Goa CM Manohar Parrlkar undergoing series of tests: AIIMS
New Delhi: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is undergoing a series of tests at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), hospital sources said Sunday. Parrikar, who has been undergoing treatment for pancreatic ailment, is admitted in the old private ward under the supervision of Pramod Garg from the Department of Gastroenterology. Parrikar, 62, was flown to the national capital owing to his declining health. He had returned from the US in the first week of September, days after which he was admitted to a hospital at Candolim in north Goa. Earlier this year, he had undergone a three-month-long treatment in the US. (PTI)
American woman found loitering sent back home
Kancheepuram (TN): An American woman who was found loitering in semi-tattered clothes claiming she had been abandoned by her Indian husband has been sent back home with the assistance of the US Consulate in Chennai, police said on Sunday. “After she was taken to a government shelter, the US consulate was alerted which arranged the woman’s travel back home,” a senior official said. She was later taken to the Chennai airport and sent to the US by flight, the official said without giving any detail. The woman, who appeared to be disoriented, was found loitering at Vellagate days ago. The American was seen conversing with some auto drivers before she was spotted by a police patrol team. She reportedly told them that her spouse was an Indian national and they resided at Velachery in Chennai. When contacted by PTI, the woman’s husband declined to answer any queries. (PTI)
Cop shoots self with service revolver in Gujarat
Vadodara: A sub inspector on Sunday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver at a police post, a senior official said. Sanjay Jadeja (37) had been shifted to the Crime Branch’s anti-chain snatching squad just two days earlier, Vadodara police commissioner Anupam Singh Gehlot said. Gehlot said that a diary had been recovered from the spot where Jadeja shot himself in which the deceased had purportedly written that he was unable to do the work of a sub inspector. Gehlot, however, added that it was unlikely that Jadeja killed himself because of work pressure. Praising the deceased as a very good officer, Gehlot said that Jadeja’s death had saddened the entire force. “He was the leader of the anti-chain snatching squad and was doing very good work. We are investigating what caused him to take this step,” Gehlot said. (PTI)
Three held for data breach of food and civil supplies department
Lucknow: Three people were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police on Sunday for allegedly breaching data of the food and civil supplies department to distribute ration to unauthorised Aadhaar accounts. Mohd Aamir, Mohd Altamash and Pushependra Pal were arrested and a computer and two EPOS (electronic point of sale) were seized from their possession, an STF spokesman said here. An FIR in this connection has been lodged at the cyber crime police station of the STF, he said. (PTI)
UP college tonsures heads of students; parents seek action
Muzaffarnagar (UP): Angry parents and their wards took to streets at Shahpur town after a college here ordered tonsuring the heads of its students, officials said on Sunday. Sub Divisional Magistrate Bhupender Kumar said Rashtriya Inter College, Shahpur authorities tonsured the heads of hundreds of its students recently. Agitated by the incident, many students and their parents blocked the Budhana-Muzaffarnagar road on Saturday, demanding action against the educational institute, he said. Meanwhile, disciplinary action has been initiated against college principal Virender Singh and manager Rahul Baiyan, college authorities said. Security has been tightened in the college premises. (PTI)
Man kills father by electrocution following quarrel in Jammu
Jammu: A man allegedly killed his 60-year-old father by electrocution following a quarrel in Jammu earlier this month and dumped his body in a vehicle abandoned in a forest, according to the police. The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday said that the accused, Sanjay Kumar, was on the run and efforts were on to nab him. The body of Angrez Singh, a resident of Barn Gharota village, was recovered from the rear seat of the vehicle, abandoned in Kheari forest on September 1. The police said its investigation revealed that Singh was killed by his son over a family dispute. A case of murder has been registered against Sanjay Kumar at Gharota police station. (PTI)
Five die of suffocation in septic tank in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Five persons, including a woman, died of suspected asphyxiation in a septic tank at a house in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district, police said on Sunday. Two sanitation workers climbed down into the septic tank in Pandripani village to remove wooden planks, but they did not come out, a local police official said. Subsequently, two more persons went inside but they too did not come out following which the house owner’s wife climbed down into the newly-built septic tank, he said. When none of them came out, a child from the neighbourhood alerted the villagers who rushed to the spot, he said. The five were later pulled out of the septic tank and taken to a local hospital where they were declared dead, the official said. Prime facie, it is suspected that they died of suffocation, he said. However, the exact cause of their deaths will be known in the autopsy report, he added. A case was registered in connection with the incident, he said. (PTI)
Two drown in river
Jaipur: Two persons drowned while taking bath in the Parvati River in Rajasthan’s Dholpur district on Sunday, police said. The two were part of a group of 50 pilgrims, who came on foot from Karauli district to Dholpur’s Biloni village, to offer prayers in a temple. “They slipped in deep waters while taking a bath and drowned,” Anoop Singh, SHO of Sarmathura Police Station, said. The bodies of Lokesh Jatav (20) and Avinash Jatav (18) have been handed over to family members, he said. (PTI)