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The child after returning home on Thursday from her school - G D Birla Centre for Education - kept on crying and complained of severe pain. Her mother spotted blood stains on her clothes, he said. The girl told her mother that the physical training teacher had taken her to the washroom but could not narrate what happened thereafter.
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the Hazratganj Police Station to check the general preparedness.
Adityanath also asked the the staff to make the atmosphere in the building healthy and clean by avoiding the use plastic.
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The girl had suffered severe injuries on her neck, face, head and private parts in the incident and is undergoing treatment in Indore.
Hopping from one controversy to another, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam is facing serious allegations over irregularities in sale of tickets for paid rituals and 'missing' antique jewelry, offered to Lord Venkateshwara, the presiding deity of the famous temple.
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"The clean-up operations are continuing," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
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Fearing violent response from the mob present outside the Police Club and court complex, several rings of security were thrown around Islam who was seen wearing a helmet. Before producing him in the court, he was interrogated by top officials of the Special Investigation Team probing the case.
Refusing to produce the accused Ameerul Islam before media, Sandhya said police wanted to build a strong case against him.
Locals drove Das to a hospital in nearby Mirpur Mathelo where he was treated for his wounds.
An eight-year-old girl, who was sleeping outside her hut, was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in outer Delhi's Kirari area, police said on Tuesday.
Chanda also questioned the delay of 26 hours in filing the first information report in the case and the failures of police to provide them a post-mortem report of Aditya.
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