Rescue team gets out body of worker trapped under debris of Maharani’s Science College old building
Mysuru: The body of a worker trapped under the debris of a part of the old building at the Maharani’s Science College for Women in the city was taken out post-midnight on Wednesday, with the rescue team putting in nine hours of effort searching for the worker.
The deceased worker is identified as Saddam (32), a resident of Ajeejsait Nagar in Mysuru.
The College is situated on Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Road and the authorities are getting the 108-year-old building renovated at a cost of Rs 54 crore. The structure, which was weakening, collapsed on Tuesday evening amidst its restoration work.
More than 100 personnel of the Fire and Emergency Services department, the Police Department, the Mysore City Corporation, and members of the NGO Humanitarian Relief Society joined to clear the debris and rescue the worker.
The body is learned to have been sighted at around 1.45 am on Wednesday and taken out by the team at around 2 am. The body was sent to the mortuary of the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute for the post-mortem examination, a rescue team member has said.
Saddam’s wife Aisha, 7-year-old and 2-year-old daughters, siblings and other relatives waited near the site throughout the search operation hoping that he would stay alive, but were distraught by the news.
In addition, local MLA K Harish Gowda, Deputy Commissioner G Lakshmikanth Reddy and City Police Commissioner Seema Latkar were present near the building site through the operation.
Thirteen workers were reportedly working on the first floor of the building. While only three of them were still working on the floor at the time of the mishap, two are known to have exited on hearing a strange noise but Saddam got stuck inside during the collapse, sources have said.
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Wangchuk not given videos which formed basis of his detention: Wife to SC
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New Delhi (PTI): Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali J Angmo alleged in the Supreme Court on Thursday that four videos which formed the basis of her husband's detention were not shown to him and only the thumbnails on pen drive were displayed.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing in the court for Angmo, told a bench of justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B Varale that not supplying the videos violated Wangchuk's right to effective representation before the advisory board as well as the government.
"It is now alleged by the State that that DIG came with a laptop and shown four videos. The laptop was provided to detenue on October 5, 2025, but those four vidoes were not there.
"Let us assume they showed it to be, that is not the requirement of law. The requirement is to give it to me. They have to provide the document, I don't have to ask. It is there constitutional duty to supply. We have said that time and again that the four was never supplied," Sibal said.
Another lawyer assisting Sibal informed the court that the pen drive was inserted in the laptop before Wangchuk and he only saw the thumbnails.
"The videos were not actually played. None of the thumbnails were actually clicked," the lawyer said.
Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj submitted that there is a video in which the conversation with the DIG and detenue will show everything.
The top court said it see the relevant video recordings, including a 40-minute video of the interaction between police officials and the detenue.
The matter is now posted for hearing on February 23.
On Monday, the apex court had questioned the Centre about the transcripts of videos submitted by it against Wangchuk and said the translations should be precise in the age of artificial intelligence.
It had told Nataraj that it wanted actual transcripts of Wangchuk's statements from the government after Sibal submitted that some of the words attributed to the activist were never said by him.
The top court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali Angmo, seeking a declaration that his detention under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, is illegal.
The NSA empowers the Centre and the states to detain individuals to prevent them from acting in a manner "prejudicial to the defence of India."
The maximum detention period is 12 months, though it can be revoked earlier. Angmo said the violence in Leh on September 24 last year cannot be attributed in any manner to the actions or statements of Wangchuk.
Wangchuk himself condemned the violence through his social media handles and categorically said it would lead to the failure of Ladakh's "tapasya" and its peaceful pursuit of five years, Angmo said, adding that it was the saddest day of his life.
