Scolded for studies, teenaged girl strangles mother with belt
Thane: A 15-year-old girl allegedly strangulated her mother to death with a karate belt after being scolded over her studies in Navi Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
The girl later tried to pass it off as a case of accidental death, they said. The incident took place at their home in Airoli area of Navi Mumbai township on July 30.
The girl's parents wanted her to become a doctor and had enrolled her for the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) classes.
But, the girl did not want to pursue a medical course and because of this she and her 40-year-old mother used to have frequent quarrels, an official at Rabale police station said.
On July 27, the girl's father had scolded her for playing with her mobile phone, following which she left the house and went to her uncle's place nearby.
The official said her mother went there and called her back, after which the girl told her she was fed up of the harassment over studies and would go to police station to file a complaint against her parents.
The woman then took her daughter to a police station where the police personnel counselled both of them, he said. On July 30, the woman again scolded the girl over the issue of her studies.
During their fight, the woman allegedly threatened the girl with a knife, the official said.
Fearing that her mother was going to kill her, the girl pushed her following which woman fell and injured her head from the corner of a cot.
The woman, who was in a semi-conscious state, tried to grab a karate belt lying nearby. On seeing that, the girl grabbed the belt and allegedly strangulated her mother to death with it, the official said.
The girl later sent a WhatsApp message to her father and uncle from her mother's phone, saying "I tried everything I quit", according to the police.
She then locked the house and went outside. She called her father over phone and told him that her mother was not opening the door.
Her father informed her uncle who went to their house. He broke open the door and found the woman lying dead on the bed with the karate belt around her neck, the official said.
The police doubted the girl's version, he said, adding that they sent the body for postmortem and the report revealed that the woman died due to the head injury and strangulation.
During questioning of the family members, the police suspected the girl's role into the incident, he said.
"We took her into confidence and she narrated what happened (the sequence of events)," the official said.
The teenager was detained on Monday and a case was registered under Indian Penal Code Section 302 (murder), he said.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
