Spurious liquor taken to celebrate peaceful completion of Panchayat polls claimed two lives in Chandauli while two others were still battling for their lives. Interestingly, when the official report confirmed that the death occurred due to illicit liquor, local police officers made an attempt to save their skins claiming that the victim died of due to food poisoning. A case has been registered in this regard and bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
Reports said that after the elections in Naiyapartola Chittampur locality of Mugalsarai in Chandauli were conducted peacefully on last Tuesday, Surendra, took his friends to have a liquor party at his native village in Rewa under the Alinagar police station, also in Chandauli, on late night on the same day. After having party till the wee hours, Surendra (25)returned to Chittanpur but suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, his condition started deteriorating due to regular vomiting.
later Surendra along with his friend Sukkhu (22), Jitendra and Surjeet, who all made similar complaints were rushed to district hospital where both Surendra and Sukkhu, succumbed later in the evening. Circle Officer of Mugalsarai, Pramod Kumar Yadav, when contacted by the local media persons, he dumped the case claiming that “Sukhu and Surendra, both died due to suspected food poisoning.”.
Meanwhile in another tragedy reported from Sonebhadra, at least half a dozen persons were killed and as many others injured when explosives, to be used for mining, went off inside a room in Obra town on Thursday. The incident took place in Rasprehari mining area of Sonbhadra district. The injured were rushed to a hospital where their condition was stated to be serious, police said.
Identity of those killed in the explosion could not be established till late evening, police said, adding that the debris was being searched as it was suspected that more people might be trapped inside it. The incident comes close on the heels of a similar explosion in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district in which 88 people were killed. The explosion took place when mining gelatin stored in a house in Petlawad town of Jhabua went off on September 13.