8-yr-old girl raped and murdered in Palghar; son of ex-sarpanch held
Palghar (PTI): An eight-year-old girl, who had gone to a friend's birthday party, was murdered after allegedly being raped by a man in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Wednesday.
The police have arrested a 21-year-old son of a former sarpanch (village head) in this connection, an official said.
The victim, resident of a village in Mokhada taluka, went to the birthday party of her friend in the village on Sunday but did not return home.
Her family members then carried out a search for her.
The victim's body was found near a graveyard in the village late Sunday night. The police sent the bodyfor postmortem and initiated a probe into the girl's death, Mokhada police station's assistant inspector Premnath Dhole said.
A police probe team worked on various leads, including technical and intelligence inputs, and arrested the man on Tuesday, he said.
The man allegedly stalked the girl on Sunday and then raped and murdered her at night, he said.
The mother of the accused was earlier a local councillor, as per the police.
The accused has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103(1) (murder), 65 (2) (rape of a female under 12 years of age) and 66 (punishment for causing death or resulting in a persistent vegetative state of the victim) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Dhole said.
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Bihar: Over 150 children fall ill after consuming 'mid-day meal' in Saharsa
Saharsa (PTI): More than 150 children were taken ill after allegedly consuming food that was part of the mid-day meal in a school in Bihar’s Saharsa district, a senior official said on Thursday.
The incident occurred at a middle school in Baluaha village of the district.
The official said that 115 children were undergoing treatment at the Sadar Hospital, while around 50 students were admitted to Mahishi Public Health Centre.
“We received information that several children fell ill after consuming the mid-day meal in Baluaha. The children were initially treated at the primary health centre, but later, many were referred to the Sadar Hospital,” Saharsa District Magistrate Deepesh Kumar told reporters.
“According to doctors, the health condition of the children has improved, but they will be kept under observation for some time. There is no need to panic. Some kids are having mild fever. They are being treated accordingly,” Kumar said.
Meanwhile, family members of some children claimed that a snake was found in the container in which cooked pulses was stored at the school.
Of the 545 students present in the school, 200 had already eaten their meals by the time the snake was spotted, and later complained of stomach ache and vomiting, they said.
Regarding the claims, the DM said food samples have been collected from the school.
“We will be able to comment on this only after the results of the tested samples arrive,” he said.
