What a shame!

[P_R]

TIMES NOW asks:

- Are poor children criminals just because they are poor?

- Will children in private schools get corrupted if poor children study with them ?

ToI
oru news-um uRuppadiyA refort paNNa mAttAinga pOla.

The circular was largely about the Principal objecting to loss of control. Apparently the school cannot dismiss or fail any pupil according to the RTE.

Circular text kidaikka mAttEngudhu.

[Punnaimaran]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/girl-forc...3.html?from=tn

Saharanpur: In an shocking incident in Bhalsua village of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, a 13-year-old schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide after she was forced to clean the school toilet following the failure to deposit her fees on time.


The victim Lakshmi was a class 3 student and was the daughter of a daily wage labourer. Her parents say she took the extreme step because she was feeling humiliated for having being forced to clean the school toilet.


"Just because I could not pay the fees, my daughter got into cleaning after the school hours. The school authorities did not raise voice against it, rather approved it. I never wanted my daughter to do such things and what I see after three days, is that she hanged herself," said Lakshmi's mother Reena.
Her parents said that school authorities told them that she would not be allowed to attend the classes till they cleared the arrears. When her parents expressed their helplessness the girl apparently took the extreme step in humiliation.


Police are investigating the matter. The school management has been inaccessible for comments.

[app_engine]

13 year old in class 3?

somewhere kicking...

[Lambretta]

'got this in an email fwd....reading it with a pinch of salt...but I wouldnt be surprised if it were true!

Passport Tearing at Indian Airports....Read it Carefully.!!!



Be Careful at the Indian Airports, This is a well organized conspiracy by Indian Immigration, Police, Customs and Air India staff with networking at all the Indian International Airports.. Be careful when ever you give your passport to Immigration/ Customs/Air India staff. The pass port can be easily tampered and can create trouble to you. They have found easy way of making money from NRIs. This is the way it works:

At the time of the passenger's departure, if the passenger is not looking at the officer while he is stamping the exit, the officer very cleverly tears away one of the page from the passport. When the passenger leaves the immigration counter, the case is reported on his computer terminal with full details. Now all over India they have got full details of the passenger with Red Flag flashing on the Passport number entered by the departure immigration officer. They have made their money by doing above.

On arrival next time, he is interrogated

Subject to the passenger's period of stay abroad, his income and standing etc., the price to get rid of the problem is settled by the Police and Immigration people. If someone argues, his future is spoiled because there are always some innocent fellows who think the honesty is the basis of getting justice in India ....

Please advise every passenger to be careful at the airport. Whenever they hand over the passport to the counters of Air India , or immigration or the customs, they must be vigilant, should not remove eyes from the passport even if the officer in front tries to divert their attention.

Also, please pass this information to all friends, media men and important politicians. Every month 20-30 cases are happening all over India to rob the NRIs the minute he lands. Similar case has happened with Aramco's Arifuddin. He was travelling with his family. They had six passports. They
Got the visa of America and decided to go via Hyderabad from Jeddah. They reached Hyderabad . Stayed about a month and left for the States. When they reached the States, the page of the American visa on his wife's passport was missing. At the time of departure from Hyderabad it was there, the whole family had to return to Hyderabad helplessly. On arrival at Bombay back, they were caught by the police and now it is over 2 months, they are running after the Police, Immigration officers and the Courts. On going in to details with him, he found out the following: One cannot imagine, neither can believe, that the Indian Immigration dept can play such a nasty game to harass the innocent passengers.

All the passengers travelling to & fro India via Bombay and Hyderabad must be aware of this conspiracy. Every month 15 to 20 cases are taking place, at each mentioned airport, of holding the passengers in the crime of tearing away the passport pages.On interviewing some of them, none of them was aware of what had happened. They don't know why, when and who tore away the page from the middle of the passport. One can imagine the sufferings of such people at the hands of the immigration, police and the court procedures in India after that. The number of cases is increasing in the last 2-3 years. People who are arriving at the immigration, they are questioned and their passports are being held and they have to go in interrogation. Obviously, the conspiracy started about 2 to 3 years ago, now the results are coming. Some of the Air India counter staff too is involved in this conspiracy.

KINDLY SEND THIS TO AS MANY AS YOUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE WORLD AND ALSO REQUEST THEM TO CHECK THE PASSPORT AT THE CHECKING COUNTERS AND BEFORE LEAVING THE AIRPORT

[app_engine]

Lambretta,

I've read such stories earlier too but always doubted about such possibility as to how it can happen. My doubts because -

1. It doesn't take that much time at the exit point and it's almost impossible to "blind" the passenger and tear away passport page (unless he/she is so dumb to handover such an important doc and doesn't bother to verify what happened to it). At least normal curiosity should let them flip and see where the seal is placed, what it says etc.

2. Most passengers have a stop-over point between India and USA (possibly somewhere in EU or middle east). US people have their own officials at the gate there, for the aircraft whose final destination is USA. They verify visa (I've seen them even asking for H1 paper to be doubly sure) before they allow the passenger to board. It's unusual for a visa-less passenger to escape there and land in an US airport.

I don't say such cases are impossible, but anyone who is even 1% careful can avoid such fraudsters easily.

[app_engine]

Another sting operation - MLAs negotiating the amounts to vote for RS MP election :
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2...vote-note.html

[raagadevan]

Our pride and shame

http://www.thehindu.com/education/ar...?homepage=true

[app_engine]

-சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா
-சாதி இரண்டொழிய வேறில்லை (இட்டார் / இடாதோர்)
-யாவரும் கேளிர்
-ஒன்றே குலம்

[app_engine]

Shame on the judicial system again

Student Navarasu was murdered (and packing in a suitcase) in 1996 and the case is going on even now, after so many years

இப்படி இருந்தால் எவன் குற்றம் செய்ய அஞ்சுவான்?

[ilayapuyalvinodh_kumar]

Severe punishment for Indian for misbehaving with women [August 17]

A 23-year old Indian national, who molested five girls and women in May this year, has been sentenced to eight years of jail and ordered to be given 12 cane strokes by a local court.

According to the "The Straits Times", the accused, Thangavelu Tamilselvam, who is an immigrant construction worker in Singapore, pleaded guilty on three charges of molestation and two others considered during his sentencing.

In May this year, Tamilselvam had molested five women and girls, who wore shorts or skirts and aged between 10 and 30 years, for a period of 19 days. Deputy Public Prosecutor Kumaresan Gohulabalan told the court that he would wear a cap covering his top half of the face and prowled on a bicycle spotting his victims in the Woodlands housing estate, closer to his dormitory in the northern part of Singapore.

Tamilselvam would attack his victims in apartment lifts, hugging and kissing them. Tamilselvam faced a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and caning for outraging modesty and causing wrongful restraint in a lift. The punishment for outraging the modesty is a jail term of upto two years or fine or caning or any combined sentence. Caning is a widely used form of legal corporal punishment in Singapore.

http://www.behindindia.com/india-new...-17-08-10.html