Five children killed as train rams into school van
LUCKNOW:Five children were on Thursday killed and eight others injured when a school van was hit by a Varanasi-bound passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Mau district. The incident took place at around 8 AM when the van carrying school children was hit by Tamsa passenger train going to Varanasi from Azamgarh at Mahaso unmanned crossing in Ranipur area here. Superintendent of Police AK Shukla said that five children were killed on the spot while eight others were injured in the incident. The victims are yet to be identified. All of them were students of DD Convent School, Hajipur, police said. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will make a suo motu statement in both Houses of Parliament on the accident. “Just now, there has been a railway accident. We want to make a statement in Parliament. The Railway Minister has given a notice and I spoke to both the presiding officers. The government wants to take the Opposition in confidence and inform the House,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters outside Parliament House. (PTI)
Man sentenced to life for murdering teenaged girl
Tuticorin (TN):A court on Thursday sentenced a 50-year-old man to life imprisonment for murdering a teenaged girl after she resisted his attempt to sexually abuse her near a railway station here two years ago.Holding that the prosecution had proved the case beyond doubt, Additional District and Sessions Judge Paldurai also sentenced him to five years rigorous imprisonment for attempting to sexually abuse the 13-year-old girl and also imposed a fine of Rs 1000. The sentences will run concurrently, he said. Subbiah said he was innocent and that the case was foisted on him.According to the prosecution, Subbiah waylaid the girl when she was on way to school and tried to sexually abuse her and as she resisted, he had murdered her.As many as 28 witnesses were examined in the case.(PTI)
College girl gangraped; two arrested
Hyderabad:A welder and a bike mechanic were on Thursday arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 21-year-old student at an isolated place off the Outer Ring Road at Hayathnagar here. Accused Srinivas Reddy, welder, and Linga Reddy, mechanic, took photographs of the girl along with her classmate when they were together at a secluded place and later started blackmailing the girl, saying they will expose her before her parents, a senior police officer said. “The duo had blackmailed the victim that they will show her photographs taken along with her companion (classmate) to her parents and gang-raped her on Monday,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (L B Nagar Zone) C Ravi Varma said. After a complaint by the girl student, a case was registered yesterday and both of them were today arrested.Hayathnagar Police Station Inspector P Venkateshwarlu said they had registered a case of gang-rape under relevant sections of IPC. Probe is on. (PTI)
Girl killed by spurned youth
Kannauj:A spurned youth killed a 18-year-old Dalit girl by setting her on fire in Apuvpur village here, police said here on Thursday. The youth identified as Sarman Singh Kannaujia barged into the house of the victim on Tuesday afternoon when all the family members were out. The girl offered a strong resistance to his advances following which the youth sprinkled kerosene on the victim and set her ablaze, police said today. He then fled the scene as the neighbors rushed in on hearing her cries, police said, adding that she was rushed to a Community Health Centre from where she was taken to a Kanpur hospital where she succumbed yesterday. Superintendent of Police Anil Jain said that three teams have been constituted to nab the culprit. (PTI)
In-laws held guilty in dowry death case
Muzaffarnagar:A couple were convicted while their son was acquitted by a local court in connection with murder of his wife for dowry last year. District judge Vijay Laxmi held the woman’s in-laws guilty on the basis of the victim’s dying declaration and reserved the order till December 5 on the quantum of sentence. The husband of the deceased was acquitted due to lack of evidence. According to prosecution, Shama Perveen, wife of Shehzad, was burnt to death by her in-laws for failing to fulfil their dowry demands at Miranpur town in the district on December 4 last year. Shama later succumbed to her injuries in the hospital. Police had registered a case against her husband Shehzad, father-in-law Zulfikar and mother-in-law Munija Begum and the three were arrested.(PTI)