Three persons including a 38-year-old sub-inspector posted at Crime Branch Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID0 lucknow died in separate road mishaps reported from Sitapur and Shahjahenpur districts.
In the first case reported from Kamlapur area on National Highway 24 in Sitapur, SI Ravindranath Chaturvedi, a native of Azamgarh and posted as SI (ministerial) in CB CID was on its way back home from Haridwar with his wife and driver in Innova (UP32AQ-2499), when it collided with a PIKUP (UP34T-2013), on early Wednesday morning.
While Chaturvedi died on the spot, his wife was admitted to district hospital from where she was referred to Trauma Centre here at Medical College and her condition was stated to be stable. Police has lodged an FIR in this connection and launched a manhunt to nab the driver, who fled from the scene leaving the vehicle after the accident.
In another incident reported from Shahjahanpur, two persons, including a village head, were killed and another person injured when their vehicle was hit by a truck in Khutar area on Wednesday morning. Rakshapal Singh (48), the village head, and Mankeet Singh (40) were killed on the spot while Kamaljeet was injured after their SUV was hit by the truck, while they were on way to lucknow. An FIR was registered and a manhunt was launched to nab the truck driver.
Meanwhile in a separate case reported from Gonda, a 28-year-old woman and her two children were allegedly burnt for dowry in Susaila village in Tarabganj area here. According to reports, Arti and her children Sachin (5) and Chhama (3) were fast asleep when they caught fire “under mysterious circumstances” and died on late Tuesday night. Their charred bodies were found lying inside the home. Arti’s brother Jitendra has lodged an FIR alleging Arti’s husband and in-laws for killing them for dowry. local police claimed that prima facie appeared that they were set afire by someone. “We have detained victim’s husband and brother-in-law Bhim Singh,” the cops said, adding that probe is underway in the matter. Bodies of victims have been sent for postmortem.