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RANCHI: Come July 15 and there would be a queue of a different kind a line of people who have extra smart gadgets in front of police stations across the state. The people are expected to donate their extra gadgets to create a bank for distribution to needy students for their online studies.
The bank is a brainchild of state DGP Niraj Sinha who said he decided to start it after he was moved by the suicide of a 19-year-old bright student of mathematics honours at Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi, at her home in Telangana for the want of a laptop to continue her studies during the lockdown and the selling of mangoes by a 12-year-old Jamshedpur girl on the roadside to buy a smartphone.
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Nine arrested over mob lynching in eastern India
The second such incident in Jharkhand state s capital in one week causes alarm
Protesters rally in New Delhi in April 2019 to condemn a mob lynching in Jharkhand. (Photo: Bijay Kumar Minj)
Police in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have arrested nine people in connection with the mob lynching of a 26-year-old Muslim man on the outskirts of Ranchi.
According to media reports, this was the second such incident in the state capital in one week. Earlier, a 22-year-old man was beaten in the Upper Bazar area on suspicion of theft and later died.
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