The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has taken cognizance of two incidents in Sagar, first one of an attempt at self-immolation by a woman in front of police station and the second, the death of a student due to falling of bathroom wall. The Commission has asked the Sagar Superintendent of Police (SP) to submit detailed report of the incidence of attempt to self-immolate and to the Sagar Collector and District Education Officer (DEO) over the incidence of death of student.
Notably, Naresh Bai Bansal a resident of Shankargarh who reached the Padmakar Nagar Police Station in Sagar to lodge complaint of harassment by her neighbors took the suicidal step as her complaint was not written, dejected over this she set herself on fire in front of the police station, the people around her tried to douse the fire and took her to the hospital where her condition is said to be serious.
The Commission taking cognizance of the issue asked the SP Sagar to submit detailed report of the case before it as the victim woman has mentioned in her report that she took the extreme step because the on duty staff in police station did not write her complaint.
While, in the case of death of class first student Adarsh Singh Dangi of government primary school of village Tikariya in Devri Kala Tehsil of Sagar district the Commission has asked the Sagar Collector and DEO to submit detailed report of the case.
Adarsh went to toilet where the wall of toilet fell suddenly and he got buried under it. On hearing his cries he was pulled out and taken to the Community Health Centre – Devri from where he was referred to Narsinghpur and later to Jabalpur where he died during treatment.