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12-year-old dies at school; autopsy cites heart attack

28.09.2026

Lucknow: A 12-year-old Class 7 student died after collapsing at her school in Kushinagar’s Ramkola area, with a post-mortem report attributing the death to a heart attack, officials said on Sunday.

The girl, according to her family and local accounts, reached school on Wednesday morning and collapsed around 10 am while sitting on a bench. Classmates raised an alarm and informed her family. Relatives rushed her to a hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.

The death triggered allegations from the family that school staff failed to respond quickly and delayed arranging medical help. Family members and villagers staged a protest with the body for nearly three hours, demanding action against those responsible and alleging negligence by the school administration.

Neha was initially buried without a post-mortem examination. Two days later, her grandfather, Jawahir Bharti, approached Kushinagar district magistrate Sanjay Chauhan seeking an examination, citing doubts and concerns about the circumstances of the child’s death.

Following the request, authorities ordered the exhumation of the body. On Friday evening, the body was exhumed in the presence of Khadda sub-divisional magistrate (Judicial/Magistrate) and circle officer Ajay Kumar Srivastava, and sent for a post-mortem. The post-mortem report, released on Sunday, said the cause of death was a heart attack.

Police said viscera samples have been preserved for further examination. The finding stunned the family and residents, who said they did not expect a cardiac-related death in a 12-year-old. Neha’s father, Rajaram alias Bablu, who works at a namkeen factory in Mumbai, alleged that timely treatment could have saved her. “If she had received proper treatment on time, she would have been alive today,” he said. After the incident, basic education officer Anil Kumar suspended teacher Yogendra Srivastava. Times News Network kushinagar

Soft by name, steely by nature: IAF doc posted in Knp secures NEET PG AIR 2

Arvind.Chauhan@timesofindia.com 28.09.2026

Lucknow: When the NEET PG 2026 results were declared on Sept 24, Sqn Ldr Pallakshi Prasad (28), a medical officer posted at Air Force Station Kanpur, drew widespread praise after securing All India Rank 2.

Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) Air Marshal Sandeep Thareja congratulated the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) alumna from the C3 batch, calling the result a proud moment for the Armed Forces Medical Services.

For Pallakshi, whose name means “soft,” the achievement follows years of regimented preparation alongside demanding military postings. “I always knew I wanted to become a doctor,” she said, crediting her parents’support despite both being engineers. Born in Ranchi and raised in Hyderabad, she studied at Delhi Public School before clearing NEET UG 2016 with an All India Rank of 1,312 without taking a drop year. With limited options due to home-state admission rules, she applied to AFMC at her mother’s urging. Her mother, Shyamlee Prasad, is a practice head at Infosys.

Pallakshi entered AFMC after securing girls’ merit rank 3 and later graduated sixth in overall merit in her batch. “I fell in love with the AFMC campus and everything it stood for. By the time I graduated, I didn’t feel like an outsider to the uniform anymore. Taking permanent commission was a natural decision,” she said. Commissioned into the Indian Navy on May 15, 2021, she served for nearly two and a half years as a medical officer on a warship before moving to the Indian Air Force in 2025.