Stray dog attack leaves Kanpur college student with 17 stitches on her face
Kanpur: In another alarming case of a stray dog attack, a 21-year-old woman from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, was viciously attacked by stray dogs while returning home from college. The brutal assault resulted in severe facial injuries, with doctors needing to stitch her cheek with 17 sutures.
The incident took place on August 20 in Shyam Nagar, where a scuffle between stray dogs and monkeys was reportedly unfolding. Amid the chaos, three stray dogs suddenly attacked Vaishnavi Sahu, a final-year BBA student at Allen House Ruma College, as reported by India Today on Saturday.
The dogs dragged her to the ground and mauled her face and body. Her right cheek was torn apart, splitting into two sections, while her nose and other parts of her body also suffered multiple bite marks. Despite her efforts to escape, the dogs overpowered her once more and knocked her back onto the road.
Hearing her screams, local residents rushed to the scene with sticks and chased the dogs away. By that time, Vaishnavi was bleeding heavily. Her family quickly arrived and transported her to Kanshiram Hospital, where she received urgent care. Doctors were able to stitch her cheek and nose with 17 sutures.
Family members revealed that the young girl is now struggling even to eat or move her mouth. “She cannot eat anything, nor move her mouth. Somehow, we are giving her liquids through a straw,” India Today quoted them as saying.
Expressing their anguish, the family called for immediate government action, urging that the stray dogs be either captured and relocated or placed in shelters. “But they should be removed from the streets so that no one else’s daughter or daughter-in-law suffers like this,” the family added.
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2019 mud attack on engineer: Maharashtra court sentences BJP minister Nitesh Rane to one-month jail
Mumbai (PTI): A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands.
Later, the court suspended Rane's sentence, allowing him time to appeal before a higher court, while acquitting 29 other accused in the case.
"Even though Rane's intention was to raise a voice against the poor quality of work and inconvenience faced by the people, he was not supposed to humiliate or insult a public servant in public," additional sessions court judge V S Deshmukh stated.
"If such incidents continue to occur, public servants would not be able to discharge their duties with dignity," the judge noted.
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Calling the act "abuse of power", the court held that "it is the demand of time to curb such tendency".
Rane, a son of former Union minister Narayan Rane, was among 30 people charged under various offences, including rioting, assault to deter a public servant, and criminal conspiracy. He was in Congress when the incident occurred.
All the accused, including Nitesh Rane, were acquitted of these offences, as the court found insufficient evidence to support most of these claims.
However, the court found Nitesh Rane guilty of an offence under section 504 (intentional insult meant to provoke a breach of public peace) and sentenced him to one month's jail.
Rane, then a Congress MLA, had called the Sub-Divisional Engineer of the National Highway Authority, Prakash Shedekar, to a bridge over the Gad river in Kankavli on July 4, 2019, for inspecting the work to widen the Mumbai-Goa Highway.
According to the prosecution, Nitesh Rane and his followers, frustrated by the poor quality of the roadwork and waterlogging, confronted the engineer. They poured muddy water on Shedekar and forced him to walk through slush in public.
The court, after perusing the evidence on record, noted that the informant (victim) was holding a high post in the National Highway Authority.
"Despite that, he was made to walk through the muddy water in public. It would have certainly humiliated and insulted him," the court remarked.
The judge held that Rane compelling Shedekar to walk through the muddy water "was nothing but an intentional insult to the informant," and provocation which will cause him to break the public peace.
