Alleged Stripping of Tanzanian Woman Had an Element of Racism: Tanzania’s High Commissioner to India
Expressing outrage at the incident where a 21-year-old Tanzanian student was allegedly stripped in Bengaluru, Tanzania’s High Commissioner to India, John Kijazi said on Thursday that the incident had an “element of racism”. He also said that the woman was attacked because “she was black”, reports The Indian Express.
The Tanzanian envoy will be visiting Bengaluru on Friday, along with a team of officials from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), to reach out to African students in Bengaluru and “assuage their concerns”.
Kijazi also sought a “thorough and fair investigation” into the incident.
We want to ensure the security and safety of all African students. If they are scared, they cannot study. Right now, they are not 100 percent comfortable.John Kijazi, Tanzania’s High Commissioner to India told The Indian Express
Meanwhile, the Centre has sought a “detailed report” from the Karnataka government on the alleged stripping.
The Congress government in the state, however, sought to play down the incident with Home Minister G Parameshwara denying that the student was not stripped and paraded naked as alleged.
Ryan International Case: Principal and 4 Others Held; Released on Bail
Police arrested the principal and four other staff of Ryan International School in Vasant Kunj on Thursday, in connection to an incident where a six-year-old boy was found drowned in a water tank on the campus.
But they were released on bail the same day. A case of death caused due to negligence was filed against Sandhya Sabu, the principal and the rest. The chargesheet will be prepared within 15 days.
The initial probe into the case revealed lapses and gross negligence from the side of the school authorities.
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Hyderabad HC Stays Arrest of BJP MLC in Rohith Vemula’s Suicide Case
The Hyderabad High Court stayed the arrest of BJP MLC N Ramachander Rao in connection to Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide case on Monday. The police was permitted to continue investigation.
According to The Hindu, the judge was passing these interim orders in a writ petition filed by the MLC. Justice PV Sanjay Kumar said that he came to know that Susheel Kumar was attacked by a group of students after he protested the glorification of Yakub Memon, the terrorist who was hanged after a Supreme Court judgment.
Kumar visited the campus to meet the university officials as a public representative. He urged the university to restore order. He lamented that Susheel Kumar has been named as accused without any basis.
Mumbai Road Rage: Man Hit by Car Abducts the Female Driver at Gunpoint
A 40-year-old woman was allegedly abducted in Mumbai by an armed pedestrian after he was hit by her car outside a busy mall, on Wednesday.
The police was told about the entire sequence of events, that took place in Virar in Mumbai, by the woman’s friend who was with her in the car when the incident took place. However, till Thursday night, the police had not been able to trace the woman.
According to her, the two women were returning home when their car hit a man near Gokul City in Virar. As they stopped the car, the pedestrian started banging on the windscreen asking them to unlock the door. Scared, the women unlocked the door, immediately after which the man barged inside and held the victim at gunpoint, asking her to drive as per his instructions.
Special teams have been formed to work on different leads. They checked images from CCTV footage but that did not yield anything.
Read the full report in The Indian Express.
UP Bandit with Over 200 Cases of Murder and Kidnapping Gets a Temple in His Honour
Over 200 cases of murder and kidnapping, around Rs 200 crore spent on pursuit and a bounty of Rs 50 lakh on his head.
Nine years after Shiv Kumar Patel alias Dadua, a Bundelkhand bandit whose name reigned terror, was gunned down, he will occupy pride of place with gods, reports The Telegraph.
A statue of the bandit will be installed at a temple near his village in Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh on February 13.
He had attended a ceremony to install the idols of Hanuman, Shiva, and Ram-Sita in 2006, a year before he was killed in a gun battle with the police in July 2007. Mayawati was the chief minister at the time.
Dadua’s statue is going to be installed in a larger shrine built by his family, many of whom have ventured into politics, are leaders of the ruling Samajwadi Party and have been calling the shots in their Kabraha village with virtually no resistance.
The new temple was inaugurated on Thursday, kicking off a 10-day ritual for the statues of Dadua, his wife Siya Devi, father Ram Pyare Singh and mother Krishna Devi to be unveiled next weekend. The idols are currently being sculpted in Jaipur.
Threat Call Creates Panic in British School, Similar Calls Received in Geneva, Dubai, Tokyo and the Hague
The British School in the high-security Chanakyapuri area was put under security lock-down for an hour on Thursday afternoon after an unknown caller threatened to kill everybody in the institution.
According to The Hindustan Times, similar threatening calls were earlier received at the British Schools in Geneva, Dubai, Tokyo and the Hague.
The school receptionist said the caller spoke in fluent English and asked for the principal. He called the receptionist a ‘b****’ when she asked him to leave a message.
He claimed to have an AK-47 and deadly bombs which would kill everyone in the school.
Police said they sought expert help to identify the caller.
Eleven Men Sentenced to Death in Connection to a Land Grab Case in West Bengal
A Nadia court on Thursday sentenced 11 men to death who acted like “terrorists” by killing a woman during an attempt to grab land.
According to The Telegraph, 55 families had been cultivating the plot of land for two decades which had been unofficially distributed among the displaced during the Bangladesh Liberation War by the then ruling Left.
On November 23, 2014, around 30 men led by a local who claimed to be a Trinamool activist had first tried to destroy the crop with tractors on the 8.28 acres that the families cultivated.
Faced with resistance from those working in the field, mostly women, they fired 40 rounds indiscriminately, killing 45-year-old Aparna Bag and injuring three, including a 14-year-old boy.
Juvenile Accused of Strangling Elderly Woman Five Months After He Killed A Child
A 17-year-old boy, who was released from a juvenile home for “good behaviour” just two months after he had kidnapped and killed a child last September, has now been accused of murdering an elderly woman, The Times of India reported.
Mithilesh Jain was found dead in her home in south Delhi’s BK Dutt Colony on Monday.
Police said the juvenile strangled 65-year-old Mithilesh Jain, a retired Military Engineering Services officer, before robbing the house.
At first sight, Jain appeared to have died of natural causes. However, police started investigating when the autopsy said the woman had died of strangulation.
The case was cracked after the police traced a call the teenager made on Wednesday from one of the mobile phones he had taken from the house. He was picked up from Faridabad.
Minor Girl Sexually Assaulted by Minor Boy in Tamil Nadu
An 8-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a 17-year-old-boy in the Mathur region of Tamil Nadu.
The incident that occurred on January 30 came to light on Wednesday.
According to the police, the accused lived in the neighbourhood and had lured the girl to his house after the girl’s parents had left for work. The girl told her parents of the crime a day later.
The Hindu reported that the girl’s father assaulted the accused, following which the accused was admitted to Uthangarai Government hospital. It was only then that the crime of sexual assault came to light. Police booked the boy under POCSO ACT.
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