lakhimpur Kheri, which is boiling for the last over a fortnight once more witnessed communal tension after teenage lovers, belonging to other communities, reportedly committed suicide under mysterious circumstances late on Thursday evening.
The tension mainly started after the body of the girl was fished out by the police while the youth was still missing. The girl’s family accused the boy’s side of orchestrating the killing. Heavy police force is camping in the area to maintain communal harmony. Over half a dozen teams were also pushed into action to search the boy’s body from the river.
Reports said that some local residents in Badagaon area found a Scooty (UP31AQ-9411) parked on corner of bridge over Sharda Canal under Kheri Kotwali area and two foot-wears, one of girl and another of boy also lying at the spot on Thursday late evening. Some passers-by claimed that a teenage lover was seen jumping in the river to commit suicide. The local police which reached the spot immediately pushed some divers to rescue the victims. However, when their efforts went in vein, they made efforts to maintain the identity of the victims.
later in the night, the identity of the two were maintained as Fariya, a resident of Shastrinagar, and Devendra Joshi, a resident of Joshi Tola, both aged about 17-years and studying in class 10th in local Don Bosco School. The cops claimed that probes showed that the two were having an affair and probably committed suicide following objection by their family members.
Reports said that the communal tension started after the local cops fished out the girl’s body but failed to search the boy. The girl’s family claimed that the youth had killed the girl. The local police, who took the report, had not registered a case so far and were still trying to search the youth before proceeding with any further action in the matter. Seeing tension between the two communities, heavy police force is camping in the area along with senior officers.
Meanwhile in Etawah, local police has arrested 5 kidnappers from Saifai, alleged to be close to a Samajwadi Party leader and rescued a 13-year-old boy from their clutches on Friday. The boy, a student of seventh standard was kidnapped and a ransom of Rs 11 lakh was demanded from the family members for release. The arrested people are close to former SP MlA Manikchand Yadav though the ivolvement of the leader was not found in the kidnapping, police claimed. Saifai is the home village of outgoing chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Shivhari Meena said that the criminals kidnapped one Prashant Shakya( 13) on March 8 when he was returning from his school near Bahadurpur Bridge. The SSP said that three teams of the police worked in the case and arrested five people and rescued the boy safely. The arrested criminals have been identified as Satyaveer Yadav, Avnish Prajapati, Sukhveer Rajput, Shyam Sunder and Mahendra Singh Nagla. Three country made pistols and several cartridges were recovered from the kidnappers.