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Pradyuman murder case: Bus conductor to sue Gurgaon police for torture, forced confession

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Pradyuman murder case

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ashok Kumar was arrested by Gurgaon police for allegedly murdering Pradyuman, CBI has now arrested a Class 11 student for the crime

Ashok Kumar, the 42-year-old bus conductor at Ryan International School who was arrested on September 8 for allegedly murdering 7-year-old Pradyuman Singh, now plans to sue to the Gurgaon police in light of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s claim that the murder was actually the handiwork of a Class 11 student of the school.

The past week has seen dramatic developments in what has come to be called as the Pradyuman murder case which had stunned the national conscience when the Class 2 student was found with his throat slit lying outside the toilet of Gurgaon’s Ryan International School on the morning of September 8.

The Gurgaon police had, on the same day as Pradyuman’s murder, arrested Ashok Kumar for the crime and claimed that the bus conductor had confessed to having killed the child for having resisted his sexual advances. Earlier this week, the ongoing CBI probe in the case had revealed that Ashok’s arrest was a blatant cover up, aimed at shutting the investigation into a case that had triggered a political storm which even had the BJP drawing flak as it rules the state and also since the school’s promoters had close links with the saffron party.[/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]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[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]The CBI probe has, so far, endorsed what Pradyuman’s parents had maintained all along – that Ashok was being framed by the Gurgaon police and that they suspected that their son was murdered by some student at the school.

CBI’s arrest of a Class 11 student in the case – who purportedly murdered Pradyuman with the aim of getting examinations and a parent-teacher meet deferred – has come as a major relief for Ashok, who has been in jail since his arrest over two months ago. The premier investigation agency’s claim that the Gurgaon police had in fact carried out a “shoddy investigation” which even involved planting fake evidence – a knife that the local police said was used by Ashok for the crime – has given the 42-year-old bus conductor enough grounds to sue the Gurgaon police and the Ryan International School management for defaming him.

Ashok’s Rohtak-based lawyer Mohit Verma told mediapersons: “We are waiting for the CBI to file its closure report after which we will file cases against the police and school management for large-scale defamation of Ashok. The police clearly botched up the probe. The CBI did not find any motive he (Ashok) could have had in murdering Pradyuman, while they established the motive of the arrested Class 11 boy behind the crime.”[/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]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[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]The bus conductor’s father, Amirchand too asserted that his son was “framed and made a scapegoat”. Amirchand said that the family had “decided to file a case against Gurgaon Police SIT officers who framed and used torture and even drugged him (Ashok) to confess before the media that he had committed the crime.”

With the Juvenile Justice Board in Gurgaon remanding the Class 11 student accused of killing Pradyuman to three days in CBI custody, the premier investigation agency is likely to come out soon with a detailed account of what happened on that fateful day. The CBI’s charges against the Class 11 student would provide clear grounds for Ashok’s acquittal in the case.

In its application for seeking the Class 11 student’s custody, the CBI had stated that the accused had confessed to his crime. In a note submitted to the juvenile court, the probe agency had said: “On the basis of minute inspection of crime, analysis of the CCTV footage and movements of the students near the scene of crime, and questioning of students, teachers and other staff of the school on 7.11.2017, the CBI has identified and apprehended juvenile in conflict with law at 2330 hours. He has admitted his involvement in committing the murder of Master Pradyuman Thakur.”

Earlier, CBI sources had said that the local cops had “made several blunders in the investigation and overlooked crucial evidence.”

The CBI was able to piece together elements of the crime by analysing the CCTV footage, scientific and forensic examination, analysis of the crime scene and by questioning students, teachers and staff of the school, a CBI official said.

Sources in the CBI said that the most crucial evidence gathered by them in the case is a CCTV footage that was only partially examined by the Gurgaon police when the murder first came to light.

The video showed Pradyuman crawling out of the school’s bathroom. Seconds later the child collapsed near a wall outside the toilet with a pool of blood around him. The same camera had also recorded Ashok Kumar entering the bathroom before Pradyuman went in. While the footage shows Ashok walking out of the bathroom first, Pradyuman can be seen coming out next, holding his profusely bleeding neck. It was perhaps just this part of the footage that the Gurgaon police checked before deciding to arrest Ashok for the murder.

However, the CBI claims that there was more to the footage. The extended video, CBI sources said, shows five people outside the bathroom – Pradyuman, three students and Ashok. A CBI official said that the Class 11 student who has now been detained for the murder can also be seen in the video among the students who were standing outside the bathroom. The footage reportedly shows the Class 11 student calling out to a school gardener, alerting him to Pradyuman’s condition.

CBI sleuths said that a search of the toilet where Pradyuman’s throat was slit led to a knife that had been flushed down a pot and that the Class 11 student had been seen with the same knife in the school premises before the murder. This finding of the CBI is also in variance with the claims made by the Gurgaon police. The local cops had claimed that they had recovered a knife on Pradyuman’s person and that Ashok had confessed to have carried out the murder with this weapon and then throwing it on the child’s body before walking out of the washroom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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JMM-RJD-Congress are supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators: PM Modi at Jharkhand rally

Narendra Modi further claimed that if the bad policies of JMM, Congress and RJD continue, the adivasi society in Jharkhand will shrink

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JMM-RJD-Congress are supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators: PM Modi at Jharkhand rally

Ahead of the Jharkhand Assembly election, PM Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the incumbent Hemant Soren government, accusing it to put appeasement at the top of its agenda.

While addressing a rally in Jharkhand’s Garhwa, the Prime Minister said the coalition government of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Congress and RJD are supporters of Bangladesh infiltrators. He said that the JMM-RJD-Congress government has taken appeasement to its peak, and that these parties are destroying the state’s social harmony. He alleged that the parties are supporters of infiltrators, and to get votes of Bangladesh infiltrators, they are getting them settled across Jharkhand.

