Two electrocuted to death, one hurt in UP village
Muzaffarnagar, Sep. 24 (PTI): Two men were killed while another was injured in a village near here after being electrocuted by a fencing wire installed in the fields to prevent the cattle from destroying the crop. Two men, aged 25 and 24, were killed while another 22- year-old was injured after being electrocuted from the fencing wire in Hurmujpur village under the Kandhla police station area in Shamli district. According to SHO O P Choudhry, police were interrogating the injured person over the motive of the three men in trying to enter the field.
Security forces bust militant hideout in Kupwara
Srinagar, Sep. 24 (PTI): Security forces today busted a militant hideout and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. Security forces launched a search operation and busted the hideout in the forest area of Kupwara, a police official said. He said one AK-47 rifle, one LMG, two pistols, one rocket projectile gun, an IED, one wireless set and several dozen rounds of ammunition were recovered from the hideout. Police has registered a case in this regard, the official said.
Village revenue official killed by Naxals in Chhattisgarh
Raipur, Sep. 24 (PTI): Suspected Naxals killed a 57-year- old revenue official of a village on suspicion of him being a “police informer” in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said today. The rebels attacked the ‘kotwar’, identified as Sukku Nareti, last night in Sureli village under Antagarh police station area, Kanker’s Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jaipraksh Badhai told PTI. A group of armed ultras stormed into Nareti’s house and dragged him out on the street. They then strangled him with a rope and threw the body on a road near the village, the police official said quoting eyewitnesses.
Ban commuters from carrying matchboxes, lighters: Delhi govt to DMRC
New Delhi, Sep. 24 (PTI): The Delhi government has issued a strict compliance notice to the DMRC, asking it to prohibit passengers from carrying matchboxes and lighters in metro trains and on station premises as it “promotes smoking”. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had in January taken lighters and matchboxes off the list of restricted items. A commuter is now allowed to carry one matchbox and one lighter in metro trains and on station premises. Dr S K Arora, Additional Director (Health), Delhi, said the government had written to the DMRC that carrying a matchbox or lighter is a violation of Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rule, 2008 under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA).
Man, three children killed as truck hits motorcycle in MP
Rewa (MP), Sep. 24 (PTI): A speeding truck rammed into a motorcycle killing a 30-year-old man and his three minor children near Ajagraha by-pass here, police said today. Jitendra Singh was returning home after picking his four children from their school when the truck hit his vehicle near the by-pass last evening, Superintendent of Police Bharat Dubey said. Singh and his three children – daughters Sagun (9) and Palak (6) and son Awadh Singh (7) – died on the spot, he said. His another daughter sustained injuries in the accident and she rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital where she was reported to be in a serious condition, Dubey said. The truck driver fled the spot after the mishap, he said.
Three more succumb to swine flu in Indore
Indore, Sep. 24 (PTI): Three more persons succumbed to swine flu in Indore in last 24-hours taking the toll in the district due to the H1N1 virus infection to 24 this year. Asha Pandit, district in-charge of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), said, patients who succumbed to swine flu included a woman aged 39-year-old and two men respectively aged 25-years and 59-years. All hailed from Indore district, she said. Pandit said as many as 90 patients of city hospitals have tested positive since January this year and 24 out of them have died. Of the deceased, 10 had come from other districts for treatment here while 14 hailed from Indore district, she added.
Four dead in two separate road accidents in Jammu
Jammu, Sep. 24 (PTI): Four people were today killed in two separate road accidents in Reasi and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said. A vehicle fell in a gorge at Gulpora village in Reasi district around 2.15 pm, killing two people, both residents of Budhal, on the spot, a senior police officer said. Another person, who was injured in the incident has been admitted to a hospital, the officer said, adding, the vehicle was coming to Chasana from Budhal. In Kathua district, two youths were killed and another was injured when a tractor, while negotiating a curve, fell into a stream near Lakhanpur, a police spokesperson said. The injured has been hospitalised, he said.
16-year old girl allegedly commits suicide
Mumbai, Sep. 24 (PTI): Upset after being scolded by parents, a 16-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide in suburban Powai, police said today. The girl, a class 10 student, ended her life by jumping into the Powai lake yesterday, police said. The body was fished out by police and taken to a hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, a senior official attached to the Powai police station said. The girl was upset after her parents scolded her for talking to some people, he said. Further probe is on.
34 juvenile inmates escape from remand home in Bihar
Munger (Bihar), Sep. 24 (PTI): Thirty-four juvenile inmates today escaped from a remand home after cutting through the metal grills of the main gate, police said.
“A total of 34 juvenile inmates escaped from the remand home located in fort area of Munger, after cutting the grill gate this morning (at around 11 am),” Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Kundan Kumar told PTI.
However, out the 34 inmates, 11 have returned to the remand home, Kumar said. Efforts are on to trace the remaining 23 juveniles, the SDM said, adding, many adjoining areas of the town have been cordoned off.
The remand home had 86 inmates. Parents of the inmates have been informed, the officer said.
