Chandigarh: The Punjab government said on Sunday it will bear the expenses of airlifting an injured Burundian student to Delhi for his onward journey home. The young man is in coma since he was assaulted in the state in April.
A spokesman of the Punjab chief minister's office said the state would arrange and pay for taking Yannick Nihangaza to New Delhi in an air-ambulance.
He said on the request of the student's father, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had also agreed to pay the business class airfare for Yannick and his father to travel to a hospital in Rwanada in Africa.
Yannick, who was pursuing a B.Sc. in computers at Lovely Professional University near Jalandhar, was attacked by some young men April 21 in Jalandhar after an argument outside a liquor shop, 150 km from here....
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05:30 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Jalandhar: A local court today sent Jaswant Singh, an accused in African student assault case, to 14-day judicial custody. Police have produced Jaswant Singh alias Bantu before court after completion of his two-day police remand from where the court has sent him to 14 days judicial custody, sources said. Another accuse Harsh Gosain, who has surrendered before a court on Wednesday evening, will be produced on Monday. "We have arrested...
12:46 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Police on Tuesday arrested the son of a cooperative mill Managing Director and issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against an accused in the case of attack on Burundi student Yannick Nihangaza over two months ago. "We have made a fresh arrest. The accused Amarbir Bajwa is charged with beating up Yannick and he has been arrested," Additional DCP Jalandhar, Navjot Mahal, said. He said Bajwa, whose father...
10:30 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Jalandhar Police on Tuesday said that they had arrested four of the accused in the Burundi boy attack case that took place in April this year. While three of the accused were on the run, one had fled to Australia, said Additional DCP (Headquarters) Navjot S Mahal. A lookout notice has been issued against the one who fled to Australia, he said. "Police investigations are on," he...
10:56 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Patiala: Burundi student Yannick Nihangazas family has refused to shift him to Chandigarhs Post Graduate Institute (PGI) until the team of doctors from their Embassy recommends it. Yannicks father Nestor Ntibateganya told media here on Monday at Columbia Asia Hospital that they were not satisfied with the working of the authorities in dealing with the case. "We have been pressurised by local authorities to shift my son to PGI but...
07:27 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The fourth accused in the Burundi student attack case was arrested in Punjab on Monday, Navjot S Mahal, Additional DCP, said. Amandeep Singh was arrested by the Jalandhar Police on Monday afternoon. Yannick, a student of B Sc (Computers) at a private university near Jalandhar was brutally beaten up outside his rented accommodation in Dashmesh Nagar on the night of April 21, while he was celebrating the birthday...
02:43 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Romi Uppal, son of a senior police officer and a key accused in the case of attack on Burundi student Yannick Nihangaza, has been sent to two days in police remand. He is the son of an SP rank officer from Nawanshahr. With Romi's arrest, the total number of persons arrested so far in the attack on Yannick, who slipped into coma after the assault, has gone up...
04:39 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Patiala: Romi Uppal, son of a senior police officer and a key accused in the case of attack on Burundi student Yannick Nihangaza, on Saturday surrendered before police. Jalandhar DCP Sarabjit Singh said Romi had surrendered himself. With Romi's arrest, the total number of persons arrested so far in the attack on Yannick, who slipped into coma after the assault, has gone up to three. Earlier, two accused, Sahil Deep...
10:46 PM, Jul 07, 2012
A 23-year-old Burundi national studying in Punjab is in coma after being brutally beaten in April this year. ...
03:23 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Burundian student in coma for three months now in Jalandhar. Supreme Court gives a clean chit to Maywati in DA case. ...
11:55 PM, Jul 06, 2012
A Burundian student is in a coma for three months now in Jalandhar and his father is crying for justice. ...
11:47 PM, Jul 06, 2012
The father of the African student, who is in come for three months, says these are hard times for him and his family. ...
11:05 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Jalandhar/New Delhi: Beaten mercilessly in Punjab, an African student has been lying in coma for three months. The incident has put a question mark on India's track record of dealing with African students. However, reacting to the incident, the envoy of Burundi has said that it is a criminal case and not a racist attack. Yannik, a 23-year-old boy from Burundi was a student of the Lovely University in Punjab....
06:39 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Jalandhar: A Burundi national and a student of Punjab's Lovely University was reportedly beaten and left for dead in Jalandhar in April this year. The 23-year-old, Yannick Nihangaza is currently in coma. The boy was allegedly pelted with stones and beaten up on April 22. Two people have been arrested in the case. His father has now written an emotional appeal to India asking that he be repatriated to Burundi....
03:49 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Burundi: Armed men from Congo burst into a pub in the central African nation of Burundi and killed 36 people, an official said on Monday. One wounded man said an attacker yelled, "Make sure there's no survivors." Burundi, a tiny nation still reeling from a civil war that killed more than 250,000 people, is awash in weapons but attacks like the one on Sunday night are rare. Still, the region...
03:26 AM, Sep 20, 2011
