A badly burnt body of an unidentified girl was recovered in Aligarh while a 26-year-old constable’s body was found with bullet injury inside a police outpost in Baghpat.
While the Aligarh police registered a murder case and had started investigation, the Baghpat police dismissed any other angle and described the constable’s death as a case of suicide.
In Aligarh, the cops posted at Barla police station found the badly burnt body of an unidentified girl from the bushes on Thursday morning.
After visiting the spot where the body was found, Circle Officer Pankaj Srivastava claimed to have found burnt body parts.
While quizzing some labourers at a nearby brick kiln, it surfaced that some youths had come to the spot on a Scorpio MUV on Wednesday night, pushed a girl outside the vehicle, doused her with kerosene and torched her.
The killers remained at the spot till the girl was charred to death and only after that they left the site.
The labourers claimed that they were so shocked that they could not muster courage to save the girl or raise an alarm.
The labourers intimated the police about the incident only on Thursday morning.
A case was registered and the body was sent for autopsy.
Meanwhile in Baghpat, the body of police constable Pravin Kumar was found lying in a pool of blood inside Tikri police outpost of Doghat police station on Thursday. The revolver of outpost in-charge, sub-inspector Bhagwat Prasad was also found lying nearby.
The police denied any foul play and claimed that the deceased shot himself with the sub-inspector’s revolver.
Pravin was posted at Tikri outpost of Doghat police station and soon after he shot himself, sub-inspector Bhagwat Prasad ran inside only to find Kumar lying in a pool of blood.
Superintendent of Police of Baghpat, Pratap Gopendra Yadav, said that Kumar was apparently depressed over his deteriorating health and hence took the extreme step.
Kumar was a native of Tarara village of Amroha district and had joined the police in 2016. The incident is being probed.
Meanwhile in Fatehpur, Naseer Qureshi (40), who killed his wife and was trying flee, was nabbed and thrashed by locals leading to his death.
Qureshi had come to his in-laws’ place in Simaur village under Ghazipur police station to take his wife Afsari (35) back to his Banda home on Wednesday. There he had a tiff with her over some trivial issue and in a fit of rage, he attacked his wife with an axe, killing her on the spot.
Afsari’s mother and sister were also injured when they tried to rescue her.
They later raised an alarm and the neighbours nabbed Qureshi and beat him with lathis, leading to his death.
The bodies were sent for autopsy and the injured were admitted to a hospital.
A hunt was launched to nab the villagers who assaulted Qureshi.