24-year-old scientist from Puttur hangs himself to death after resigning from job with DRDO
Puttur: A 24-year-old scientist, Bharat, who was a native of Kallarpe of Aryapu village of the taluk, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at home late Wednesday night.
The deceased scientist had been employed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Hyderabad two months ago but had resigned from the job a week ago before returning home to Kallarpe. His resignation letter, however, had not been accepted by the DRDO officials, who called him on his phone on Wednesday night, said his relatives. The family members also stated that Bharat went to bed after speaking to the officials but committed suicide late in the night.
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A case has been registered by the Puttur Rural Police officers, who are investigating the incident.
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Sleeping together in fear of elephant attack, 3 children die of snake bite in Jharkhand
Garwah (Jharkhand), Sep 6: Three children who were sleeping together in fear of elephant attacks, died of snakebite in a village in Jharkhand’s Garwah district, police said on Friday.
The incident happened in Chapkali village, under the jurisdiction of Chinia police station of the district, a police officer said.
Scared of elephant attacks, around 8 to 10 children of a family were sleeping on the floor of their tile home when the reptile, reportedly a Krait, sneaked into the house, situated in Nawanagar Tola, and bit the three on Thursday night, the police officer said.
Following the incident, the victims were taken to a sorcerer at around 1 am, where two of them died.The family members then took the third victim to a quack but she died on the way, the police officer said.
The deceased were identified as Pannalal Korwa (15), Kanchan Kumari (8), and Baby Kumari (9), the Officer-in-Charge of Chinia police station Neeraj Kumar said.
Meanwhile, the villagers are being forced to sleep in safe places owing to the prevailing elephant menace.
The pachyderms enter the human habitat in search of food.
Some villagers were compelled to sleep on the roof of school buildings or in groups at one place in the village, the locals claimed.
