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CHENNAI: It was a lesson learnt for this police officer, when one of his old pupils, a 19-year-old criminology student, schooled him on a topic that he taught her over an year and a half ago. V Dhana Shree, a final year student of BA Criminology & Police Administration, has sent a letter to a Sub Inspector of Police, attached to the Sevvapet police station in Tiruvallur district, pointing out his violation of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
Dhana Shree, had visited the Tiruvallur Taluk police station about 18 months ago as part of an internship programme. During that time, the same S-I had taught the batch about the CrPC, and the rights that the law provides women while being inquired.
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CHENNAI: A 23-year-old woman who allegedly killed a man to protect herself from an attempted rape was let go by the police on grounds that she had acted only in self-defence. The police said the woman, a mother of two, was struggling to free herself from the clutches of the deceased when she pushed him.
The man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, is believed to have hit his head against a rock and died on the spot. After preliminary inquiries pointed that the woman had only acted in her self-defence, Tiruvallur police invoked section 100 of the IPC (right of private defence) and released her on station-bail.