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WANT TO ADMIT YOUR CHILD TO FIRST YEAR JUNIOR COLLEGE? BE PREPARED TO SHELL OUT A HUGE SUM FOR THE SEAT By Yatin Ingle
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unior colleges in the city seem to be taking advantage of the fact that there are 75,000 students who were not able to book seats in the online admission process. They are offering seats in the offline process in exchange for tidy donations. On Tuesday, the State Education Department declared the third and final list for the First Year Junior College (FYJC) online admissions. However, thousands of students were shocked to find that they weren't allotted seats in any of the three lists. After that, the state board released the vacant seats to the colleges to be filled through the offline admissions process. When students and parents started enrolling
through the offline admissions, college management directly stated that the offline seats could only be booked against a donation, with rates varying from a minimum of Rs 15,000 in a modest suburban college, to more than a lakh at the better colleges across town. A frustrated parent who had visited a college in Dombivli said, “When we asked for the admission form, we
were told that we would have to pay a donation of Rs 14,000. This is unfair. Our children have worked hard to get the marks and even then we have to pay donations? The education department should look into this and punish the colleges.” This year, around 1,60,947 students had applied for the online FYJC admissions. In all, 88,935 seats have been allotted in the online admission process while 75,000 seats are now available for the offline admission process. The ADC spoke to N B Chavan, deputy education director, who said. “Parents should step ahead and complain to the department if such activities are taking place. The department will take serious actions against these colleges.”
UNNATURAL SEX. SO WHAT? POLICE FILE NC INSTEAD OF FIR IN SEXUAL ABUSE CASE DESPITE MEDICAL REPORT CONFIRMING RAPE OF 14-YEAR-OLD BOY
By Zuber Ansari
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ven though the city has many programmes and departments in place to make women and children feel safe from criminals, another incident of police negligence has come to light. Three youth allegedly performed unnatural sex on a 14-year-old boy, but when the victim's mother went to file an FIR armed with the medical report, the on-duty officer at the Tilak Nagar police station agreed to register only a non-cognisable (NC) report. The accused trio and the victim are residents of the same locality in Chembur. On the day of the incident, the prime accused in the case took the victim to his grand-
mother's residence, and later summoned two of his friends. After consuming alcohol, they molested the boy and forced themselves on him. After the incident, when the victim reached his residence, he didn't say anything
to his mother. But after his bleeding did not stop for three days, he asked his mother to take him to a doctor. A private doctor then referred him to Sanjivani Hospital. After the medical examination at the hospital, a doctor confirmed that the boy had been violated and handed over the medical report which detailed the injuries. The mother then questioned her son, who narrated the whole incident to her. He told her that when he was on his way to purchase her medicines he met the prime accused, Vishal Londhe, who accompanied him to the medical store, and then took him to his grandmother's residence Continued on pg 8 «