Lucknow: Visually impaired girl crushed to death by her university bus Ruksaar Jahan
LUCKNOW: In a tragic accident, the life of a talented 24-year-visually challenged girl student of Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University (DSMNRU) ended on Wednesday when she was run over by the bus of her own university allegedly due to negligence of the driver.Ruksaar Jahan, a resident of Gopalganj in Bihar, was a BA student and lived in the university’s hostel. She was rushed to King George’s Medical University’s trauma centre by her classmates and a university’s pharmacist, where she was declared brought dead. The incident sent a wave of anger and sorrow in the campus. Scores of students took to streets and blocked the road outside the campus demanding justice for Jahan. Many among them, who were friends and classmates of Jahan, were in tears. ...................................................... District officials pacifying students after the accident ................................ Heavy police were rushed to the spot and senior officers tried to pacify students. Later, the university lodged an FIR against the driver and announced to form a committee to probe the matter.An inconsolable Ananya (name changed), Jahan’s classmate and friend, who is speech and hearing impaired, narrated the entire incident through sign language before media persons. Ananya said that she and Jahan were waiting near the university’s limb centre to board the university bus for the main campus to submit their scholarship forms.The bus was parked at some distance and all of sudden the driver made it turn backward at high speed, crushing Jahan under the wheels, she added while requesting not to be named out of fear of disciplinary action.“Jahan was an intelligent student who had scored over 80 % in class 10 and 70 % in class 12. Her disability was never an obstacle, even in the first semester in the university where she performed well in all three subjects - Hindi, history and political science – of her course,” said a senior faculty member, who taught Jahan.She was among four siblings in the family and her father is a shopkeeper, she added.(With inputs from Himanshu Sing https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/lucknow-visually-impaired-girl-crushed-to-death-by-her-university-bus/articleshow/87773747.cms -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CALLUjUacR1fQPJigwMTXtKxhWrEymE8OMybKmwdjY_%3DdsW45gA%40mail.gmail.com.
