Teen hangs self in HP's Bilapsur after being stopped from watching TV
Bilaspur (PTI): A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself in Panoh village of Bilaspur district after his mother reportedly stopped him from watching television and asked him to study, police said on Saturday.
According to police, the incident took place on Thursday when the boy, a Class X student, was at home and insisted on watching television.
However, his mother refused and asked him to do schoolwork, according to the statements of the family members recorded by the police.
The boy subsequently left the house. When he did not return for a long time, the family members began searching for him.
Eventually, his body was found hanging from a noose in an old, abandoned house not far from the home.
Following the incident, the police were contacted. They took the body to Ghumarvi hospital, and a postmortem was conducted on Friday.
Ghumarvi DSP Chandrapal Singh said that further investigation is underway in the case.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
