The Sharad Pawar-led NCP will support a 6-year-old sexual assault victim in Maharashtra's Latur district and ensure she gets justice
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The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will support a 6-year-old sexual assault victim in Maharashtra's Latur district and ensure she gets justice, a functionary of the Sharad Pawar-led outfit said on Thursday, reported the PTI.
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According to the PTI, the girl was sexually assaulted last month, after which a 22-year-old man was arrested in the matter. The incident had led to protests and silent marches in several areas of the district.
"On Tuesday, we met the girl's family, who spoke to our working president Supriya Sule on phone. She promised to help the girl's kin fight for justice and also adopt her," claimed NCP Latur president Sanjay Shete, the news agency reported on Thursday.
Four booked after more than 100 students suffer from food poisoning
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.
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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