Four army officers named in FIR over brigadierâs suicide
One of them had filed a sexual harassment complaint against the brigadier.
24 Apr, 2021
Four army officers posted at the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune have been booked for abeting the suicide of a brigadier. An FIR filed by his son at the Government Railway Police Station in the city names Brigadier AK Shrivastava, Lt Colonel Kushagra Patel, Major Nilesh Patel, and a female major who had accused the brigadier of sexual harassment.
Brigadier Anant Naik, 57, jumped in front of a train at the Pune railway station on April 18. Naik, who was from Bhubaneswar in Odisha, headed the collegeâs administration department. Heâd gone to the railway station in his army vehicle, the police said, telling his driver he had some work at the Movement Control Office, located inside the station.
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March brought a surprise for some 650 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas across the country. A proposal has been floated to convert some JNVs into Sainik Schools in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Considering this proposal, ‘establishing a new school’ can now also mean restructuring a pre-existing one. There is a high possibility that more JNVs may be converted into Sainik Schools as the Union budget of 2021 mentioned that the government aims to establish 100 new Sainik Schools.
This proposal has been met with opposition on grounds such as a fee hike and the exclusion of students from rural areas. However, apart from these well-placed concerns, there is a bigger reason that warrants our attention in this matter. The ignorance of the government in appreciating the fundamental difference in the objectives and purposes behind establishing these two different types of schools can lead to a major setback for students from rural India.
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PUNE: A 58-year-old Brigadier-rank Army officer allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a moving train at the Pune railway station on Sunday, railway police said.
The deceased, a male officer, was currently serving at the city-based Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), they said. The victim came to the railway station with his driver. Leaving the driver outside, he went to platform number 3 and jumped before the Udyan Express around 12.15 pm and died, Superintendent of Police (GRP), Sadanand Wayse-Patil, said.
No suicide note was recovered from him, he said. As per the CCTV footage, the Army officer was seen lingering on platform 3 and even tried to jump before the Chennai Express, but could not succeed, he said. A spokesperson of the Army s Southern Command issued a brief statement, which said that the information about the death of an Army person at the Pune railway station was reported by the railway police to the d