Minor girl ‘gangraped’ on Durga Puja night in Kolkata

A minor girl was allegedly raped by three men in the city on Friday night while she had gone pandal hopping with them, police said on Wednesday. Two people have been arrested and the third is on the run, a senior officer of Kolkata police said. One of the three persons was her boyfriend, the officer said. Police said the victim has recorded her statement with the magistrate and the two accused have been remanded to police custody till October 9.

angry farmer identified as Sikandar Shah allegedly tried to spray him with some pesticide. Every fourth student who qualified for this year’s Madhya Pradesh civil service main examination from Indore’s Fast IAS academy got a call for an interview.

The institute is run by a Jain community member and all the students who qualified were also from the same community.

But the coincidence does not end there. The examination coordinator in a government college in remote Agar-Malwa district, where the students appeared for their examination, was a Jain and two examination controllers of MP Public Service Commission (MPPSC) were also from the same community.

The coincidences have created a political stir, with the opposition terming it yet another education scam in the state, which is infamous for the Vyapam racket related to manipulation in the selection process for government colleges and jobs conducted by the Madhya Pradesh professional examination board.

“We want the government to order a probe in this,” said Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress MP from Guna.

RTI activist Ajay Dubey added that it was almost impossible that so many students from a not-soreputed institute qualified for the interview.

The list of qualifying students was declared on September 28

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