018.

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July 28,2020

Noida, Jul 28: A doctor admitted at a private hospital in Noida has been accused of sexually harassing a patient in his isolation ward, where both were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, the police said.

The 20-year-old woman, in her complaint to the police, alleged that the incident took place on Monday and based on that a case was filed at the local expressway police station, they said.

A senior police official said an investigation is underway and there might be lapses on part of the hospital which allegedly admitted a man and a woman in the same isolation ward, in violation of the norms.

The woman and the doctor had tested positive for coronavirus last week, according to officials.

"The woman was in the isolation ward of the private hospital. There was a man, a medical practitioner, who too was infected with coronavirus and was sharing the ward with her," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, Ranvijay Singh said.

He said the woman alleged molestation and upon being informed, the police immediately lodged a case and initiated a probe into the matter.

"There appears to be some irresponsibility on part of the hospital too. We are communication with the medical departments to check whether the patients were being kept in accordance with the guidelines," Mr Singh said.

He said the accused is still in isolation but the police will reach out for his statement following due protocols of COVID-19.

"All necessary action will be taken as per the truth that will emerge after a thorough investigation," Mr Singh said.

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