Puttur girl secures All India Second Rank in NEET exams under Persons With Disabilities category
Puttur: Sinchana Lakshmi, a second-year student at Vivekananda PU College in Puttur, has secured All India Rank 2 at the national level in NEET 2021 in the Persons With Disabilities (PWD) category, results of which were announced on Monday.
Lakshmi scored 658 out of 720 marks in the qualifying examination. In the general category, she secured the 2,865th position among all the 16 lakh-odd medical seat aspirants who appeared for the exam.
Earlier during her SSLC examination, Lakshmi had secured the second rank in the state by scoring 624 marks out of 625.
Her performance in JEE and KCET was also remarkable: 96.16 percentile in JEE; 530th rank in B.Sc. Agriculture, 974th rank in BNYS, 974th rank in veterinary and 1,582nd Rank in KCET engineering.
Her ambition is to become a doctor and serve the needy. She hopes for a seat in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
Lakshmi has a birth defect in the spine and has undergone several surgeries during her schooling days.
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
