Bhopal:

A professor at the Government JH PG College in Madhya Pradesh’s was brutally assaulted in the campus with sticks and chilli powder. The incident unfolded on Friday afternoon when a group of assailants, numbering between five and seven, barged into the college premises with sticks and chilli powder. Their target: Assistant Professor Neeraj Dhakad from the Sanskrit department.

The attackers wasted no time as they incapacitated Professor Dhakad by throwing chilli powder into his eyes before beating him with sticks. CCTV cameras captured the entire horrifying episode. Footage reveals the attackers storming into the Sanskrit department and launching a vicious assault on Professor Dhakad, who was engaged in a discussion with students at the time.

Eyewitnesses recounted the harrowing scene, describing how the attackers continued their assault until Professor Dhakad collapsed unconscious. Shockingly, despite the presence of other faculty members and students nearby, no one intervened to halt the attack. It was only after the aattackers fled that colleagues rushed to Professor Dhakad’s aid, transporting him to the district hospital.

Medical reports confirmed that Professor Dhakad sustained severe injuries, including fractures to his head, hands, and legs. The motive behind this attack appears to stem from a previous argument between Professor Dhakad and one of the attackers identified as Annu Thakur, a former student of the college.

Just a month ago, tensions had flared between Professor Dhakad and Annu Thakur over alleged irregularities involving the college’s scholarship program. Annu Thakur was reportedly caught attempting to misuse Professor Dhakad’s official seal and letterhead, leading to a confrontation that, until now, seemed resolved.

In a statement from his hospital bed, Professor Dhakad said, “I was discussing student projects when suddenly five boys entered, threw chilli powder, and started hitting me with sticks. I recognized them; they were Annu Thakur’s men. Their intention was to kill me.”

Police have registered a case of attempted murder and launched a manhunt to arrest the remaining attackers who were captured on the CCTV footage.

A cleaner discovered two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of an abandoned rented Hong Kong flat on Saturday, as per a report in Fox News. A man and a woman, who are believed to be the parents of the two boys, have been detained. 

At a briefing, officials stated that they are continuing to look into the two boys’ deaths. Both seemed to be less than a year old. “The bodies were soaked in liquid and kept in bottles that were placed in the corner of the living room,” the report added. The bodies were found after the landlord sent a cleaner to the house since the flat had been vacated.

To ascertain the exact age of the babies and to understand whether they were dead at birth, Chief Inspector Au Yeung Tak of the New Territories North division informed reporters that an autopsy would be conducted. He added that the bottles were 30 centimetres tall and the bodies had no obvious signs of injury.

Two people, a 22-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, were taken into custody on suspicion of unlawful body disposal. According to Mr. Au Yeung, they are thought to be a couple. The man is reported to be a warehouse worker and the woman works in public relations.

In a similar incident, a one-year-old girl was found hidden a in dresser drawer at a home in Oklahoma, USA. Authorities believe Roan Waters, her mother’s boyfriend, killed her and hid her body in a drawer in an abandoned house close to Morgantown. Her death was classified as a “homicide of unspecified means.”

The police inspecting the house at Ammanapara. near Pariyaram. in Kannur where a four-member gang robbed 10 sovereigns of gold after tying up a 63-year-old woman on the night of October 19, 2023.
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A four-member gang robbed 10 sovereigns of gold after tying up a 63-year-old woman in her house at Pariyaram in Kannur district of Kerala on October 19 night.

Only the woman and two children were at the house at the time of the incident. The children were upstairs and were unaware of the robbery. They found the women tied up and her mouth plastered only the following day morning. The woman is their aunt.

According to the police, the masked gang entered the house of Dr. Shakir at Ammanpara after breaking a window. The doctor and his wife had left for Thiruvananthapuram around 11 p.m. that day. The robbery took place after their departure.

The police have registered a case in connection with the incident. A forensic team reached the spot and started an investigation.

A few weeks ago, burglars broke into another house in the area and stole over 25 sovereign of gold. The police are yet to catch the culprits.