Four persons were killed and five policemen were injured when a truck collided with a mini-truck and a police jeep in Kotwali police station area of National Highway-2 at Chandauli on early Monday morning. Reports said that the truck loaded with illegal cattle was intercepted by the cops of the Kotwali police station in Futaia locality of Chandauli on early Monday morning.
However tragedy occured when the truck driver tried to escape to avert police action and in the process he hit the mini-truck and the police jeep killing four persons and critically injuring five cops. The deceased, all natives of Chhattisgarh, have been identified as Suraj lal, Ram Kishore and Khejelu Yadav and one unidentified.The injured included a sub-inspector and four constables. Two injured have been rushed to Varanasi in critical conditions. Police later arrested four people who were involved in cattle smuggling while the driver managed to escape after abandoning the truck.
Meanwhile a mother and her two daughters crushed to death in Bahriach. Reports said that Shipla Kanaujiya(32) was going to a temple this morning along with her two daughters Rachna(11) and Sapna(8), when an unidentified vehicle
crushed them in Kaiserganj locality of Bahraich. All the three died on the spot. Sapna is the wife of Gyanchandra Kanaujiya, who is the principal of Hukum
Singh Inter College at Kaiserganj. local police registered a case in this regard and claimed to have launched a manhunt to trace out the vehicle and arrest the driver.
Meanwhile negligent and callous approach of the authorities forced two persons to make attempt to end their lives in Pratapgarhh and Hardoi respectively. However
what was shocking is that both the victims preferred to end their lives inside the collectorate premises. local police later registered cases with the respective police stations and rushed the victims to hospitals. In the first incident, a man
reached Collectrate compund at Pratapgarh and consumed poison right in front of district magistrate's room on Monday morning. He accused the local police for not
taking any action on his complaint over illegal grabbing of his land. He was shifted to hospital and a probe was ordered in the matter. In another similar case reported from Hardoi, the record room in-charge consumed poisonous substance after he was served a notice by court for missing a file related to a case. He pleaded innocence but when his seniors not listened to him, he went ahead to make suicide attempt.