A 60-year-old trader identified as Maqbool Ahmed was allegedly shot at by his neighbour with a licensed weapon for refusing to sell cigarette in Maqrauda village, Tilai bazar locality, under Mauaima police station. The police also arrested Ankush Patel of Tilai Bazar and seized his licensed SBBL gun. The police said on the said night Ankush Patel reached the shop of Maqbool in an inebriated state and asked for a cigarette. When Maqbool said the shop was closed, the accused left and returned after 15 minutes armed with his licensed gun and started arguing and abusing the shopkeeper. He started firing and one bullet injured the trader on his leg. A team of Mauaima police rushed to the spot and arrested Patel.
MISHAP: Over a dozen people sustained injuries when a roadways bus driver hit a Bolero late on Wednesday night. On getting information the police reached the spot and sent the injured to a hospital for treatment.
The bus collided head-on with the Bolero coming from Banda towards Prayagraj on National Highway 35, Jasra Nai Bazar, at 9 pm. As a result over a dozen people travelling in the Bolero were injured. The police admitted the injured to the hospital.
Station in-charge Ghurpur Sanjeev Kumar Choubey said the injured people were coming back from Gaya Dham in Bihar after ‘pind daan’. Gulab Singh (70), Poona Bai, Ramkali (65), Mamta (34), Jaganlal (70) and Mittu Lal (65) were injured. Driver Uttam got trapped in Bolero. The people somehow took him out. All the injured were sent to the Community Health Centre Jasra for treatment by an ambulance where doctors, after first aid, referred the driver Uttam Das and Poonabai to district hospital. Information about the accident was given to the families of the injured.