6-yr-old girl burnt alive by mother’s lover

A six-year-old girl, Bhavani, was burnt alive on Tuesday morning by her mother’s drunk lover at Jeedimetla.

Vijay, lover of the the girl’s mother Shobha, wrapped Bhavani in a mattress, doused it in kerosene and set it alight. The poor girl managed to extricate herself and ran out crying for help. Locals rushed her to the hospital but she succumbed to her burns.

Shobha leaves their Mahadevpur Colony house in Gajula Ramaram of Jeedimetla daily at 6 am and was not at home when the incident took place.

Jeedimetla Inspector of Police A. Sanjeeva Rao said, “Her father Channaiah passed away a few years ago and her mother was having an affair with the accused identified as Vijay, a 28-year-old unemployed. He used to visit Shobha often. We are yet to arrest Vijay and Shobha too is yet to come to us. Locals say that she comes back home at around 10 pm.”

He was drunk and in a semi-conscious state and was not able to say why he did the ghastly act.

PCB pulls up 97 hospitals over waste rules

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed 97 healthcare establishments with over 100-beds capacity to submit bank guarantee within a week, assuring that they would conform to Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules. Located in Hyderabad, Warangal, Ranga Reddy and Karimnagar districts, these hospitals were found violating rules.

The directive was given during a hearing conducted by APPCB member-secretary Dana Kishore along with the Task Force Committee here on Saturday to review the compliance of these establishments with the Andhra Pradesh Environment Protection Act. Representatives of around 100 hospitals attended the meeting. The Pollution Control Board also asked hospitals operating without valid authorisations to apply for them within a week. Those operating without Consent for Operation, as required under the Water Act, were directed to apply within 15 days.