Dakshina Kannada: 80-year-old missing woman found in jungle after three days in Nelyadi
Nelyadi: An 80-year-old woman who had gone missing from Kaudrady village here on February 28, was found in a nearby reserved forest area on March 3.
The woman, identified as Aisamma, a resident of Donthila near Hosamajalu in Kaudrady village was reported missing from Feb 28 evening after she did not return home from her neighbors’ house.
According to the family, Aisamma used to routinely visit their neigbor’s house but did not return home on Feb 28. Her son Mohammed along with his friends looked for her at various places in the village but failed to trace her.
Aisamma was later found in a nearby reserved forest area having spent two days and three nights in the jungle. The family suspected she must have lost her way while returning home from the neighbor’s house leading her to wander in the jungle.
A missing complaint was also filed with the police on March 1.
On the morning of March 3, Shiju, who supplied milk to the cooperative society in Hosamajalu, caught sight of the 80-year-old in the reserve forest area in Erthila near Mannagundi.
Aisamma’s son Mohammed has said that, while the senior citizen’s health is otherwise unaffected by the incident, her tongue has turned green as she was forced to eat leaves in the jungle when she was hungry. She also drank water from a stream near Erthila, where she was found, he added.
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Student found dead in hostel room in IIT Kharagpur
Kolkata (PTI): A 22-year-old M Tech student was found dead in his hostel room in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, the second such incident reported on the campus within a span of 10 days.
The student, identified as Soham Haldar, was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room on Tuesday and he was immediately taken to the institute hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead, an IIT Kharagpur official said.
Haldar, a dual-degree student in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, was a boarder of the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Hall of Residence on the campus.
Police from the Kharagpur Town police station have initiated a probe into the incident as preliminary findings indicated that it could be a case of suicide, though the exact cause of death will be ascertained following the post-mortem examination, the official said.
In a statement, the institute expressed deep grief over the student's death and said a detailed inquiry has been initiated.
The authorities have informed the family and are extending all possible assistance to them, it added.
Director Suman Chakraborty told PTI that the institute will strengthen the mechanism to identify stressed-out and depressed students and take follow-up steps to address their issues.
The grief-stricken parents of the student, who hailed from Barasat in North 24 Parganas district, have come to the campus and the authorities will speak to them, he said.
"Haldar's friends, faculty and staffers also could not gauge any stress or anxiety in him. But we need to enable students suffering from anxiety and extreme stress to open up their minds and do everything needed to prevent such incidents," he said.
Investigators are also scrutinising CCTV footage from the hostel premises to piece together the sequence of events leading to the incident.
The incident comes close on the heels of another student's death reported on April 18, when 21-year-old Jaibir Singh Dodia, a third-year Mechanical Engineering student from Ahmedabad, allegedly died after jumping from the eighth floor of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence. That case is also under investigation.
The back-to-back incidents have once again brought the issue of mental health and student support systems at the institute into focus, especially in view of several such cases reported last year.
