Complaint against 2 women for ‘disrespecting’ national anthem
Mumbai: A complaint has been filed against two women for not standing up while the national anthem was being played at a movie hall here and thus showing ‘disrespect’ to the country. Social worker Sheetal Mhatre on Sunday filed a complaint at the Amboli police station, while taking a dim view of the women not standing up at a movie hall at Infinity Mall in suburban Andheri when the national anthem was played, a police official said. Mhatre, who had gone to the mall along with her friend Jyoti Bhatt yesterday, apparently approached the two women, whose identity has been withheld, saying they should have stood up while the anthem was being played, they said. The two women then allegedly hurled abuses at the complainant and also threatened to beat her, police said. The Amboli police have recorded statements of the two accused women, they added. In Maharashtra, it is mandatory for all cinemas to play the national anthem before every film. (PTI)
Man consumes pesticide mistaking it for liquor; dies
Burhanpur (MP): A 36-year-old man, who had started drinking heavily after his wife moved out of the house, died when he allegedly consumed pesticide in an inebriated condition mistaking it for liquor. The incident took place at Fofnarkhurd village near here on Sunday night. Relatives of Dilip Jaikar, who consumed pesticide kept in a bottle in his home, rushed him to district hospital where doctors pronounced him brought dead, Shahpur Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Devishanker Singh Bisen said. Jaikar was in an intoxicated state when he gulped the pesticide thinking it was liquor, he said. Jaikar’s wife left him a month ago and started living with her parents at Jalgaon in neighbouring Maharashtra following a marital discord. Since then, Jaikar had been living in dejection and drinking heavily, he added. The body was handed over to his family members after post-mortem, Bisen said, adding a probe was on. (PTI)
31 ill in Cooch Behar Hospital, medical board formed Cooch
Behar (WB): Thirty-one patients at MJN Hospital’s Maternity Ward in Cooch Behar district on Monday fell ill allegedly after being administered injections. Confirming that 31 female patients have shown symptoms like that of convulsions, headache and fever, Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH), Cooch Behar, Sumit Ganguli said a medical board has been formed to look in to the matter. The board will examine the cause behind the incident, he said adding the patients were administered their regular dose of injection this morning. However, the patients’ relatives have alleged the injections administered were not checked by nurses on duty. (PTI)
