Chennai cabbie turns thief to fund daughters’ education, held

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.55 AM IST

CHENNAI: Police have arrested a 50-year-old cab driver, who travelled in his car and resorted to chain snatching in the southern suburbs. The arrested was identified as Balaji of Ayanavaram.

Police sources later quoted the accused as saying that he took to chain snatching to fund the education of his two college-going daughters.

Police had launched a hunt for the culprit after two incidents in Alandur where elderly women were targeted. In both incidents, the victims said the culprit had come in a car, which intrigued police since typically bike-borne men snatch chains.

In one incident in Thillai Ganga Nagar near Adambakkam, a 72-year-old woman was relieved of her 1.5-sovereign chain while she was on her morning walk. According to police, the accused had snatched a gold chain from her while driving the car. In another incident, a 62-year-old woman complained that she was relieved off her 5-sovereign chain. The victim, Malathy, was a resident of 22nd Street in Nanganallur. She was plucking flowers outside the compound wall of her house when a car slowed down. The driver called her on the pretext of asking for directions and when she came near the vehicle, he snatched her chain and fled.

Madras HC orders 86-year-old life convict be freed

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 06.53 AM IST

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has made it clear that when the medical board recommends premature release of a life convict, then the same cannot be denied on the basis of objections from the director general of prison (DGP) or the inspector general of prison (IG).

Making the observation, a division bench of Justices MM Sundresh and M Nirmal Kumar ordered the release of 86-year-old Bilal Haijiar, a life convict for murder, currently lodged in the Coimbatore central prison, within four weeks.

"This exercise has been done by the medical board in favour of the life convict. The board has clearly opined that the life convict is suffering from multi system and multi organ diseases which are progressive in nature and some of them are dangerous. Therefore, they have recommended premature release of the convict in due compliance of the Tamil Nadu Prison Rules," the bench said. Bilal was convicted under Section 302 of IPC and his life conviction was confirmed by the high court on October 10, 2018.

On January 3, he made a representation to the authorities seeking premature release on health condition.

As it was not disposed of, he moved the court and obtained an order directing the prison authorities to consider his representation.

Stanley Medical College 1969 batch celebrates golden jubilee

TNN | Sep 15, 2019, 08.56 PM IST

 

CHENNAI: The alumni of 1969 batch of Stanley Medical College on Sunday celebrated their golden jubilee, marking the 50th year of their entry into the institution, which was founded by George Frederick Stanley in 1938. 

The 1969 batch was the first to do MBBS on the present campus while classes for the previous classes had been held in nearby arts colleges.

The celebrations began in the auditorium of the institution on Sunday morning. Former faculty members presided over the function.

Where is Jayagopal? Police have no answer

TNN | Sep 16, 2019, 04.18 AM ISTCHENNAI:

Where is S Jayagopal, the man who put up the poster that killed Subashree? Do the city police really not know?

“Though his mobile number remains switched off, we are not tracking his mobile phone as the section [IPC 336 - act endangering life and personal safety of others] under which the case is filed is bailable. Even if he is arrested, he will be let out on bail immediately,” said a police officer.

Police sources said they were working to strengthen the case against the ex-councillor. “To make it stronger, they can get legal opinion from the public prosecutor and invoke stringent sections or alter the sections,” said advocate V S Suresh.

“We are waiting for the legal opinion. We will decide what other sections would be included at the time of filing the charge sheet,” said assistant commissioner, South traffic investigation, Kumaravel.

But that still does not explain why the police have not so far arrested the man or why legal opinion has not been tendered three days after the incident.

Jayagopal had illegally put up scores of posters on an arterial road at Pallikaranai. One of the posters came loose and fell on Subashree. She was knocked off her bike and came under the wheels of a water tanker.

Despite the public outrage that illegal hoardings had claimed another life in the state, there was no attempt to arrest Jayagopal on Friday. On Saturday, people in Pallikaranai and the media knew that he had been admitted to a hospital. But the police said he wasn’t there when they went to pick him up. The owner of the press that printed the hoarding hasn’t been picked up either.

Tamil Nadu: Bitten by snake in hostel room, girl dies


TNN | Sep 16, 2019, 06.49 AM IST  MADURAI: 

A 14-year-old schoolgirl died on the way to hospital after she was bitten by a snake inside her hostel room. The incident took place on the premises of a government-aided school near Begambur in Dindigul town on the wee hours of Sunday.

The victim was identified as R Varsha, daughter of Raman, a farmer from Periyur village in Kodaikanal block. She was studying in class IX staying on the same school. She fell ill and alerted her friends on the early hours of Sunday.

As froth began appearing in her mouth, warden and the school authorities rushed the girl to government hospital. But the doctors, who checked her, declared that she was brought dead.

The girl had told her friends that she was bitten by something at around 1 pm, but she ignored. After sometime, she became restless as the poison started spreading. During a search later conducted by school authorities, a cobra snake was found inside the box in which the hostel television was set. The snake was beaten to death.

Bees delay Kolkata-Agartala Air India flight

16/09/2019 , Press Trust of india, kolkata

A Kolkata-Agartala Air India flight was delayed for around two hours on Sunday after a swarm of bees was noticed in front of the aircraft while it was taxiing towards the main runway here, an airline official said. The plane with 136 passengers and crew members on board the AI 743 flight was scheduled to depart at 9.40 a.m.

The bees were noticed by the pilots when the Airbus A319 was ready for the take-off. The pilots brought the aircraft to a standstill as further movement could have damaged the plane and harmed the passengers if the bees entered it through the engines, the AI spokesperson said.

Fire services personnel were called to tackle the problem. Before this incident, the flight had been delayed for some time due to a technical snag. The plane finally embarked for the Tripura capital at 12.45 p.m.

BHU students protest over reinstatement of professor
‘He began taking classes a few days ago’ 

16/09/2019 , Press Trust of India, Varanasi 


 
Students during the protest in Varanasi on Sunday.ANIANI

Banaras Hindu University students staged an overnight protest outside the campus gate after a professor, accused of sexual harassment, was reinstated and allowed to take classes. The students have been protesting since Saturday evening, demanding that the professor be punished.

Professor S.K. Chaubey of the Zoology Department was suspended in 2018 after charges levelled by a few students. In June, the BHU executive council revoked the suspension of Mr. Chaubey. However, it censured and restricted him for taking academic classes.

Mr. Chaubey returned to taking classes a few days ago, triggering protests, a student said.