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Sharif Rahman Khan BHOPAL: Sharif Rahman Khan, a 32-year-old software engineer from Bhopal, was shot dead in the US last Wednesday by a local resident who allegedly had a “romantic fixation” with a girl who was Sharif ’s friend, say local media reports. A section of the media had raised concerns that it was a ‘hate crime’. Sharif ’s family has expressed deep reservations about these media reports. “My younger brother has been shot dead in St. Louis (Missouri). That’s all I know. I had called the University City police for details, but they refused to share any information unless I showed up there. They say it’s their SOP. None of Sharif’s colleagues have told us anything close to what’s being reported in the media,” Sharif’s elder brother Mukeem told TOI. Sharif ’s mother and brother live in Bhopal’s Subash Nagar area. They have decided to have his last rites performed in the US considering the Covid-19 situation in both countries. India ....
The accused in police custody in MP’s Morena district. BHOPAL: A Class XII pass, pretending to be an ‘MBBS doctor pursuing MD’, was arrested while ‘examining’ patients in the gynaecology ward of Morena district hospital on Monday. The accused, 30-year-old Sanjay Mahor, was arrested once earlier from Ambah civil hospital in the same district in December 2019 after he had performed postmortems, even prepared reports of medico legal cases, and examined hundreds of patients over a six-month period. He was given bail by high court two weeks ago, but promptly went back to what he knows best, this time 35km away in the district HQ. ....
Sheetal Wagmare, a young constable with nursing skills BHOPAL: A young constable with nursing skills helped deliver a baby at a rural police station in MP’s Chhindwara district on Wednesday when a woman who had come with a complaint of sexual exploitation suddenly developed labour contractions. Sheetal Wagmare switched from cop to midwife in a flash. Thanks to her, mother and the newborn daughter survived and are in hospital. “I had undergone a nursing course before joining police. When she went into labour, I tried my best to help her deliver the baby with the available resources,” said Sheetal, who joined the force in 2017. ....
At several places in Madhya Pradesh, petrol retailed at a price higher than Rs 100 a litre BHOPAL: Petrol prices in Madhya Pradesh are the highest in India, as per the nationwide statistics released by the Petrol Pump Owners Association of MP on Sunday. The average price of petrol in MP on February 26 was Rs 98.96 highest in the country. The average price of fuel in some neighbouring states has not even touched the Rs 90-mark. For example, in Uttar Pradesh petrol was sold at an average of Rs 89.13 per litre, in Chhattisgarh the price was Rs 89.39, in Gujarat it was Rs88.88, said the president of the association, Ajay Singh. Petrol was sold at Rs76.54 in the Andamans. ....
Representative image BHOPAL: A 19-year-old girl was abducted and gang-raped for two days by four persons including a schoolteacher and local BJP leader in Shahdol, said police on Sunday. She is in critical condition. “After raping her, the accused, who were identified as BJP Jaitpur mandal president Vijay Tripathi, teacher Rajesh Shukla, Munna Singh and Monu Maharaj, threw the girl off a car near her house on Saturday night,” said Shahdol SP Awadesh Goswami. The girl was taken to a hospital in Jaitpur, from where she was referred to Shahdol district hospital, about 60km away, on Sunday afternoon where her condition is stated to be critical. ....