2 Kerala school kids held for classroom gang rape.Byline: Ashraf Padanna THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police investigating the suicide pact Noun 1. suicide pact - an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time; "the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact" of three schoolgirls in the southern Indian state of Kerala have arrested two of their male classmates Classmates can refer to either:
tr.v. a·bet·ted, a·bet·ting, a·bets 1. To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on. 2. suicide. Police said the two Class 12 students, Shahnavas and Saufer of Vocational Higher Secondary School in Ambalappuzha in central Kerala, had admitted to having sexually exploited the girls during a polygraph An instrument used to measure physiological responses in humans when they are questioned in order to determine if their answers are truthful. Also known as a "lie detector," the polygraph has a controversial history in U.S. law. test here recently. Both students hailing from well-to-do middleclass families are aged 19. The lie detection test was conducted after an autopsy report had earlier confirmed that the deceased Julie Varghese, Anila Babu ba·bu also ba·boo n. pl. ba·bus also ba·boos 1. Used as a Hindi courtesy title for a man, equivalent to Mr. 2. a. A Hindu clerk who is literate in English. b. and Manju, all aged 17, had had sexual intercourse sexual intercourse or coitus or copulation Act in which the male reproductive organ enters the female reproductive tract (see reproductive system). . The suicide note and the entries in their personal diaries also had references to "those guys" who captured their "nasty images" on their mobile gadgets. Police believe they took the extreme step because the boys blackmailed them to continue exploitation. The girls, all from lower middleclass families, were found in their classroom dead after consuming poison on Nov. 17 in their school uniform. Police initially wrote it off as a case of suicide under emotional stress from failed love and poor academic performance. They later reopened the case owing to public pressure. Based on the autopsy report and the polygraph test the special investigation team headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police P. Rajagopal arrested the students Wednesday evening. Two other classmates, who were subjected to the lie detection test, were let off. Copyright: Arab News 2009 All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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