Puttur: Rape victim to get education outside District: NCW member
Puttur: The National Commission for Women would ensure education for Puttur gang-rape victim in outside district, NWC member Shyamala Kundar said.
After visiting the house of the victim and speaking to the girl and her parents at Puttur on Monday, she told reporters that the girl was depressed mentally due to the incident. But she has expressed her desire to continue her education and her mother also wanted her to become a higher officer. The NCW would make all arrangements to complete her education, she said.
Compensation
In order to empower her economically, the Commission has taken all steps. From the Social Welfare Department, a compensation of Rs 412250 would be credited to her bank account on July 9 and remaining Rs 4 lakh would be given to her in coming days. The Commission would take all possible steps for her education and compensate her and her parents, Kundar assured.
Friendship misused
In her 45 minutes speech, she explained the pain she has experienced. Her own classmates invited her for friendly discussion and later raped her. According to her mother, the girl used to be friendly with others and this was misused by her classmates, Kundar said.
Visits college
Kundar also visited the college where the accused was studying and discussed with the college management which has already constituted a five-member internal committee to collect the information and probe the incident. The college was given suggestions and direction to conduct awareness programmes in the college, she said.
The parents who question their daughters when they are late to homes, should keep their sons in control. Otherwise, the parents have to face the problem for mistakes done by their kids. Its parents' responsibility to educate their children about good behaviour. The Commission would take steps to make such awareness programmes more effective, Shyamala Kundar said.
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Three of family killed as car overturns in Mandya
Mandya (PTI): Three members of a family, two of them women, were killed when the car they were travelling in overturned and fell into a ditch on Sunday, police said.
The driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a bridge on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway at Nagamangala in Mandya district, police added.
The deceased were identified as Chandregowda (62) and Sarojamma (57), both residents of Chikkamagaluru. They were returning to their hometown when the accident occurred, police sources said.
In another incident near Agaralinganna Doddi in Maddur taluk, a private bus overturned on a service road, injuring more than 30 people. Locals helped rescue the passengers after the accident.
The passengers were travelling to Bengaluru after visiting the Shimsha Maramma temple in Malavalli. The injured were taken to hospitals in Mandya and Maddur for treatment.
