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Lone AI-171 crash survivor speaks out LEICESTER: Four-and-a-half months after the June 12 crash of Air India flight AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, the only survivor, 39-year-old Vishwashkumar Ramesh, remains physically injured, financially strained and deeply traumatised.Vishwash, who was in seat 11A next to the emergency exit, walked away from the burning wreckage…
Kolkata: People stage a protest over the alleged rape of a medical student in Durgapur of West Bengal, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) Durgapur: The Durgapur gang rape survivor identified five accused in the case, who allegedly violated and extorted her, at Durgapur Correctional Home on Friday in the presence of a magistrate. The sixth…
MEERUT: Roshni (name changed) was 15 when her life was ruined by a man who threw acid on her for breaking off their engagement. She lost an eye and her face was disfigured. It was 1997. What followed were years of pain and trauma, along with a series of corrective surgeries amid huge financial distress….
DURGAPUR/KOLKATA: Two accused in the Durgapur gang-rape case, Sk Riyazuddin and Sk Safiq, moved a plea before a local court on Sunday for permission to confess their role in the Oct 10 incident.Police officers involved in the probe said if the court accepts the plea, the two may be treated as approvers during the trial….
BENGALURU: A 21-year-old engineering student from a reputed South Bengaluru college was arrested on charges of raping his senior inside the men’s washroom on the college campus on Oct 10. The accused has been suspended with immediate effect, the college confirmed on Friday.Police slapped a case against the accused under Section 64 of BNS. Both…
KOLKATA: Allowing a girl student to step out of a campus “located in a forested area” past midnight is “shocking”, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said Sunday while taking the authorities of a private medical college in Durgapur to task for the circumstances leading to her alleged gang rape late Friday.“How did they (the girl and…
NAGPUR: Holding that a minor’s consent for a physical relationship is “irrelevant” under current law, Nagpur bench of Bombay HC has refused to quash a case filed under Pocso Act against a 29-year-old Washim man who married a 17-year-old and fathered her child. HC ruled Friday that the FIR cannot be dismissed merely because the…
