A 19-year-old girl was burnt alive by local villagers in Tarahkol locality of Deoria. Surprisingly the sensational incident took place in broad daylight when the local residents were holding a `panchayat’ to look into the affair of victim with a local youth. A case was now registered in this regard and all out hunt was on to nab the culprits who were reportedly absconded soon after the incident. Reports said that Anju, a resident of Tarahkol locality of Ikauna police station in Deoria was in love with a local youth identified as Ranjeet Singh. Her family members accepted the affair and but the boy’s kin were opposed to the affair so they objected to it. The kin of the youth were reportedly against the affair as the girl was having some white spot on her body. The matter however, took an ugly turn when family members of the girl called a panchayat to force the youth and his family members to marry her on Thursday morning.
Reports further said that when the panchayat was going on, some local villagers including two kin of the youth identified as Jai Hind and Ram Hausla, had heated exchange of words with the girl’s mother after which they nabbed and attacked her. In the meantime fearing threat to her life, Anju rushed inside her home but the accused chased and nabbed her in her home. later they poured kerosene on her clothes and set her ablaze. The girl who was writhing with pain somehow rushed to her terrace as her house was locked from outside and jumped from the first floor to save her life. She somehow doused the fire.
She was immediately rushed to District Hospital by some villagers who later called the police and narrated the entire trauma to them.
SP Deoria, Umesh Kumar Srivastava, who reached the spot and supervised the investigation claimed that they were tried to get the dying declaration of the victim recorded before a magistrate but she succumbed soon after reaching to hospital. He said that finding tension in the village between two communities, he deployed heavy police force in the area to avert clash. local SDM was also camping in the area along with police officers to maintain peace. Meanwhile two girls also died after they drowned in Meerut on Thursday morning.
Reports said that some girls belonging to Begumpur hamlet of Math in Meerut went to take bath in Yamuna river on Thursday morning. While taking bath, three of the girls suddenly drowned. Their colleagues raised an alary following which some local villagers responded to SOS and saved the life of 11-year- old Kamlesh but the other two died. later they fished out the bodies of remaining two victims identified as 13-year old Gita and 19-year-old Krishna, both residents of same locality. A case has been registered in this regard and bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.