Karnataka govt announces Rs 4 lakh compensation, to bear medical expenses of acid attack victims
Mangaluru (PTI): Karnataka government on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs four lakh to each of the three female students who suffered burns following an acid attack at the Government Pre-University (PU) college at Kadaba in Dakshina Kannada district as Chairperson of the State Women's Commission (SWC) visited them in hospital.
The families of the students will be given an immediate compensation of Rs four lakh each, and the government will also bear their entire medical expenses, SWC Chairperson Nagalakshmi Chaudhary said after visiting the private hospital here, where they are being treated.
"The students are fine. I am only worried about the (ongoing) PUC exam, which I will sort out with a solution after talking to the education minister," she told reporters after speaking to the three students and their families.
The students expressed their concern over whether they would be able to take the exams being conducted by the PU Board in the current examination cycle itself, and requested that arrangements be made for them in this regard.
"I understand the worries and moods of the children. I also have a son studying in PUC. I will meet the education minister", Chaudhary said.
Doctors treating the three students said they will be fine, but two of them may have to undergo plastic surgery after normal treatment for two weeks.
The three second year PU students suffered burns injuries following the acid attack by a youth at the college in the taluka headquarters town on Monday, police said.
The youth has been identified as Abin Shibi (23), an MBA student hailing from Nilambur taluk in Malappuram district of Kerala, said a police official.
Shibi, who has been arrested, claimed during interrogation that one of the victims had spurned his amorous advances, and he took this "extreme step to show his disappointment in love". He threw acid on the 17-year-old girl who was with her classmates and it fell on two of them also.
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BMW hit-and-run case: HC refuses to release accused Mihir Shah on ground of 'illegal' arrest
Mumbai (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to release Mihir Shah, the main accused in a BMW hit-and-run case, on the ground of "illegal" arrest.
Shah, the 24-year-old son of a former Shiv Sena leader, and his driver Rajrishi Bidawat had filed petitions in the HC claiming they have been illegally detained and sought immediate release.
Shah was arrested on July 9, two days after he allegedly rammed his BMW car into a two-wheeler in Mumbai's Worli area, killing 45-year-old woman Kaveri Nakhwa and leaving her husband Pradeep injured.
His driver Bidawat, who was also present in the car at the time of the accident, was arrested on the day of the incident.
As per their pleas, the police had not informed them the grounds of their arrest at the time, which they claimed was in violation of the law.
A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande on Monday dismissed the petitions.
"Both the petitions are dismissed," the court said.
The duo sought their release, claiming any further detention would be in utter violation of the constitutional mandate and a failure to comply with Section 50 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Under this section, the police, while arresting a person, have to communicate to him/her full particulars of the offence for which he/she is being arrested or other grounds for such arrest.
Both Shah and Bidawat are presently in judicial custody.
In their habeas corpus (produce the person) petitions filed in the HC in August, Shah and Bidawat claimed their detention was illegal and sought that they be released immediately.
Shah, in the plea, sought quashing of the orders passed by a local court remanding him first in police custody and then judicial custody.
He also sought for his arrest to be declared as illegal.
Shah is accused of speeding off towards the Bandra Worli Sea Link after the accident, even as the woman remained on the bonnet of the car and then got entangled in its wheels, for a distance of more than 1.5 kilometres.
As per police, Shah, who fled from the scene, was under the influence of alcohol at the time.
Mihir Shah's father and former Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah had also been arrested in the case, but was later granted bail.
