CRAZY INDIANS

Don Bosco dorm head held for abusing 10-year-old boy

Behrampore: The police arrested the dormitory superintendent of Manigram Don Bosco School in Murshidaba (Central West Bengal) on charges of sexually abusing a Class 5 hosteller of the institution. 

James Soren, the hostel head and a bachelor, allegedly committed the abuse during the night in his (Soren’s) room and had been on the run ever since a complaint was lodged against him. “He was returning on some personal work. Acting on a tipoff my officers nabbed him,” said Murshidabad superintendent of police Humayun Kabir. 

A senior officer of the district police told: “Soren took shelter in Krishnanagar (a town in adjoining Nadia district) after committing the crime. But the Don Bosco authorities compelled him to surrender before the police (when he returned).”

Soren had summoned the student to his room after dinner. There he reportedly tried to strip the boy and touch his private parts. 

Kabir said: “We have come to know that the guardians of another boy who used to study in the same school took his transfer in February after he was sexually abused by someone at the school. We are sending a police team to the student’s house.”

47 kids caned for demanding food

A primary teacher of a government-run school in Vadodara district was granted bail by a local court after she was arrested for having caned 47 students over a mid-day meal issue. 

The students had complained about “inadequate supplies” of the mid-day meal served at the institution. “We have  ordered the suspension of the teacher and launched an inquiry into it,” Vadodara district development officer Rakesh Shankar told, adding most of the children had received minor injuries, for which they were treated at the community health centre.

When astrologer was a villain 

Bangalore: In another case of gender-specific killing, a man allegedly killed his 20-day-old daughter by feeding her with donkey’s milk laced with poison. The incident took place at his in-laws’ house at Haadihosahalli village in Nelamangala taluk of Bangalore Rural district.

On a complaint from his wife Savitha and the mother of the child, the police arrested Nandish. According to the police, an astrologer had told Nandish that he would die within two months, as his daughter was born during an inauspicious moment. The astrologer is reported to have told Nandish that he would live only if his daughter died.

Shocked and upset by the prediction, Nandish went to his wife ‘s village armed with a plastic bottle filled with donkey’s milk with a poisonous substance mixed in it.

He told his in-laws that he wanted to feed his daughter as donkey’s milk has medicinal values.

Minutes later, the child began to froth at the mouth and was rushed to a local hospital. But when her condition worsened, she was rushed to a government hospital where she died.

Savitha accused her husband of killing her daughter as he did not want a baby girl. But Nandish told the police that he did not want to kill the girl and claimed that the bottle might have been contaminated. The police have sent the bottle for tests.