Indore Apr 21 PTI The authorities in Madhya Pradeshs Indore district rescued two minor sisters who were allegedly tortured by their father and were being forced to get married an official said on Thursday A flying squad of the women and child development department was tipped off about the preparations of the wedding of the sisters aged 15 and 17 years following which the administration intervened in-charge official Mahendra Pathak said The girls who are residents of Devguradia area were supposed to marry two youths from neighbouring Dewas district he said When the squad asked the girls family to produce their age proof their father started making excuses and claimed that the certificates were kept in his ancestral home in a village far away the official said Their birth records were later brought in from their school and they revealed that the girls were 17 and 15 years old Pathak said As per the law of the land the marriageable age for boys is 21 while for girls it is 18 People violating the rule have to undergo two years of rigorous imprisonment or pay Rs 1 lakh fine or both under The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 The girls have alleged that their father tortured them in an inebriated state every now and then and even tried to throw them from the top floor of their house Pathak said The sisters have been shifted to an Aashray Sthal for the time being he added PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU

Indore Oct 21 PTI A 19-year-old student of IIT Kharagpur allegedly committed suicide at his home in Madhya Pradeshs Indore city police said on Thursday The body of Sarthak Vijayvat was found hanging in the balcony of his residence in Scheme 78 area on Wednesday an additional superintendent of police ASP said The police recovered a suicide note from the scene in which the victim had allegedly written I quit with details about his studies and family expressing disappointment the official said Sarthak had been attending virtual lectures from his home he said adding that the deceaseds father Jayant Vijayvat is posted in the Narmada Valley Development Authority NVDA as an additional director We are examining the letter Prima facie it appears that Sarthak was suffering from depression because of which he took such an extreme step Further investigations are on the official added PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU

Indore Sep 24 PTI At least 30 persons have tested positive for coronavirus in Mhow cantonment area in Madhya Pradeshs Indore district in the last 24 hours a health official said on Friday While the infected persons are asymptomatic they have been isolated and are being treated at the Mhow military hospital nodal officer for the prevention of COVID-19 Dr Amit Malakar said The health authorities were alerted after as many as 30 cases emerged from the area in 24 hours the official said Without revealing much about the patients Malakar said the infected persons have taken both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and had travelled to Mhow from different parts of the country A total of 32 fresh cases of COVID-19 were detected in Indore district in the last 24 hours of which 30 were from Mhow cantonment area alone Indore was once the worst affected district in the state during the COVID-19 pandemic As per a health bulletin the district has recorded 153140 COVID-19 cases so far including 1391 casualties PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU

Indore Sep 22 PTI The police have busted a racket involved in betting on IPL matches and arrested four persons in Madhya Pradeshs Indore city an official said on Wednesday Acting on a tip-off the police raided an apartment in Lasudia area on Tuesday night and nabbed four persons additional superintendent of police ASP crime branch Guruprasad Parashar said People from Indore and nearby areas were found indulging in online betting through the accused Pankaj Rajput 25 Vishal Gupta 27 Piyush Mukut 25 and Kapil Choudhary 31 the official said The accused are linked to another punter Rohit Baghel and the police are on the lookout for him he said adding that further probe is underway PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU

Indore Aug 25 PTI The genome sequencing of samples collected from two COVID-19 patients who have since recovered has revealed that they had been infected with the Delta plus variant a health official from Madhya Pradeshs Indore city said on Wednesday The samples collected from a 35-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man were sent to the Delhi-based National Center for Disease Control in July and the report had arrived recently said Dr Amit Malakar nodal officer for prevention of COVID-19 These were the first Delta plus cases reported in the district which had earlier seen cases of Delta variant the official said adding that both patients have recovered from the infection and have been vaccinated As a precautionary measure the health department has collected the samples of 88 persons who came in contact with the duo and sent them for COVID-19 testing According to official figures Indore has recorded 153046 COVID-19 cases so far of which 1391 patients have died of the infection PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU