Engineering girl commits suicide after classmates harass her, remove her from WhatsApp group

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February 8, 2018

Bengaluru, Feb 8: A teenage engineering student hanged herself from a ceiling fan at her home near Rajarajeshwari Nagar in southwest Bengaluru, on Tuesday afternoon after she was allegedly bullied and harassed by the classmates.

The victim is Meghana C, a first-semester civil engineering student at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Kumaraswamy Layout. She is survived by her banker-parents, Chandrashekar and Lata, and elder sister Bhavana, an engineer.

According to the police, Meghana left for college on Tuesday around 8.30 am and returned home while her parents were still at work. The incident came to light when Meghana's sister returned home from tuitions around 1 pm and found her sister's room locked from the inside. She peeped through the window and found Meghana hanging from a ceiling fan, the police said.

She informed her parents over the phone and with the help of a few neighbours broke open the door of her sister's room and brought Meghana down. But by then Meghana was dead. Meghana's parents said that their daughter was a victim of harassment in college. The harassment started in November last year.

Her classmates harassed her over a missing mobile phone, following which a professor admonished her and even counselled her, they said.

The parents also said that Meghana complained that she was treated as an outcast in the class when she contested the class representative elections. Her classmates stopped talking to her, did not share notes and even removed her from a WhatsApp group used by students to share notes, the parents said. Meghana's parents also said that they had even met her professors airing their daughter's concerns, but nothing changed.

While the Chandrashekars alleged that bullying by four classmates and a faculty member pushed Meghana to take the extreme step, the college said she was irregular to class and had flunked in a couple of subjects in the first semester. Police have booked the four students and faculty member for abetting Meghana's suicide.

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Suresh Kalladka
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

Should debar those young criminals if that proved

Ganesh
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

That criminal students and staffs should thrown out of the college

Mohan
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

She might have some problem. but sad. probe needed reveal all truths

Unknown
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

This news is just family version of the victim. College, classmates version yet to come

Hari
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

Poor girl.. Without proper evidence how that classmates harrassed her..! strange

shaji
 - 
Thursday, 8 Feb 2018

very sad.  All students need to be respected.  Its unfortunate that she was harassed by her own classmates.  What a shame on these hate mongers?  What did they gain now?  Hope they are satisfied now and thumping their own back for the job well done.   Shit.   Students reasonable for the unnatural death of Meghana should be booked and jailed giving a lesson to other students.   College management is also responsible for this for taking the case easily.    I express my heartfelt condolences to close relatives of Meghana.   May God bless her.   I could not understand why are we losing such youne ones.    We should find some solution.  The only way for this is to respect others and their feelings.  Dont hate any one and dont take anyone for granted.  I ask the students to put themselves in the place of Meghana and think.   You have killed her.   You have taken her life.  God will not spare you unless you repent and beg for God's excuse and first of all ask for forgiveness from Meghana's parents and take oath not to do this with any one else throughout your life.   College Management should give instructions to all the students and make them cautious that anyone found  guilty will be debarred from college.

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Bengaluru, Mar 26: Karnataka government has warned strict penal action against landlords or house-owners under provisions of law for forcing doctors, paramedical staff and healthcare professionals to vacate their rented residences citing COVID-19 spread through them as the reason.

Stating that lot of complaints have been received in this regard, an order issued by Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare department Jawaid Akhtar said such behaviour amounted to obstructing public servant in discharging their duties./

Noting that the state government has issued Karnataka Epidemic Diseases (COVID-19) regulations 2020 for prevention and containment of the virus, it directed Deputy Commissioners of the district, Commissioner and Joint Commissioner of BBMP (civic body in Bengaluru), Commissioners of Municipal Corporations and District Deputy Commissioner of Police to take action against such incidents.

"Strict penal action should be taken against such landlords or house-owners under relevant provisions of law and submit an action taken report on a daily basis to the office of Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department," the order read.

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Bengaluru, Jan 5: Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries Jagadish Shettar warned of strict action against officers who demand bribe from farmers while acquiring land.

Mr Shettar, who paid a surprise visit to defense, aerospace hi-tech industry layout in Haraluru, Devanahalli in Bengaluru Rural district, warned the officials who demand a bribe for sanctioning compensation funds.

He said, 'Lands have been acquired from farmers for the development of the industrial area. It's the duty of state government to provide compensation to these farmers. Complaints must be registered against officials who demand a bribe for functioning compensation funds.'

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June 4,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 4: The Karnataka government has tweaked quarantine requirements for people arriving from Maharashtra, raising the isolation time from a fortnight to three weeks, an official said on Wednesday.

"Returnees from Maharashtra will be sent to institutional quarantine for seven days, followed by 14 days strict home quarantine, total 21 days," tweeted Health Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey.

The 21-day quarantine regimen is for all asymptomatic people returning from Maharashtra, considering most of the Covid cases in Karnataka are having domestic travel history to that state.

If any of the asymptomatic people develop symptoms during the isolation, they will be subjected to a Covid test.

However, some asymptomatic individuals from Maharashtra have been provided some exceptions from the three-week quarantine and designated as special category passengers.

Special category passengers include people who suffered a death in family, pregnant women, children below 10, elderly people above 60, individuals suffering from serious illness and human distress.

Similarly, the department has also made some provisions for business travellers from Maharashtra.

"To establish that one is a business visitor, (that) person should show confirmed return flight or train ticket which should not be more than seven days later from the date of arrival," ordered Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar.

Similarly, if a business visitor is arriving on road, he should provide the address proof of the person in Karnataka he intends to meet.

Additionally, such a person should also produce a Covid negative test certificate which is not more than two days old.

"One does not have a Covid negative test certificate such a person should go for institutional quarantine for two days within which Covid test should be conducted at his own cost. After the test result is negative, that person is exempted from quarantine," he said.

However, business travellers have been exempted from hand stamping.

Amending the Sunday orders, Bhaskar, has enhanced the quarantine requirements for Maharashtra returnees.

Many conditions for visitors from other states remain mostly unchanged as notified on Sunday.

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