A 18-year-old girl was alleged to be torched alive on diktats of a local panchayat in Bijnore on late Thursday night.
Her guilt was said to be just that as she alleged to have facilitated one of the local girl to elope with her boy friend few days back. Interestingly the local police denied that the matter was related to panchayat and said that they already arrested one of the accused in the matter. Efforts were on to nab the remaining accused. According to reports, one Kiran, a native of Bhudhal Hingpur locality of Bijnore was found in unconscious state with more than 90 per cent burn injuries on late Thursday night.
She was shifted to Chandpur primary health centre where she reportedly disclosed in her dying declaration before a magistrate that Kailash, Ajay, Bhim Singh, Pintu and some others had sprinkle kerosene over her body and set her ablaze to torch her alive. later they escaped after she turned unconscious hoping that she was already dead. She claimed that the move to torch her alive was made just as daughter of one of the accused Kailash, eloped with her boy friend but the girl’s family suspect that she facilitated her to escape with the accused. It may be mentioned that Kailash’s daughter eloped with her lover about a month back and had already returned home after several days.
Reports further said that after recording above statement, Kiran succumbed to her injuries on Friday afternoon. Her family members later alleged that some prominent persons of the area which also included Kailash, Ajay, Bhim Singh, Pintu and others called a panchayat on Thursday in which they accused Kiran for facilitating a village to girl to elope with her lover. The sarpanch fixed responsibility of Kiran for the crime and gave dictate that she should be burnt alive so no one in the future could muster courage to commit such crime. After this order, the said accused burnt Kiran in the night. The family members said that the local police was also well aware of the panchayat but they not took any cognizance which boosted the morale of the accused and they freely committed the crime.
However, the local police said that they already arrested Kailash who was involved in the crime and that the victim’s statement was also recorded before a magistrate in which she not mentioned that the incident was a fall out of any dictate by the village panchayat. A case was registered in the matter and further investigations are on in the matter. Meanwhile over half a dozen armed robbers struck terror on AC Coach (B-2) of Delhi Bound GT Express when they looted cash and valuables from passengers on Friday late night.
According to reports, as the Delhi-bound GT Express coming from Chennai left Agra for Mathura, over half a dozen miscreants having guns and other arms in their hands boarded into the AC coach at 3am on Saturday and threatened all the passengers with dire consequences. They looted purse and other costly belongings of the passengers and put in a gunny back before halting the train at Farah locality and escaped. Deputy SP of the Government. Railway Police, Ajaykant Garg, who investigated the matter claimed that the incident occurred between Runakata and Farah railway stations. He said that they already get a case registered in this regard and had detained some suspects as they believe that members of some local gang of the area was involved in the crime.