Disastrous night out claims 3 lives

December 1, 2012

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Bangalore, December 1: Three people were killed and two sustained grievous injuries after their car rammed a road median, hit the overbridge pillar and fell in the path of a speeding goods vehicle near Kengeri Thursday midnight.

The dead have been identified as Sachin Shetty, 27, Devaraj, 27, and Amaan, 21.?The injured, Syed Saleem, 18, and Syed Habeeb, 21, are battling for their life at a private hospital in Kengeri. All the five are residents of Gandhinagar, Kengeri Satellite Town, said Kengeri traffic police.

The five had gathered in Kengeri and decided to have dinner at a dhaba near Kumbalgodu. They set off for Kumbalgodu after Sachin borrowed the car of his friend Pradeep.

Police said Sachin was driving the car at breakneck speed. As they approached the overbridge connecting Tumkur and Kanakapura, half a kilometre from the Kengeri traffic police station, Sachin lost control of the vehicle and slammed the brakes on.



The car veered off to the centre median and struck the overbridge pillar at high speed. Out of control, the car then crashed onto the incoming traffic lane. A goods vehicle, which had been speeding towards Kengeri, rammed the car and dragged it for some distance, police added.

The car has been mangled beyond recognition, police said. The two survivors, both unconscious, were trapped in the vehicle. The goods vehicle driver fled the scene. Passersbys alerted police who rushed the two youths to a hospital.

According to Dr Arun Naik, senior neurosurgeon at the BGS Global Hospital, Salim had suffered a skull fracture and minor bleeding in the brain. “He is out of danger and will recover,” he said but explained that Habeeb had suffered a massive facial bone fracture.


A rib had also fractured, accidentally puncturing the lungs. Habeeb underwent facial bone fracture fixation surgery at the hospital on Friday. Doctors have also conducted a procedure to drain the blood from the lungs. Naik added that the men are out of danger as of Friday.

The bodies of the deceased were moved to Victoria Hospital where an autopsy was conducted. Families of the victims expressed shock at the accident. Raghuram Shetty, Sachin Shetty’s father, told Deccan Herald that his family was in a disbelief. “My son completed BCom and was working in a hotel at Kolhapur in Maharastra for sometime.
He moved to Bangalore three years ago and started a juice centre. I thought he had settled down in life and planned something for his future. But he is no more.”

Sachin’s brother Nitin Shetty, who runs a juice centre at Kumbalgodu, said Sachin was a teetotaller. “He had not yet mastered driving. When I heard people discussing an early morning accident on Nice?Road, I did not imagine that my brother was one of the victims,” he said.

Sachin was the eldest of the four children. A native of Murthadi in Karkala, Udupi district, he was running the Lakshmi Juice Centre at Hoysala Circle in Kengeri Satellite Town. Devaraj, from Tamil Nadu, who was married with two children, had been employed a shop assistant. Amaan had been running a garage at Kengeri, while Saleem and Habeeb were welders.

Mehboob, the victims’ friend, told Deccan?Herald that Sachin may have lost control of the vehicle after the car’s front tyre burst. Police, however, have not ruled out drunk-driving. It is suspected that all the five were under the influence of alcohol.

A crane was used to remove the mangled remains of the car from the road. Police have seized the goods vehicle.

This is the first major accident to take place here, after the Kengeri traffic police station was commissioned on November 21. Residents said the police should take strict action against rash driving.




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The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.

The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.

District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.

The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.

The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.

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Nikhil Gavhane, who worked in a grocery shop, hanged himself as he had taken money from a person and was stressed over repayment, an official said.

"He was depressed since a week," the Imambada police station official said.

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June 7,2020

Lucknow, Jun 7: From Anamika Shukla to Anamika Singh and finally Priya. The primary school teacher who was found to be teaching simultaneously in 25 schools, not only has multiple jobs but also multiple identities.

Anamika was arrested on Saturday from Kasganj district when she went to submit her resignation after she was served a show cause notice by the Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA), Anjali Agarwal.

Agarwal informed the police and Anamika was arrested.

According to the Kasganj BSA, Anamika Shukla, originally a resident of Kaimganj in Farukhabad is currently doing her B.Ed from the Raghukul Degree College in Gonda. Her other documents are also from the same college.

During interrogation, Anamika Shukla said that she was actually Anamika Singh but as questioning proceeded, it turned out that she was Priya from Farrukhabad.

She has been booked for cheating and forgery under IPC sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will etc.) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating).

According to the police, the woman claimed that she had paid Rs five lakh to a Mainpuri-based man to get this job.

She used Anamika Shukla's credentials to get the job while her real name is Priya, daughter of Mahipal, a resident of the Lakhanpur village of the Kayamganj police circle in Farrukhabad district.

Soron station house officer (SHO) Ripudaman Singh said, "During interrogation, the accused initially claimed to be Anamika Singh, daughter of Subhas Singh. However, her documents are in the name of Anamika Shukla, daughter of Subhas Chandra Shukla."

The accused claimed that she paid the hefty amount to Raj, a Mainpuri-based man for the job and was posted in Faridpur Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) since August 2018.

The police are now trying to zero in on the man who got her the job.

The police also believe that it could be possible that multiple candidates used credentials and 'eligibility' of Anamika Shukla - the real one still remains elusive.

According to the Uttar Pradesh government, five more Anamika Shuklas have been found working in KGBVs in Ambedkar Nagar, Baghpat, Aligarh, Saharanpur and Prayagraj districts. She has reportedly drawn a combined salary of Rs one crore in the past one year.

Teachers in KGBV, a residential setup for girls from weaker sections of the society, are appointed on contract and are paid approximately Rs 30,000 per month. Each block in a district has one Kasturba Gandhi school.

Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi said that the incident was 'shocking' and the police would unravel the entire racket in the case. "No officer, employee who connived with this teacher in providing her job at KGBV and subsequently hiding it, will be spared," he said.

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