State government has ordered a magistrate probe and two policemen along with 2 home guards have been suspended after 91 inmates of the Juvenile Observation Home situated in the Surajkund area of Nauchandi in Meerut escaped late on Sunday night. The inmates of same protection home had killed a sub-inspector few months back.
District magistrate on Meerut, Pankaj Yadav told media persons that the inmate fled from the Home by playing loud the music system. He said that they cut the window grill of the kitchen at first floor, than made a rope by tying some bed-sheets and came down with it’s help to fled from the home. He said that a magistrate probe has been ordered while the two policemen, constables Veeresh Kumar and Ankit, who were on duty at the Home, have been suspended. Two home guards were also suspended along with the policemen and a case have been registered against them in the local police station.
Police acting swiftly, however, managed to get hold of 41 of the escaped juvenile from the outskirts of the city, when they were trying to cross the district. DIG Meerut Range, Ramit Sharma said that an alert has been issued and all the exit points of the district have been sealed. He said that adjoining districts have also been alerted while check on the trains and buses are underway.
The DM said that the juvenile home is over crowed with about 200 children against the capacity of just 100. ‘ The inmates were frustrated with the delay in their trial could be the reason behind the escape as the juvenile home did not have stringent security system,” he further added, On Sunday, 43 juveniles from here were shifted to an observation home in Bulandshahr and Hapur, after which the number of juveniles in the home stands at 143.
Meanwhile an accused lodged at Jarwal Road police station’s lockup in Bahraich allegedly committed suicide in the wee hours of Monday. local authorities ordered a magisterial probe into the incident after protest by the victim’s family. local station officer along with cops of duty were also suspended in the matter. Reports said that Dinesh Singh (30), who was arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in a bike theft, committed suicide in lock-up. He was found hanging with the ceiling of the lock-up after which local police rushed him to near-by hospital but the doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.
later, the locals and family members of the victim held a protest on the Jarwal-Gonda road, leading to traffic jam there, after which the district administration ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.Meanwhile tension also grips Muzaffarnagar after two brothers, including a former Pradhan, were gunned down by criminals on the Pachenda link road on the Bhopa-Muzaffarnagar by-pass on Monday morning. Reports said that the incident occurred when the brothers — Vinod and Pramod of Kasampur village — were going to the civil court in connection with a murder case.
While the victims were going on a motorcycle, the criminal came on a car and pumped bullets from a close range. Vinod, the former Pradhan of Kasampur village, died on the spot and his brother Pramod tried to flee. But he too was shot dead in an agriculture field. A manhunt has been launched to arrest the culprits. An old rivalry was the reason behind the incident. Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Harinarain Singh said a couple of police teams have been set up to arrest the culprits.