Three of family killed in road accident in Jaipur
Jaipur (PTI): Three members of a family were killed and as many injured when a speeding car hit them while they were standing on the roadside here on Sunday morning, police said.
They had returned from Haridwar after performing the last rites of a family member and were waiting to be picked up by a relative near Doi Ki Dhani in Chaksu tehsil here, they said.
"Three people, including a woman and her son, were killed in the accident. Three people were also injured," said Assistant Sub-Inspector Madan Choudhary.
The car driver, who abandoned his vehicle and fled the spot, was probably in an inebriated condition as a liquor bottle has been recovered from the vehicle, he said.
The deceased were identified as Sunita, her son Golu and her brother-in-law Sitaram. They had returned after performing the last rites of Sunita's husband Madan, the police said.
They said the bodies have been kept in a mortuary of a hospital in Chaksu for post-mortem examination.
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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.