The Prime Minister stated that when schools disallow Saraswati Vandana, one can imagine how big the danger is. When there is stone-pelting during festivals, Maa Durga is stopped and curfew is imposed, one knows how dangerous it is, he continued. The Prime Minister also added that when the issue of infiltration goes to court and the administration denies, it becomes clear that the government machinery has been infiltrated. PM Modi was referring to allegations that a Muslim teacher stopped prayers to Goddess Saraswati at a school in Jharkhand’s Giridih.

Narendra Modi further claimed that if the bad policies of JMM, Congress and RJD continue, the adivasi society in Jharkhand will shrink, and advised people to use their vote to uproot this infiltrator coalition. He maintained that Jharkhand’s swift development is possible only if it has a government that expedites the implementation of central schemes.

Referring to the JMM’s decision to replace Champai Soren as Chief Minister after Hemant Soren was granted bail in a money laundering case, PM Modi said that the party has left no stones unturned in humiliating an adivasi son. He asked how the party will take care of the people of the state when nothing matters to them more than family. He added that he does not have a family, and the people are his family. He also mentioned that Champai Soren, once a trusted lieutenant of Hemant Soren, is now with the BJP.

Slamming the ruling coalition of corruption, he said that corruption hollows out the country like termites, and destroys the poor, Dalits, people from backward classes and tribals. He claimed that Jharkhand has seen for five years the corruption of the JMM-Congress-RJD government.

He also referred to the massive cash haul from the home of Congress’s former Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu last year. Mentioning that mountains of cash are recovered from the home of Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP, he questioned if this money didn’t belong to Jharkhand.

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Ruckus in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over resolution against Article 370 abrogation

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing the session, said that the resolution has no importance and it is only for the cameras.

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Ruckus in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly over resolution against Article 370 abrogation

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Monday witnessed chaos after People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Waheed Para moved a resolution opposing the abrogation of Article 370 and called for restoring the union territory’s special status.

Waheed Para, the PDP MLA from the Pulwama Assembly seat, submitted the resolution to newly elected Speaker, Abdul Rahim Rather and requested for a discussion on the matter during the five-day session, despite not being a part of the agenda.

It was submitted that although the agenda of the House has been finalised, they believe that the authority as the Speaker allows the inclusion of the resolution, as it reflects the sentiment of the people at large. After the resolution was submitted, all 28 Jammu and Kashmir BJP MLAs stood up to oppose the move, leading to noisy scenes inside the Assembly.

As the members protested, BJP MLA Sham Lal Sharma demanded Para’s suspension for bringing the resolution in violation of Assembly rules. The agitation continued even after the Speaker repeatedly requested the protesting members to take their seats. He asserted the resolution has not come to him yet and when it does, he would examine it.

While the BJP members refused to call off their protest, National Conference MLAs slammed them for interrupting the proceedings of the House. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah addressing the session, said that the resolution has no importance and it is only for the cameras.

The Chief Minister added that how the House will reflect and discuss this matter will not be decided by any one member. If there was a purpose behind the resolution, then they would have discussed this with the government before, he continued.

Nonetheless, CM Abdullah also admitted that the people of Jammu and Kashmir do not approve of the decision taken on August 5, 2019, when Article 370 was abrogated. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha also said that his government will make all efforts for the restoration of full statehood. He mentioned that restoration of full statehood would be a reciprocation of the faith reposed by the people of Jammu and Kashmir in democratic institutions.

Meanwhile, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti expressed that she was proud of Waheed Para for submitting the resolution.

Notably, Article 370 was a provision in the Constitution that granted special autonomy to the region of Jammu and Kashmir. It also allowed the state to have its own constitution, flag, and autonomy over internal matters except defense, communications, and foreign affairs.

However, the Centre on August 5, 2019 revoked Article 370, effectively removing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganising it into two Union Territories namely, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

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20 killed after bus falls into gorge near Uttarakhand’s Pauri-Almora border, CM Dhami expresses grief

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh each for the injured.

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20 killed after bus falls into gorge near Uttarakhand’s Pauri-Almora border, CM Dhami expresses grief

In a tragic incident, nearly 20 people were killed after a Garwal Motors Users bus fell into a 200-metre deep gorge near Uttarakhand’s Kupi in Ramnagar at Pauri-Almora border on Monday. The injured are being hurried to the hospital and a search operation is currently underway. At least 35 people were inside the bus when the accident occured.

The fatal accident was reported to authorities at around 9 am by passengers who had fallen from the bus during the accident. Police and teams from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are at the accident site in Marchula’s Salt area. 

Speaking to the media, District Magistrate Alok Kumar Pandey said that the bus was going from Garhwal to Kumaon where the accident took place at Marchula in Almora. Sanjay Kumar, Salt Sub-District Magistrate stated that some of the passengers have been rescued and admitted to hospital. 

Meanwhile, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh each for the injured. The Chief Minister also directed the Commissioner of the Kumaon division to carry out a magisterial inquiry into the incident. 

Taking to social media platform X, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed grief, and said that a very sad news has been received about the casualties of passengers in the unfortunate bus accident that took place in Marchula of Almora district. He added that the district administration has been instructed to carry out relief and rescue operations swiftly. 

Furthermore, CM Dhami stated that the local administration and SDRF teams at the accident site are working rapidly to evacuate the injured and take them to the nearest health centre for treatment. He mentioned that instruction have also been given to airlift seriously injured passengers if required. 

In a tweet, the Prime Minister’s office also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from PMNRF for the next of kin of each deceased in the mishap in Almora, adding that the injured would be given Rs 50,000.

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