Mystery shrouds over death of three teenagers inside a Yagyashala (Place to perform hawan and puja), in the temple city of Vrindavan, on Friday. local police who denied of any foul play had sent the bodies for post-mortem examination and were waiting for report before making any head-way with the probe.
Reports said that bodies of Kalyan(15), Ashu(16) and Manish(14), all natives of Jahangirpur village wererfound in the Anand Gosai Yaghshala near Banke Bihari temple on Friday morning. All the three who were workers as helpers in a local sweets shop had slept at the Yagyashala
on Thursday night.
Senior officials of police and districtadministration rushed to the spot soon after getting the information. They immediately get a case registered and sent dispatched the bodies for autopsy test. “The cause of the death is not being ascertained so we sent the bodies for post mortem,” SSP Manjil Saini said. The temple priests claimed that the victim died of asphyxiation.
In Kaushambi, four people, including three children, were burnt alive when a hatched house of a brick kiln labourer caught fire in the Karari area of the district late on Thursday night. Reports said that the incident occurred at Samai village where the hatched house of Rajendra who works in a nearby brick kiln factory caught fire at midnight. In the fire, Rajendra (38),his daughter Himani (10), sons lal Mehwa (6) and Chotu (4) were burnt alive. Reason behind the fire is yet to be known. Police is investigating the case.
Meanhile in another sensational incident reported from Meerut, three under-trials staged a daring escape from police custody after their associates fired upon a police van in an incident which also left three law and order personnel injured. Just few days back, hardened criminal Amit Bhura, escaped from police custody in Bagpat, when his henchmen opened fire, looted a SlR rifle and two assaulted AK-47 rifles from the cops. Bhura was still untraceable despite of formation of several teams and elite Special Task Force.
The fresh incident took place in the Civil lines police station area on Friday afternoon when seven prisoners were being shifted from a juvenile home to a prison, disclosed SSP Meerut, Onkar Singh. He claimed that some bike-borne persons fired upon the police van in which the prisoners were being shifted before freeing the three undertrials. The prisoners were being shifted to jail after it was found that they were not of juvenile age.
The three policemen have sustained minor injuries and have been given primary treatment, Singh said, adding that efforts are on to nab the trio and those who had helped them escape.