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  • Man kills infant son, wife, drags her body for several metres on street in Rajasthan

    By PTI
    KOTA: A man hacked his wife to death and dragged her body for several metres on the street here, police said on Wednesday, adding that their infant son, who was injured in the attack, died at a hospital later.

    The accused, Sunil Valmiki (40) alias Pintu, went absconding after the incident that took place on Tuesday night in Bhatapura area of Rampura, they said.

    On Tuesday afternoon, he picked his wife, Seema (35), and their nine-month-old son, Avinash, from her brother’s house.

    Their elder son, aged nine years, stayed back with his uncle and grandmother.

    After an argument in the evening, the accused attacked Seema with an axe, Deputy Superintendent of Police and Circle Officer Ram Kalyan said, adding the woman died on the spot.

    The accused then dragged her body for 70 to 80 metres on the street, triggering panic among the people, the DSP said.

    Leaving the body on the street, he moved towards Rampura police station apparently to confess to the crime but ran away, Station House Officer Hansraj Meena said.

    Avinash was injured in the incident and died during treatment at a hospital on Wednesday morning, police said.

    However, it was not clear how the infant suffered injuries, they added.

    The bodies of the woman and the child were sent for postmortem.

    The man, a daily wager, was booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and efforts were on to nab him, police said.

    Seema and Sunil got married around 15 years ago and had two sons.

  • These Kota sisters live in a void, face harsh future

    Express News Service
    JAIPUR:  The suddenness of losing one’s parents in a matter of days is a tragedy multiplied a hundred times over. Ask Poorvi (26) and Riya (24), who saw their Covid-stricken parents lurch into lifelessness. One final clasp of Riya’s hand by her mother as tight as it could have been and it was all over on April 29. She stood still for many, many moments. Then, she moved, all alone, to cremate her because Poorvi, her elder sister, was with their father, fighting a losing battle.

    Till about a month back, the Kota family had everything a middle-class family aspires. Shyam and Mahima Maheshwari ran a hostel for students, Poorvi, an IT engineer, had a job in Noida and Riya had finished her Mass Comm. Things changed on April 24 when Riya called up to say that their mother had been hospitalised. Poorvi says their mother caught the infection from their father who was suffering from high fever after he got vaccinated.

    For about a week, the couple was under treatment of a doctor, a relative, at their home. But their conditions worsened and they were admitted to the new Medical College Hospital, Kota. While their father Shyam tested positive, their mother’s report was negative initially though her chest CT Scan revealed that she had pneumonia. Poorvi says a week before he was admitted to the hospital, he had got vaccinated.Before that he had no illness nor did he suffer from any symptoms. “We don’t know if it was the vaccine that got him into trouble or whether he already had the infection when he got himself vaccinated,” says Poorvi.

    It was their mother’s condition that turned grave in the ICU. She collapsed on April 29. But the sisters had to hide it from their father who was battling Covid in a different ward. “I was in the ICU with my mom while Didi was taking care of our father. My mother held my hand tightly just before she passed away. I did her cremation alone as we did not want Papa to be left alone,” recalls Riya. Soon, their father’s condition began to deteriorate. Though the sisters tried desperately, they simply could not get an ICU bed for him. Poorvi believes had their father got an ICU bed, he might have recovered.

    On May 9, he died. The sisters jointly arranged their father’s cremation. “We just don’t know how to cope with this situation. We have lost words to explain our feelings,” says a sobbing Poorvi. Riya, a Mass Comm graduate, had already lost her job in the wake of the Corona-induced slowdown, while Poorvi works in Noida. They don’t have enough money to pay the rent of their house as the earnings of their parents had declined sharply during the pandemic.

  • Rape accused marries complainant at police station in Rajasthan’s Kota

    By PTI
    KOTA: A rape accused tied the wedding knot with the complainant at a police station in Rajasthan’s Kota district on Monday, police said.

    They decided to marry after a compromise was reached between them with the help of police intervention.

    The girl’s brother, the man’s father and the police were present at the temple in Ramganj Mandi police station premises where the couple exchanged wedding vows and garlands, Superintendent of Police, Kota (Rural), Sharad Choudhary said.

    Earlier this month, the survivor had lodged a case of rape under IPC Section 376 against Motilal who is her neighbour, police said.

    They were reportedly having an affair and after Motilal refused to marry the girl, she filed a complaint against him.

    Investigation into the matter was underway, Choudhary said, adding that the wedding was performed as per COVID-19 guidelines.

    The matter is sub judice in court, Station House Officer at Ramganj Mandi police station, Harish Bharti said.

    Meanwhile, Sub-Divisional Magistrate at Ramganj Mandi, Balkishan Tiwari denied permission to the couple to organise a wedding ceremony in view of the COVID-19 crisis in the country.

  • Rajasthan: Irked over repeated beating, 16-year-old boy kills alcoholic father with axe

    By PTI
    KOTA: A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his alcoholic father with an axe while he was asleep early on Friday in Rajasthan’s Kota district, police said.

    Around 3.30 am, the boy took an axe from the house and attacked his father multiple times, resulting in his death on the spot while other members of the family were asleep in another room, Station House Officer at Itawa Police Station, Bajrang Lal said.

    Initial inquiry revealed that the deceased, Abid Ali (45), was a history-sheeter with 27 criminal cases against him, including murder and loot.

    He was convicted in some of the cases and was a liquor addict.

