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Haryana BJP chief’s son re-arrested for attempting to abduct girl

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August 9, 2017

Chandigarh, Aug 9: The Chandigarh police today finally re-arrested Vikas Barala, the accused son of Haryana BJP president, and his accomplice after they were charged with attempted abduction in the high profile Varnika Kundu stalking case.

 The arrest and pressing of fresh charges against the accused came five days after the incident that arguably exposed the ‘shoddy’ investigation by the cops in an alleged attempt to protect the politician's son.

The bail earlier granted to the accused was cancelled. The two accused were taken into custody. Their interrogation continued for long inside the police station.

The new IPC sections (365 and 511) added against the accused are non-bailable which means that the VIP accused law graduate Vikas will have to go to jail. The charges attract a maximum punishment of 7-years, Punjab and Haryana High Court advocate Mohit Garg told Deccan Herald.

Chandigarh DGP TS Luthra said the accused will be presented before the Court tomorrow. He said the police will seek their police remand which is necessary to corroborate evidence they have gathered so far in the case.

Victim Varnika, daughter of senior bureaucrat VS Kundu, reacted saying its a great development, but just the beginning of the process to justice.

Earlier in the day, the police pasted summons outside his house directing Vikas to appear before the police at 11 am on Wednesday. Nearly three hours later, Vikas and the other accused Ashish drove in an SUV to the police station.

The police had been dilly-dallying to charge Vikas under sections of attempted abduction. But amid allegations of succumbing to pressure and shoddy probe, the police found it difficult to resists criticism from various quarters including the media and the civil society.

After the flip-flop on the CCTV camera footage, it has now come to light that the blood and urine samples of the two accused were not taken to the hospital. This could have been crucial evidence in the case.

The duty doctor and the police said the two accused refused their blood and urine samples despite the doctor noting that the two were drunk.

It has also come to fore that BJP president Subhash Barala tried frantically to contact Varnika’s father VS Kundu that night when the incident took place. The father did not accept his calls.

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January 4,2020

Kota, Jan 4: Following the death of an infant in the morning, the death toll in JK Lon Hospital here has risen to 107, officials said on Saturday.

A three-member state government committee of doctors, who was sent to investigate the matter on December 23 and 24, found that Kota's JK Lone Hospital is short of beds and it requires improvement.

However, the committee gave a clean chit to the doctors for any lapses over the recent death of infants admitted there.

A Central government team reached the hospital on Saturday to take stock of the situation.

As per the government report, at least 91 infants lost their lives at the government hospital in December last year.

Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Chief Secretary of Rajasthan to submit a detailed report within 4 weeks about the steps being taken to address the issue.

The Commission also asked the Chief Secretary to ensure that such deaths of the children do not recur in future due to lack of infrastructure and health facilities at the hospitals.

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Bloomberg
July 27,2020

New Delhi, Jul 27: India’s coronavirus epidemic is now growing at the fastest in the world, increasing 20% over the last week to more than 14 lakh confirmed cases, according to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Tracker.

Infections in the South Asian nation of 130 crore people have reached 14.3 lakh, including 32,771 deaths, India’s health ministry said, with daily cases close to a record 50,000 on Monday. India is only trailing the US and Brazil now in the number of confirmed infections, but its growth in new cases is the fastest.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are among the states where the maximum number of daily cares are being reported. The world’s second-most populous country has been ramping up testing, with 515,472 samples taken on Sunday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Still, India and Brazil have some of the world’s lowest testing rates, with 11.8 tests and 11.93 tests per 1,000 people respectively, compared to the US with 152.98 tests per 1,000 and Russia with 184.34, according to Our World in Data, a project based at the University of Oxford in the UK.

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May 20,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, May 20: As COVID-19 count surges to 666 with 24 new cases reported on Wednesday, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that if cases keep increasing in this manner, then the State will be in a 'serious situation.'

Out of 24 new patients, 12 have returned from abroad, 11 others from other States and one has been infected by a contact. Now, total positive cases in the State stand at 666 including 161 active cases, Chief Minister Vijayan said at press meet.

"If the number of COVID-19 cases increases like this, then the State will be in a serious situation. We have given more relaxations in lockdown guidelines. We need to have more strict measures in some areas," he said.

Speaking about the people who are coming to Kerala from other States, he stressed that all people coming from outside are "not carriers." However, the State has to tighten the security as some among those people are "carriers."

The Chief Minister while clearing that there is no restriction for the people to come back to Kerala, said: "Lakhs of people residing in other states cannot come together."

"There is no relaxation in containment areas. Those who came from outside have to be in quarantine. This is their moral responsibility. The State has implemented home quarantine successfully. Various level committees like ward committee, neighbours and residential associations are monitoring the people in quarantine," he said.

Chief Minister Vijayan has directed the police to visit people under home quarantine to take their report and district panchayat to make sure that all panchayats are working in a proper manner.

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