Muzaffarpur:

A class 11 student in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Saturday succumbed to injuries received on the previous day at his school where two groups of students had clashed inside the classroom, a police officer said.

According to Muzaffarpur Superintendent of Police (Rural) Vidya Sagar, Saurabh Kumar was a student of Turki government high school, situated in Kurhani block of the district.

“Saurabh and his friends had clashed with another group led by Om Prakash and Prahlad. A video of the fight has gone viral on social media. Saurabh was struck on his head with a bamboo stick. He was rushed to a hospital where he breathed his last this morning,” the police officer said.

He said that cross FIRs had been lodged by family members of students from both sides soon after the clash and, following the death, “the charge of murder will be added to the case lodged against those who attacked Saurabh”.

Asked whether the dead student and the accused were minors, the SP replied, “That is not clear since the students were from a senior class. However, we are ascertaining their age from the school records.” He said police were looking into all possible angles, including rumours that the clash was triggered over a love affair.

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Patna:

Bihar’s Kishanganj police on Sunday arrested four persons in connection with the gan-grape of a 30-year-old woman.

The accused, identified as Sher Singh (55), Aakash Singh (27), Brijlal Singh (30) and Shayamu Singh (25), allegedly kidnapped the woman on Saturday from her house located at Halim Chowk under Kishanganj police station area and took her in a Bolero camper van. Later, they brutalised her at knifepoint in a maize field.

The accused, after committing the crime, threatened her with dire consequences and fled from the spot in the van. The survivor reached home and narrated her ordeal.

“We received a complaint of gang-rape. As the matter was very sensitive, we immediately constituted a team to arrest the accused. The woman provided us the description of the accused and our team gathered the input about them. They were traced at Mahalgaon village in Araria district. We immediately conducted a raid there and arrested them,” said Sagar Kumar, Superintendent of Police (SP), Kishanganj.

“We have conducted the medical examination of the woman in the Sadar hospital which confirmed rape. Accordingly, we have registered an FIR under relevant sections of IPC 363, 366, 376D, 506, and 34 in women police station on Saturday evening,” Mr Kumar said.

“The accused are natives of Haridwar, Uttarakhand and they live like nomads. They had kidnapped the woman in their camper van. We have also seized the vehicle,” the SP added.

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