    It was also revealed that Ali used to beat and harass his wife, two sons and daughter in inebriated condition.

    Prima facie, the minor boy, a Class 10 student, murdered his father in order to get rid of the constant torture and beating to the family members, the SHO said.

    The body was handed over to the family members after a post-mortem and on the complaint filed by Ali’s brother, the police lodged a case of murder under IPC Section 302 against the boy, who is yet to be detained, he said.

  • 65-year-old woman beaten to death by son in Rajasthan’s Kota

    By PTI
    KOTA: A 65-year-old woman died here on Friday, two days after her alcoholic son allegedly thrashed and beat her with a brick, police said.

    The victim, identified as Rajkumari Bairwa, went into a coma after the incident that took place on Wednesday night in Udhyog Nagar.

    She succumbed during the treatment at Maharao Bhimsingh Hospital.

    The accused, Shashikant, 35, according to police, is unemployed and would “frequently” hit his mother over monetary issues.

    “On Wednesday as well, the argument over money turned violent,” Sub Inspector (SI) Mohammed Ibrahim said, adding that he thrashed her after she refused to give him money.

    The victim had been living with the accused, her younger son, since the death of her husband Babulal, who worked for the state’s irrigation department.

    Her elder son is employed with the revenue department and is currently posted in Ajmer, the SI said.

    A case was lodged on the complaint of the victim’s brother under Section 302 (Murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he said, adding that efforts were on to nab the accused.

    The victim’s body was handed over to the family members after post-mortem.

  • Water shortage in the capital! There will be no water supply in many areas of the city today,

    There will be no water supply in almost the entire city of Raipur today. It was told that there will be no water supply this evening due to repair work of intake well. 23 out of 30 tanks will not get water today. At the same time, the corporation has claimed that water supply will be normal by Sunday evening.
    There will be no supply of water in these areas
    Bhatagaon, Changorabhata, Kushalpur, DD Nagar, Idgah Bhata, Sarona, Tatibandh, Kota, Kabir Nagar, Jarvay, Gogaon, Mathpurena, Lalpur, Amlidih, Avanti Vihar, Mova, Mandi, Saddu Swamp Seoni, Ramnagar, Kachana, Amasivani, Devpuri There will be no water in the areas connected with the head tank tomorrow evening.

  • Kota coaching centres reopen, but Covid worries persist

    By Express News Service
    JAIPUR: Kota, the hub of engineering and medical entrance coaching institutes, is regaining momentum after a gap of 10 months after it was shut due to the Corona crisis. 

    Big hoardings with pictures of IIT entrance toppers from various educational institutes at various places of the city could be seen to lure aspirants and their parents. 

    Nearly 32,000 students have already reached Kota after the Gehlot government allowed schools, colleges and coaching centres to reopen from January 18 taking into account the declining number of Covid-19 cases in the state. 

    A large number of students are arriving every day in Kota to study at the top 10 coaching institutes that dot the city’s landscape. Kota has about 50 other institutes and the city has around 25,000 paying guest (PG) facilities and 3,000 hostels and around 3,000 messes to cater to all needs of the nearly two lakh students from across the country. To ensure the safety of all students, the coaching city has turned into a caring city. Ultra-violet hand sanitisers, Aarogya Setu-like apps to monitor student’s health, social distancing norms with isolated seating arrangements and plush studio apartments are some of the measures the coaching institutes have set up.

    However, the number of Corona cases in Kota remains a big worry. Kota has the second-highest number of active Covid cases in Rajasthan, and on Monday it reported 41 fresh cases — the highest in the state. Among the 41 new cases are 14 coaching students. Of the 33 new cases found in Kota on Tuesday, 18 were coaching students, and on Wednesday, Kota reported 34 cases. 

    The CMHO of Kota, Dr B S Tanwar said according to the doctor, 18 students were asymptomatic and found positive when 2,500 samples were taken from coaching institutes.  

    The Kota district administration has instructed all coaching institutes and hostel authorities to strictly follow the standard operating protocols that have been issued to them. The protocols were decided after consulting heads of institutes and hostels who raised the issue of incurring losses and urged the state authorities to allow them to open up coaching centres. 

    The detailed SOPs have been pasted on the walls of all coaching centres, who in turn, have informed the students about the guidelines they need to follow such as ‘no mask, no entry’ rule. All coaching centres, hostels and messes have also been told to abide by the Covid-19 protocols set by the central and state governments.

  • Man sentenced to life imprisonment for raping three minor girls

    By PTI
    KOTA: A 27-year-old man was sentenced to life in jail till death for raping three five-to-nine-year-old girls in his village under Simliya police station area of Kota district over three years ago.

    A special court set up under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act sentenced Mithun alias Gajendra Rao after convicting him of the offence of rape and various other offences under the POCSO Act and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Public Prosecutor Suresh Verma said on Tuesday.

    Special Judge Hanuman Prasad convicted Rao on Monday while observing that “no unnecessary compassion should be displayed” while sentencing such criminals who “affect the entire judicial system and also obliterate public sentiments”.

    The public prosecutor said the judge also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convict.

    The case against Rao was lodged in July 2017 on the complaint of the mother of a nine-year-old girl, accusing him of raping her daughter.

    During the investigation of the case, it transpired that Rao had also raped two other girls of the village, aged five and seven years respectively.

    The police subsequently filed the charge-sheet in the case indicting Rao of all three rapes.