Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle arrives in B’luru, meets Masjid, temple board members
Archdiocese of Bangalore on Monday, in a press statement added that His Eminence Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Pro-Prefect and Dicastery for Evangelization from Vatican had arrived in Bengaluru to attend the 34th Plenary Session of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of India.
The conference will be held from January 24-30, 2023 at St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru. The theme of the Conference is "Telling the Story of Jesus in our Context: The Synodal Way".
“In continuation of his passion to promote Inter-Religious dialogue, His Eminence Cardinal Tagle took time to go with the Metropolitan Archbishop of Bangalore Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado, Msgr. S. Jayanathan, Msgr. C. Francis, Vicars General, of the Archdiocese of Bangalore to visit Khadriya Masjid, Millers Road, under the Management of Jumma Masjid Trust Board, and met Mr. Usman Sharieff, Secretary Jumma Masjid Trust Board and other Leaders of the Community, and His Eminence also visited the ISKCON Temple in Rajajinagar, and met His Grace Madhu Pandit Dasa, Temple President and Chairman of the Akshya Patra, exchanged pleasantrics and discussed matters of mutual interest.” The press release stated.
The Cardinal and the Archbishop also prayed earnestly for inter-religious harmony, solidarity and fellowship, it further added.
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FIR against 15 seniors after death of MBBS student due to ragging in Gujarat
Patan (Gujarat) (PTI): Police have registered an FIR against 15 students of a medical college in Gujarat's Patan district following the death of an 18-year-old student who was allegedly ragged by them, officials said on Monday.
The accused, all second-year MBBS students, allegedly made some juniors, including the victim, stand in a hostel room for more than three hours on Saturday night and subjected them to "mental and physical torture," as per the First Information Report (FIR).
They have booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other offences, the FIR said.
The accused students have been suspended from their hostel and academic activities until further orders, said officials from the GMERS Medical College and Hospital at Dharpur in Patan.
The victim, Anil Methaniya, a first-year MBBS student, fell unconscious and died allegedly after being made to stand for three hours during ragging by his seniors at a hostel of the college on Saturday night, the college dean, Dr Hardik Shah, said on Sunday.
The college's anti-ragging committee chaired by Dr Shah took the statements of 26 students -- 11 of the first-year and 15 second-year students.
The committee found that 11 first-year students were subjected to ragging by a group of 15 second-year students, a college official said on Monday.
As per the FIR lodged at Balisana police station shortly after midnight on Monday, the 15 accused called 11 first-year students, including Methaniya and his classmates, to a hostel room on Saturday night for "introduction".
They made the juniors stand for nearly three-and-a half hours while forcing them to sing and dance, utter abusive words and not leave the room.
Methaniya's health deteriorated as the students were subjected to mental and physical torture. The victim fainted and fell down at around midnight. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, the FIR stated.
Based on a complaint by the college's additional dean Dr Anil Bhathija, the FIR was lodged against 15 students under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, wrongful confinement, unlawful assembly, and using obscene words.
