Woman allegedly raped in Bangalore-Tinsukia Express

September 25, 2016

Tinsukia, Sep 25: One person was arrested and the police are on the look-out for two more following a complaint lodged by a young woman that she was allegedly raped in the Bangalore-Tinsukia Express train on Thursday night just before the train had reached New Tinsukia, its last station.

railwayThe woman, who was traveling alone from Bangalore, rushed to the Government Railway Police station in New Tinsukia to lodge a complaint that she was raped by three persons. While two of the accused had disappeared, the police managed to apprehend the third person with the help of the woman’s brother who was waiting to receive her in New Tinsukia station.

The woman, who is unmarried and hails from a village under Philobari police station in Tinsukia district, has been working as a domestic maid in Bangalore, and was traveling home on leave. The 20-year old unmarried woman was employed by the daughter of an officer with GREF, a unit of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), who is posted in Arunachal Pradesh, it was learnt.

Giving details based on the complaint and the statement of the victim, New Tinsukia GRP office in-charge Dipak Tamuli said the girl had shifted to another coach after most of the passengers of the coach in which she was traveling had alighted in New Dibrugarh station. It was in the second coach that three persons raped her in the toilet, the complaint said.

“She said an elderly co-passenger asked her to go to another coach because he was the only male passenger in it. Accordingly, she shifted to another coach where she met three male passengers who soon became friends with her. One of the persons who escorted her to the toilet however took advantage and raped her, after which the other two men also followed suit,” the police officer, quoting the woman’s complaint said.

The person who has been arrested after being apprehended by the police with the help of the victim’s brother, has been identified as one Prahlad Chhetri who works in restaurant in Bangalore. “He was apprehended when he had gone back to the coach to collect a bag that he had left behind after alighting from the train in New Tinsukia, with the girl’s brother acting rather swiftly and handing him over to the police.

The police officer said Chhetri claimed he did not have much details about his other two accomplices because they had met only in the train as co-passengers. “We are still trying to get some information about the other two culprits,” the police officer said.

“The woman has been already put through the required medical tests, while a lady magistrate has recorded her statement,” railway police officer Tamuli said. The weekly 15901 KSR Bangalore – New Tinsukia Express leaves Bangalore City junction at 11:55 PM on Monday and takes 72 hours to reach New Tinsukia at around midnight of Thursday. The distance between New Dibrugarh and New Tinsukia is only 42 kms, but takes 65 minutes to cover that distance.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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May 9,2020

Shillong, May 9: The poisonous mushrooms that killed six people at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district have been identified as Amanita phalloides, commonly known as the 'Death Cap', a senior official said on Saturday.

Six people, including a 14-year-old girl, of Lamin village along the India-Bangladesh border in Amlarem civil sub-division died after consuming wild mushrooms they collected from a nearby forest late last month.

The wild mushroom has been identified as Amanita phalloides and is hepatotoxic as it directly affects the liver, state Director of Health Services (MI) Dr Aman War told PTI.

He said it has been established after an investigation that the cause of the deaths was the poisonous mushrooms.

At least 18 persons from three families were taken ill after consuming the mushrooms.

The symptoms after consuming the poisonous fungus include vomiting, headache and unconsciousness, the senior doctor said.

Most of those taken ill, including a pregnant woman, have already recovered and gone home. Therefore, people can survive as it depends on the amount of poison that you have consumed. Only one person was unaffected, maybe he did not consume much, he said.

Three people are still undergoing treatment and are recovering. Two of them are at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) and one in Woodland Hospital, Dr War said.

He said the health department can only appeal to the people, especially those in the rural areas, to refrain from eating wild mushrooms, while the horticulture department should take measures to create awareness.

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April 9,2020

Gonda, Apr 9: A man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his room as he was missing his wife stuck at her parents' place due to the lockdown, police said.

The incident took place in Radha Kund locality here on Wednesday, they said, adding the deceased has been identified as Rakesh Soni, 32.

As per information, Soni's wife had gone to her parents' place and was stuck there due to the lockdown and he was missing her due to which he committed suicide, Inspector Alok Rao said.

A probe is on in the mater, he said.

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