Gujarat: 3-year-old girl falls into borewell, rescue ops underway
Devbhumi Dwarka, Jan 1: A 3-year-old girl fell 30 feet into a borewell in Devbhumi Dwarka in Gujarat on Monday and teams comprising Army personnel and local authorities were engaged in a rescue operation, an official said.
The girl fell into the borewell in Ran village at 1pm while playing, Deputy Collector HB Bhagora said.
The rescue teams comprising Army as well as local police and fire brigade personnel have managed to pull her up by 10 feet, Bhagora informed.
An ambulance was stationed at the site and help was sought from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), he said.
An NDRF statement said a team from the premier agency had left for the site from Gandhinagar at 2:55pm.
#WATCH | Gujarat: Rescue operation underway to rescue a 2.5-year-old girl who fell into a borewell in Ran village of Kalyanpur tehsil of Dwarka district.
— ANI (@ANI) January 1, 2024
Indian Army personnel are also present at the spot and are assisting in the rescue operation. NDRF team has also been called… pic.twitter.com/s0INRX95Te
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Dalit outfits call state-wide hartal over dental student’s death
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Various Dalit organisations on Monday announced a state-wide hartal seeking justice in the death of Kannur Dental College student Nithin Raj.
The hartal will be observed on Tuesday from 6 am to 6 pm.
As many as 52 Dalit organisations, including Justice for Nithin Raj Action Council, have announced the strike.
Organisations requesting cooperation for the strike said that no vehicles will be forcibly stopped and that all essential services are exempted.
Raj, a first-year BDS student at a private dental college in Anjarakkandy in Kannur district, was found critically injured after falling from a building on April 10 and later succumbed to his injuries.
Police have registered a case against two faculty members on charges of abetment of suicide and under provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, following allegations by the student’s family that he was subjected to caste- and complexion-based harassment.
Kerala Pinnokka Samudaya Munnani (KPSM), one of the organisations supporting the hartal, alleged in a statement that police had shown apathy in the investigation and were attempting to protect the accused in the case.
KPSM state president K V Padmanabhan and general secretary S Anwar alleged that the probe into Raj’s death was being deliberately misdirected and delayed.
While the family has firmly alleged that caste discrimination and mental harassment by faculty members led to the student’s death, police were attempting to divert the investigation towards loan app borrowings, they claimed.
The organisation alleged that this was a planned move to shield the real accused.
KPSM further alleged that by deliberately delaying the arrest of the accused teachers, police enabled them to secure anticipatory bail.
They said there was no confidence in the present police investigation and demanded that the case be handed over to an independent agency at the earliest.
