REGION DIGEST

9.9.19

Cancer survivor poisons kids to death, ends life

A 27-year-old woman with cancer poisoned her two children, aged 2 and 4, to death before committing suicide in a village near Mayiladuthurai town in Nagapattinam district. The incident came to light on Monday after relatives broke open the house and found the bodies of the woman and her two children. Police said Nilofer Parveen had been dejected since her cancer diagnosis. Her husband is working in Dubai. She might have decided to end their lives fearing there would be none to look after her children, police said.

Jipmer issues notice to student over fake nativity certificate: 

Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) in Puducherry has issued showcause notices to a student and her father questioning them why her admission cannot be cancelled for furnishing a fake certificate. The action by the institute came after the revenue department found that K Krithika, daughter of K Kumar, had obtained a Puducherry nativity certificate by furnishing false information. The department has initiated proceedings to cancel the certificate issued to her.

Lankan who reached TN illegally arrested: 

The Qbranch police from Ramanathapuram district arrested a Sri Lankan national who arrived on an illegal ferry at Arichalmunai near Dhanushkodi on Monday for questioning. He was identified as M Arunraj, 24, from Chettikulam in Vavuniya in the Island nation. Arunraj reached Arichalmunai on a fiber boat with the help of agents. Local fishermen who spotted Arunraj moving around suspiciously alerted Q-branch police.

Man attacked with log by son dies: 

A week after he was attacked by his son, a 65-yearold resident of Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, passed away at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) on Monday. Police said Krishnan’s son K Kumaravel, 31, had attacked him with a wooden log after he refused to give him money to buy liquor on September 3. Krishnan suffered severe head injuries and was in CMCH’s intensive care unit,” a police officer said. Police arrested Kumaravel and remanded in judicial custody.

‘Fishermen on capsized boat could have been saved’: 

If the fishermen from Rameswaram had carried along basic communication sets when they went to Cuddalore to purchase the new boat that capsized on September 3, many of the ten could have been saved, says the Indian Coast Guard. Four fishermen had died as the boat capsized on returning to Rameswaram in Palk Bay. On receipt of information about the capsize, Indian Coast Guard had immediately initiated search and rescue operation. Six survivors were rescued after 32 hours of extensive sea-air coordinated search while four bodies were recovered. Had they carried communication equipment with them, all of them could have been saved, the ICG said.