Uttar Pradesh : Expelled class 10 student shoots principal
BIJNOR: A class X student of a private inter college allegedly shot at his school principal with a country-made weapon on Wednesday after he was expelled from the school due to his violent behaviour with other students. The principal received bullet injuries on his left shoulder, and was admitted to a district hospital for treatment. A case has been registered against the accused but he is at large.
According to police, the student - Deepanshu Kumar (17) of Narawali village under Syohara police station area - took admission in Shri Sai Inter College of Rooppur 15 days ago. Earlier, he was a student of Priyanka school. Deepanshu is a notorious student and often quarrels with other students. He appeared for the class X board examination last year, which he failed to clear.
After he was rusticated by the Priyanka school management, he took admission in Shri Sai Inter College. Soon after joining, Deepanshu got involved in a brawl with his classmates and thrashed a student on August 25. On learning about the episode, the principal Sanjeev Kumar consulted the college management and expelled Deepanshu from the school.
On Wednesday around 11am, Deepanshu, along with his mother, reached the institute to speak to the principal over the incident. The principal, however, refused to change his mind and denied taking him back because of his violent behaviour. Deepanshu returned home and after dropping his mother, went back to his institute with a country-made pistol and shot at the Kumar. The principal received bullet injuries on his shoulder and collapsed. Deepanshu fled from the spot with the weapon and is still at large.
School staff informed the cops about the incident, who took the principal to the district hospital. His condition is stated to be stable now. There was panic among students and school staff after the incident.
According to the principal, “Deepanshu has violent behaviour. He had thrashed some students after we had taken his admission here. I had warned him several times but my warning and advice had no fallen on his deaf ear. He was not agree to change his behaviour. And he was spoiling peaceful and disciplined atmosphere of the school. After consulting with management, I had expelled him and informed his family members. He had come with his mother on Wednesday. But we refused his mother not to change my decision. This enraged him. He left school around 11:15am and again returned alone and aimed gun at me and opened fire. Fortunately, I dodged and escaped. However, I received bullet injuries on my shoulder.”
Kumar further stated, “I have filed a complaint against the boy for attempting to kill me.”
Giving more details, Syohara station house officer, Arihant Kumar Sidharth, said, “Police have registered a case against the accused under section 307 of IPC and he is at large. He will be arrested soon. The student Deepanshu was expelled from the school after which he shot at principal. The mother of accused is a govt teacher by profession.”
courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Actress sexual assault: Court says Prosecution 'miserably' failed to prove conspiracy against Dileep
Kochi (PTI): The prosecution had "miserably" failed to prove the conspiracy charge against Dileep in the sensational 2017 actress sexual assault case, a local court has observed while citing inconsistencies and lack of sufficient evidence against the Malayalam star.
The full judgement of Ernakulam District and Principal Sessions Court Judge Honey M Varghese was released late on Friday, and has revealed the judge also pointing out at unsustainable arguments put forth by the prosecution.
"The prosecution miserably failed to prove the conspiracy between accused No.1 (Pulsar Suni) and accused No.8 (Dileep) in executing the offence against the victim," the court held.
It examined in detail, the prosecution's allegation that Dileep had hired the prime accused to sexually assault the survivor and record visuals, including close-up footage of a gold ring she was wearing, to establish her identity.
On page 1130 of the judgment, under paragraph 703, the court framed the issue as whether the prosecution's contention that NS Sunil (Pulsar Suni) recorded visuals of the gold ring worn by the victim at the time of the occurrence, so as to clearly disclose her identity, was sustainable.
The prosecution contended Dileep and Suni had planned the recording so that the actress' identity would be unmistakable, with the video of the gold ring intended to convince Dileep that the visuals were genuine.
However, the court noted that this contention was not stated in the first charge sheet and was introduced only in the second one.
As part of this claim, a gold ring was seized after the victim produced it before the police.
The court observed that multiple statements of the victim were recorded from February 18, 2017, following the incident, and that she first raised allegations against Dileep only on June 3, 2017.
Even on that day, nothing was mentioned about filming of the ring as claimed by the prosecution, the court said.
The prosecution failed to explain why the victim did not disclose this fact at the earliest available opportunities.
It further noted that although the victim had viewed the sexual assault visuals twice, she did not mention any specific recording of the gold ring on those occasions, which remained unexplained.
The court also examined the approvers' statements.
One approver told the magistrate that Dileep had instructed Pulsar Suni to record the victim's wedding ring.
The court observed that no such wedding ring was available with her at that time.
During the trial, the approver changed his version, the court said.
The Special Public Prosecutor put a leading question to the approver on whether Dileep had instructed the recording of the ring, after which he deposed that the instruction was to record it to prove the victim's identity.
The court observed that the approver changed his account to corroborate the victim's evidence.
When the same question was put to another approver, he repeated the claim during the trial but admitted he had never stated this fact before the investigating officer.
The court noted that the second approver even went to the extent of claiming Dileep had instructed the execution of the crime as the victim's engagement was over.
This showed that the evidence of the second approver regarding the shooting of the ring was untrue, as her engagement had taken place after the crime.
The court further observed that the visuals themselves clearly revealed the victim's identity and that there was no need to capture images of the ring to establish identity.
In paragraph 887, the court examined the alleged motive behind the crime and noted that in the first charge sheet, the prosecution had claimed that accused persons 1 to 6 had kidnapped the victim with the common intention of capturing nude visuals to extort money by threatening to circulate them and there was no mention about Dileep's role in it.
The court also rejected the prosecution's claim that the accused had been planning the assault on Dileep's instructions since 2013, noting that the allegation was not supported by reliable evidence.
It similarly ruled out the claim that Suni attempted to sexually assault the victim in Goa in January 2017, stating that witness statements showed no such misconduct when he served as the driver of the vehicle used by the actress there.
The court also discussed various controversies that followed Dileep's arrest and the evidence relied upon by the prosecution, ultimately finding that the case had not been proved.
Pronouning its verdict on the sensational case on December 8, the court acquitted Dileep and three others.
Later, the court sentenced six accused, including the prime accused Suni, to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment.
The assault on the multilingual actress, after the accused allegedly forced their way into her car and held it under their control for two hours on February 17, 2017, had shocked Kerala.
Pulsar Suni sexually assaulted the actress and video recorded the act with the help of the other convicted persons in the moving car.
