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Indian Express
6 days ago
- Indian Express
Surat: Woman dies during questioning in cyber fraud case
A 56-year-old woman from Surat died while she was being questioned by Maharashtra's Nasik Cyber Cell in connection with a case of cyber fraud. Police said that an amount of Rs 6 lakh was credited in the bank account of the woman, identified as Meenaben Mohanbhai Rathod, around seven months ago and immediately withdrawn. They said that her blood pressure had dropped during the questioning session, adding that the reason behind her death was not known yet. Amroli police registered an accidental death report and will record statements of Nasik Cyber Cell officials soon. A Nasik Cyber Cell team comprising senior police inspector Shubhash Dhawale and two other officials had arrived in Surat on Sunday and took help from Amroli police and reached Meenaben's house at Barodi Street in Chhaprabhata area. She was later told to show up at Amroli police station for questioning. In the afternoon, Meenaben, accompanied by her son Ravi Rathod, reached the police station. During questioning, there was a power cut, after which the officials took her outside and sat in an open garden inside the campus. While the questioning was on, she allegedly found it difficult to breathe and could not answer questions and was scared. After her condition deteriorated, she was allowed to leave and was rushed to Surat Municipal Corporation-run SMIMER hospital where she was declared dead. The grieving family has blamed the Nasik Cyber Cell officials for the tragedy. 'My mother was facing breathing issues in the scorching heat. I requested Nasik (Cyber Cell) officials thrice to let her to go so that she be treated, but they continued questioning her. She was scared and was shivering. Her blood pressure dropped. The officials knew where we lived. I told them to allow her to come for the interrogation some other time, but they refused and I lost my mother,' Meenaben's son Ravi told The Indian Express. Meenaben lived with her husband Mahesh Rathod, son and daughter-in-law. Meenaben and her daughter-in-law worked as house helps. Mahesh is unemployed and ill, while Ravi, who met with an accident five months ago, was not working too, said Amroli police. Nasik Cyber Cell's Dhawale said, 'We were probing a cyber fraud case registered around three months ago. There were many bank accounts used in the commission of the crime. We have arrested three persons so far and the investigation is still on. We found that some amount of money had been credited in Meenaben Rathod's bank account, after which we reached Surat. During interrogation, Meenaben said she had shared her bank account details with some one else and allowed the person to use it.' Amroli police inspector D K Patel said, 'We have registered an accidental death report in Meenaben's case. We will record statements of all the three officials of the Nasik Cyber Cell. We will decide our future course of action based on their statements.'
Indian Express
13-05-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
Gujarat: Abortion plea of woman accused of kidnapping student gets court nod
A special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court in Surat on Tuesday granted the permission to terminate a 22-week-old pregnancy of a 23-year-old female teacher days after police arrested her and rescued her 13-year-old student after intercepting them in a bus at Shamlaji on Gujarat-Rajasthan border. The teacher has been charged under BNS Act Sections 137(2) (Kidnapping), 127(3) (Punishment for wrongful confinement). The medical termination of pregnancy of the accused woman will be done at Surat Municipal Corporation-run SMIMER hospital in a week, and the foetus should be preserved for a DNA test, the order stated. The woman had on Friday moved the special POCSO court, seeking permission for abortion under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. Based on the application, the court instructed Punagam police to seek expert advice from the medical fraternity. Police took her to SMIMER hospital for a medical examination, after which the hospital authorities submitted a report to police, stating that 'the termination of pregnancy is advised considering the risk factor'. Police submitted the report to the court on Tuesday. The report, signed by professor Dr Archish Desai, Assistant professor Dr Sonam Parikh and Senior Resident Dr Thumar, stated, 'As the accused is unmarried and 23 years old, continuation of pregnancy may be harmful for her psychologically and socially. According to the MTP Act, Medical Termination of Pregnancy can be done up to 24 weeks of gestation, and the accused wants termination of pregnancy at present. The risk of complications of Second Trimester Medical Termination of Pregnancy includes incomplete abortion, retained products of conception, bleeding, infection, uterine rupture, failure of termination of pregnancy and may need surgical intervention (hysterotomy) and psychological complications. The mortality (death) risk is 0.6/100000. Considering the risk-benefit ratio, termination of pregnancy is advised from our side with an explanation of the risks. Kindly permit Termination of Pregnancy.' The teacher and the student had gone missing on April 25 and were last seen in the CCTV footage at Surat Railway Station. Police sources said the teacher had been offering tuition to the student for the last few years. On April 26, the boy's father had lodged a complaint of kidnapping against the teacher following which police had started a probe in the matter. POCSO invoked Later, police received information that the teacher and the student were returning to Gujarat in a private luxury bus from Jaipur, Rajasthan. A team of Surat police intercepted the bus and brought the teacher and the boy back to the city. After primary interrogation, police said they learnt that the woman had allegedly confessed to establishing physical relations with the boy following which POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act's Sections 8, 4 and 12 were added in the existing kidnapping complaint against the teacher. After the police remand, the accused teacher was sent to judicial custody at Surat Central Jail. The court order on Tuesday stated: 'The Medical Superintendent of SMIMER Hospital, Surat, is directed to conduct medical termination of pregnancy of the accused girl who has been charged with the offence punishable under section BNS Act, 137(2), 127(3) and POCSO Act sections. 4, 6, 8 and 12 with two (or more than that) qualified surgeons, including a gynaecologist and an obstetrician, in the presence of a qualified physician, with due care and precaution, to avoid any likelihood of untoward harm to the physical or mental health of the accused girl after carrying out a necessary medical check-up forthwith. The foetus should be preserved to enable the investigating agency to send it for a DNA test. The accused girl should be discharged from the hospital after termination of pregnancy only, if she is found to be medically fit. The Medical Superintendent of SMIMER Hospital, Surat should submit report with regards to the termination of pregnancy to this court within a week. The Investigating Officer should take custody of the accused and send her to jail after she is discharged from the hospital.' The court also observed, 'The continuance of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury on physical and mental health, or there is a substantial risk that if the child were born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities…'
