With government of Uttrakhand already announced to take all the `Missing’ during the recent calamity in the State as `Dead’ just after one month and to distribute compensation to their family members, a youth hailing from Muzzafarnagar tried to grab the opportunity by declaring his 60-year-old father to have fell victim in the same tragedy.
He filed a fake missing complaint about him with the local police but ran out of luck when his neighbours informed the truth to the cops. The local police now moved an application against the youth to initiate legal proceedings against him for lodging a fake report with them.
Reports said that Manohar lal, hailing from Muzaffarnagar had filed a missing complaint about his father Rehtulal with the district authorities who opened a help centre for providing information for missing pilgrims, on Tuesday. He disclosed before the authorities that his father had gone to Kedarnath for darshan and had last spoken to him on June 10 last. later he tried to make contact with him but failed to do so.
The local authorities took his complaint and later handed it over to the police who during investigation found that Manhohar made fake claims. It was learnt that Rehtulal was missing for the last more than seven years.
The cops subsequently grilled Manohar who after two hours of questioning broke down and confessed to have filed the fake complaint just to get compensation as he need money. Meanwhile four persons were killed in two separate mishaps while a double murder was reported from lakhimpur Kheri. In Shrawasti, one person was killed and two dozen others injured when a bus overturned in Bhinga locality on Tuesday evening. The mishap also triggered protests by locals who torched the bus and blocked the road for several hours. Reports said that Santosh Kumar (30), hailing form the same locality was killed when the bus carrying passengers overturned on his road-side shop on Bhinga-Bahraich highway on Tuesday evening. Agitated locals who gathered at the spot after learning of the incident later torched the bus and staged a road blockade. local police which rushed to the spot used mild force to chase away the trouble makers.
In another mishap reported from Bagpat, some girls went to Yamuna river at Jagosh hamlet of Baghpat on Tuesday evening when three of them identified as Khushi (8), Sonam (6) and Nisha (5), who were playing near the river suddenly slipped and drowned in the river. The bodies of the girls were later fished out by some local residents and sent for autopsy test.
In lakhimpur Kheri, a man and his daughter were hacked to death allegedly over a property dispute on Tuesday night. According to reports, Dinesh Pal Singh (44), a resident of Palia in lakhimpur Kheri and his daughter
Rekha (24), who was married to a resident of Banshinagar hamlet, were hacked to death while they were standing outside their house on Tuesday night. local police which rushed to the spot suspected some property dispute as motive behind the sensational murder and claimed to have picked up half a dozen suspects and interrogating them to get some lead. The body was also sent for post-mortem examination.