Ludhiana: Four-year-old boy dies after being thrown in sewer by farmer over playing on his filed
Ludhiana, Jan 5: A four-year-old boy died after allegedly being thrown into a sewer by a farmer in Machhiwara, about 40 km from here, police said on Thursday.
The farmer named Babu Lal was allegedly upset with the children playing and flying kites in his fields, Inspector Davinder Pal Singh, SHO Machhiwara police station, said.
For the past few days, some children of a nearby colony used to come to his field to pick up kites that had fallen there and play afterwards, damaging the farmer's crops, he said.
On Wednesday evening when the children came to pick up a kite, Lal, who is originally from Uttar Pradesh, was already standing in the field with a stick.
As soon as the children entered the field he ran after them. Except for one Anshu, the rest of the children managed to escape from the man.
After catching hold of the minor, Lal allegedly threw him into a nearby gutter, he said.
Police arrested the man and charged him with murder and handed over the child's body to the family after a post-mortem examination.
Geeta Devi, the mother of the deceased said the police should get justice for his family and that can be achieved only when the murderer of her innocent son is hanged.
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Rohit Sharma lashes out at IPL broadcasters for breaching privacy
New Delhi, May 19: India skipper Rohit Sharma on Sunday lashed out at the IPL broadcasters for "breaching" cricketers' privacy by recording their conversations with friends and colleagues at training and on match days and then telecasting the contents.
Rohit expressed his disappointment after a video involving him and Kolkata Knight Riders assistant coach Abhishek Nayar, in which the former is seen contemplating his future at the Mumbai Indians, went viral.
"The lives of cricketers have become so intrusive that cameras are now recording every step and conversation we are having in privacy with our friends and colleagues, at training or on match days," Rohit posted on X.
He added, "Despite asking Star Sports to not record my conversation, it was and was also then played on air, which is a breach of privacy."
"The need to get exclusive content and focused only on views and engagement will one day break the trust between the fans, cricketers and cricket. Let better sense prevail."
Rohit was seen making a request to the broadcasters to shut down the audio while recording him after his chat with Nayar. The conversation between the two took place after MI's IPL fixture against KKR on May 11.
The audio of the chat was posted by KKR on their social media handle and fans assumed that the cricketer is speaking about leaving MI after the ongoing season.
Following the controversy, the video was taken down by the Knight Riders' social media team.
Few days after that, on May 17, Rohit was once again seen having a chat with Dhawal Kulkarni ahead of MI's fixture against Lucknow Super Giants. Seeing himself being recorded, the opener, with folded hands, requested the broadcaster to turn off the audio as one audio has already got him into trouble.
"Bhai audio band karo haan, already ek audio ne mera waat laga diya (Brother please close the audio, one audio has already made things difficult for me)," said Sharma in the video that also went viral.
