In a shocking incident, a seventh grader made a suicide bid by consuming insecticide in the school toilet allegedly to escape “persisting harassment” by her physical education teacher in Samba district of Jammu region.
The girl was immediately rushed to District Hospital, Samba, from where she was later referred to SMGS hospital in Jammu for advanced treatment.
According to family sources, the Class 7 student on Thursday afternoon consumed phenyl kept in school toilet after she was allegedly harassed by her physical education teacher, Devender Singh Slathia. The principal of the school, however, refuted the harassment charges. The girl recently won acclaim from both the critics as well as masses for her performance in the Dogri film.
Her father is in the Crime Branch while her mother is in IRP Battalion.
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No boycott of Obama’s address: Left
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
Oct. 29: The Left parties will not boycott the US President Barack Obama addresses the Parliament on November 8 upon his arrival in India but are looking at making a token appearance on that day in Parliament.
While the top leaders of the four Left parties will attend the US President’s address, some other MPs may stay away. In a simultaneous move, the Left parties have decided to hold a nationwide protest against the policies of the US government on the same day to project “the views of the vast mass of the people of India” on issues like scrapping of the Indo-US Defence Framework Agreement and the extradition of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in the Bhopal tragedy case.