A man and his underage son were booked in connection with a collision between an all-terrain vehicle (ATR) and a camel at Alibaug beach in Raigad
A screengrab of the viral video
A man and his underage son have been booked in connection with a collision between an all-terrain vehicle (ATR) and a camel at Alibaug beach in Raigad district of Maharashtra, a police official said on Thursday, reported the PTI.
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According to the PTI, the ATV hit the camel on January 28, resulting in the rider and a woman sitting on the animal falling, the official said.
"The ATV rider was underage. We have booked him and his father under Indian Penal Code and Wildlife Protection Act. The ATV was not registered with the tourism department and it was at high speed when the collision took place," Inspector Sanjay Bangar of Alibag police station said, as per the PTI.
A video of the incident went viral on social media.
Meanwhile, in an another incident, the Thane Police registered an FIR against four persons on Thursday, a day after more than 100 students of a private ashram school in Maharashtra's Thane district suffered from food poisoning after consuming the mid-day meal, an official said, the PTI reported.
A total of 117 students, including 48 girls, were admitted to the Shahapur sub-district hospital after they suffered from food poisoning on Wednesday, Shahapur tehsildar Komal Thakur told PTI.
The Sant Gadge Maharaj Primary and Secondary Ashram School (residential school for tribal children), where the incident took place, is located at Bhatsai in Shahapur taluka on the outskirts of Mumbai.
The school houses 290 students from Classes 1 to 10 and 168 of them, who were present on Wednesday, were served the food brought from outside, Thakur said, as per the PTI.
Students were served food (pulao) and a sweet dish (gulab jamun) following which they experienced vomiting and other symptoms of food poisoning, the official said.
They were immediately rushed to the hospital, she said.
The food was brought from outside on the occasion of the first death anniversary of a villager from Bhatsai, she added.
A case was registered against the school superintendent, headmistress of the primary school, headmaster of the secondary school and a person who brought the food from outside, an official from the district rural police control room said.
They have been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 284 (handling poisonous substance in a reckless or negligent manner, endangering human life), 336 (doing any act which endangers human life or personal safety of others), 337 (causing hurt to any person by committing an act, rashly or negligently, endangering human life or safety of others) and 34 (common intention), the police said.
(with PTI inputs)
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