The dead body of a 14 year old Christian boy was found on the railway track today near All Saints College, Thiruvanandapuram, the capital city of Kerala. He was a tenth standard student of St Josephs Higher Secondary School.
 The boy identified as Nithin, was the only son of Napolean and Nirmala, residing behind G V Raja School. It was the local people who found the body today morning. |
| A fisherman has saved a seven-year-old girl whose father threw her in the river because he could not pay the steep expenses necessary to treat her. Sarita has suffered from renal failure for three years and in recent weeks, she had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Mumbai. Her father, Bakheru Sonkar, a resident of the village of Devkali, district of Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh), is a vegetable seller and he cannot afford to pay for the long treatment, which according to police would cost at least 300,000 rupees. On 9 July, he accompanied his daughter to Mumbai, but he has been accused to pushing her into the river when they returned.
Fishermen rescued Sarita after they heard cries of “Papa, papa…help me.” The child was admitted to a local hospital after being rescued. The father disappeared and police are searching for him. Sarita has returned home. Her mother is at a loss to explain what her husband has done, especially after he had been taking his daughter for treatment for five months. |