IIT-Guwahati student from Karnataka commits suicide
Leaves note saying she wanted to be teacher, not engineer
GUWAHATI : A first year student from Karnataka, pursuing B.Tech course in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself for a ceiling fan on Wednesday morning.
Police said the student, 18-year-old Nagashree S.C. from Hosanagara near Shivamogga, left a note behind saying she wanted to be a teacher, not an engineer.
“She wrote that it was better to die than fail to live up to the expectation of her parents and family members,” Rana Bhuyan, in-charge of Amingaon police outpost, told The Hindu.
The police from the outpost broke open the door of Nagashree's hostel room about 10:30 am after IIT-G security guards spotted her, from outside the windows, hanging from a ceiling fan. A doctor of the institute declared her dead.
“She told her roommate she was not feeling well and would skip class. Her roommate left but returned after the first class and found the door locked from inside. She informed the security guards, who informed the police at Amingaon,” an IIT-G spokesperson said.
IIT-G is located at Amingaon, about 20 km from the heart of Guwahati across the Brahmaputra.
“We have informed the girl's family, but we are not sure if they would be able to arrive today,” the spokesperson said.
Police said Nagashree's body has been sent for post mortem.
courtesy : thehindu.com
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Allahabad HC dismisses petition seeking permission to mount loudspeaker on mosque
Prayagraj, Jan 24 (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition seeking direction to the state authorities to permit the mounting of loudspeakers on a Masjid.
The court observed that the religious places were for offering prayers, therefore the use of loudspeakers was not a matter of right.
Dismissing the writ petition filed by Pilibhit-resident Mukhtiyar Ahmad, a two judge-bench, comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Donadi Ramesh, observed, "Religious places are for offering prayers to the divinity and use of loudspeakers cannot be claimed as a matter of right, particularly when often such use of loudspeakers create nuisance for the residents".
At the outset, the state counsel objected to the maintainability of the writ on the grounds that the petitioner was neither a mutawalli, nor did the mosque belong to him.
The court also noted that the petitioner did not have locus to file the writ petition.
The term 'locus' is a legal concept that refers to the right of a person or entity to participate in a legal proceeding or bring a lawsuit.
