Is this the price parents will henceforth have to pay to educate their children with effect from today onwards.......
Tirupur (Tamil Nadu) police sleuths late on Wednesday evening booked cases against a 25 year old female resident of the city's Avinashi area under sections 302 (murder) and 309 (attempt to commit suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).......
According to highly placed police sources; the vexed; distressed and distraught accused who was unable to pay the 40,000 rupees demanded by her 8 year old daughter's school's management in order to admit her to class III laced both her as well as her beloved daughter's soft drinks with pesticide on the fateful Tuesday evening and subsequently consumed the same in tandem with her unsuspecting and trusting daughter.........
Neighbours and well wishers who happened to see Yamuna Devi (the mother) as well as Joshika (the now deceased daughter) convulsed and wracked by paroxsyms of seemingly unbearable pain through a window broke down the front door of the nondescript dwelling inhabited by the duo and rushed them to the city's government hospital where the doctors on duty pronounced Joshika brought dead on arrival and admitted Yamuna Devi to the hospital's Intensive Care Unit in a critical condition.........
Family sources duly confirmed the indisputable fact that Yamuna Devi used to run a beauty parlour but was woefully unable to raise the sum of money demanded by the management of the textile city's Viveka Kids School management in order to admit her to class 3 owing to her intermittent and sporadic income from her pride and joy (beauty parlour)...........
Her husband and Joshika's father one Boopathy 30 who was gainfully employed as a tailor in a local hosiery manufacturing unit had migrated to Malaysia in search of greener pastures a little over three years ago after borrowing lakhs of rupees from family and friends.........
Though employed as a tailor in a garment manufacturing unit in his adopted homeland; the money repatriated by Boopathy to his better half who resided in an one room tenantment with her daughter barely sufficed to pay off the accumulated loans and hence left the duo to largely fend for themselves and lead a pitiful hand to mouth existence almost always..........
The exorbitant sum demanded by the afore mentioned school management proved to be the proverbial last straw in Yamuna Devi's case and she resorted to this desperate life threatening measure as she had reached the end of her tether and buckled under the pressures being exerted on her by the vagaries of life...........
As things stand at the present moment; the city's police sleuths are awaiting the arrival of Boopathy who is slated to arrive in the city on the night of June 9;2016 so that they can duly proceed with the post mortem of Joshika's mortal remains before handing them over to the grieving and disconsolate father for the performance of the last rites........
As for Yamuna Devi she is looking forward to a life sentence in the district's Central Jail once she recovers from her ordeal as a consequence of her seemingly insane measures that ended up claiming the budding life of the apple of her eye and her struggling for life in an ICU unit where the doctors attending on her are only willing to say something concrete about her rather bleak chances of survival only after the next 48 hours or so as the same will prove to be more than crucial in her case........
One wonders who is the "real" culprit in this case; a callous; disparaging and uncaring educational system that places a premium on moolah over merit and other humanitarian considerations or then a distraught; distressed; disconsolate and increasingly deranged mother who found herself incapable of educating her beloved daughter in the manner she envisaged owing to a paucity of funds and faced with an uncompromising and unstinting school management who wanted their proverbial pound of flesh notwithstanding the prospective cause and effects on the pupil and her immediate family.........
Tirupur (Tamil Nadu) police sleuths late on Wednesday evening booked cases against a 25 year old female resident of the city's Avinashi area under sections 302 (murder) and 309 (attempt to commit suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).......
According to highly placed police sources; the vexed; distressed and distraught accused who was unable to pay the 40,000 rupees demanded by her 8 year old daughter's school's management in order to admit her to class III laced both her as well as her beloved daughter's soft drinks with pesticide on the fateful Tuesday evening and subsequently consumed the same in tandem with her unsuspecting and trusting daughter.........
Neighbours and well wishers who happened to see Yamuna Devi (the mother) as well as Joshika (the now deceased daughter) convulsed and wracked by paroxsyms of seemingly unbearable pain through a window broke down the front door of the nondescript dwelling inhabited by the duo and rushed them to the city's government hospital where the doctors on duty pronounced Joshika brought dead on arrival and admitted Yamuna Devi to the hospital's Intensive Care Unit in a critical condition.........
Family sources duly confirmed the indisputable fact that Yamuna Devi used to run a beauty parlour but was woefully unable to raise the sum of money demanded by the management of the textile city's Viveka Kids School management in order to admit her to class 3 owing to her intermittent and sporadic income from her pride and joy (beauty parlour)...........
Her husband and Joshika's father one Boopathy 30 who was gainfully employed as a tailor in a local hosiery manufacturing unit had migrated to Malaysia in search of greener pastures a little over three years ago after borrowing lakhs of rupees from family and friends.........
Though employed as a tailor in a garment manufacturing unit in his adopted homeland; the money repatriated by Boopathy to his better half who resided in an one room tenantment with her daughter barely sufficed to pay off the accumulated loans and hence left the duo to largely fend for themselves and lead a pitiful hand to mouth existence almost always..........
The exorbitant sum demanded by the afore mentioned school management proved to be the proverbial last straw in Yamuna Devi's case and she resorted to this desperate life threatening measure as she had reached the end of her tether and buckled under the pressures being exerted on her by the vagaries of life...........
As things stand at the present moment; the city's police sleuths are awaiting the arrival of Boopathy who is slated to arrive in the city on the night of June 9;2016 so that they can duly proceed with the post mortem of Joshika's mortal remains before handing them over to the grieving and disconsolate father for the performance of the last rites........
As for Yamuna Devi she is looking forward to a life sentence in the district's Central Jail once she recovers from her ordeal as a consequence of her seemingly insane measures that ended up claiming the budding life of the apple of her eye and her struggling for life in an ICU unit where the doctors attending on her are only willing to say something concrete about her rather bleak chances of survival only after the next 48 hours or so as the same will prove to be more than crucial in her case........
One wonders who is the "real" culprit in this case; a callous; disparaging and uncaring educational system that places a premium on moolah over merit and other humanitarian considerations or then a distraught; distressed; disconsolate and increasingly deranged mother who found herself incapable of educating her beloved daughter in the manner she envisaged owing to a paucity of funds and faced with an uncompromising and unstinting school management who wanted their proverbial pound of flesh notwithstanding the prospective cause and effects on the pupil and her immediate family.........
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