An 85-year-old man met a tragic end after his room caught fire from a room heater installed inside a house in Khaga locality of Fatehpur district in the wee hours of Friday.
According to reports, 85-year-old Vrindavan Gupta of GT Road Canal track in the city was sleeping inside the room on Thursday night after switching on a room heater to avoid cold. The room caught fire due to a short circuit in the heater early in the morning on Friday. Other members of the family were sleeping in other rooms.
Seeing smoke rising from the old man's room, when the family members ran towards the room, they saw flames in the room. They called to enquire about the well-being of the old man but got no reply. The relatives broke the door and entered the room and found the old man trapped in fire. They tried to extinguish the fire and rescue the old man, Vrindavan, but failed to do so.
Later the family members called the police and the cops rushed to the spot but before they could summon fire tenders, the old man was already dead.
The cops sent the body for post-mortem after the fire was doused. A case was also registered and further investigations are on.
Meanwhile in Kayamganj police station area of Farrukhabad, a woman consumed poison to end her life after which her husband also hanged himself to death.
On getting information, the district police chief and other officers reached the spot on Friday morning and started an investigation.
Superintendent of Police Meena said that Manoj Kumar of Kori Samaj village in Nagla Dattu area of Kotwali Kayamganj called 112 at night and informed that his cousin Sanjay and his wife Pushpa had committed suicide.
On receiving the information, Circle Officer Sohrab Alam and Kotwali in-charge Inspector Jaiprakash Pal went to the spot. In the preliminary investigation, it came to light that 21-year-old Pushpa committed suicide by consuming poison and later her 25-year-old husband Sanjay committed suicide by hanging himself.
The district police chief said Pushpa, daughter of Surendra Kori of Majhola village was married to Sanjay of Katra in neighboring district Shahjahanpur eight months ago. Sanjay was a meter reader in the electricity department. He said the motive was yet to be ascertained and the bodies were sent for autopsy.
In Firozabad district, the owner of a petrol pump, Avinash, died due to bullet injury under suspicious circumstances.
The relatives of the deceased informed the police that the victim committed suicide by shooting himself with a licensed revolver in his house in Ganesh Nagar under North Police station
The petrol pump owner was taken to the district hospital where the doctors pronounced him dead.
According to the police, the petrol pump owner was ill for a long time.