A teenage couple committed suicide just after the two were caught together by a local youth inside a room in Kaushambi. Local police registered a case in this regard and sent the bodies for autopsy.
Reports said that Nankul (20) of Udathu village under Charva police station of Kaushambi, was having an affair with Gorki (19), a resident of the same area. Gorki’s father Ram Lautan and other family members were working in the field while she was alone in the house. Taking advantage of the situation, Nankul reached her house for a meeting.
According to reports, Rajendra, also a residing of the same village, saw Nankul entering Gorki’s house. He also reached there and bolted the doors from outside. Later, he raised an alarm. However, the couple locked the door from inside. Later, police were called and villagers broke open the doors, only to find Nankul and Gorki hanging from the ceiling.
Locals said the couple committed suicide to avoid embarrassment. Additional SP Ashok Kumar, who reached the spot, said the bodies had been sent for autopsy. He said they would take action if the family members of either Nankul or Gokri lodged a complaint and accused Rajendra for forcing the two to end their lives.
Meanwhile, in Unnao, one person died and two others sustained burns after a gas cylinder exploded in a truck parked outside a gas plant on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place outside a Hindustan Petroleum gas plant in Dahi Chowki industrial area of the district, Kotwali station house officer (SHO) Dinesh Chandra Mishra said.
He said the condition of the two injured was critical. Citing eyewitness accounts, Mishra said, “On Tuesday morning, the driver and two other persons were sleeping in the truck parked outside the gas plant. There was a small gas cylinder which suddenly caught fire and soon, the truck went up in flames”.
The flames were doused by fire brigade personnel, he said, adding that one man died in the incident. Police is trying to get in touch with the truck’s owner while the identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, the SHO added.
Elsewhere in Badaun, two women were killed and 12 others injured when a tractor-trolley they were travelling in fell into a gorge after being hit by a speeding bus, police said on Tuesday. According to Superintendent of Police (City) Jitendra Kumar Srivastava, the accident occurred around 11 pm on Monday on a bypass on Bisauli road. All the passengers in the tractor-trolley were from the same family and on their way to a religious function.
Police and local residents rushed the injured to the district hospital. The deceased were identified as Anupam Sharma (30) and Poonam Devi (55), police said, adding that the bus driver, who tried to flee the spot, had been arrested. The condition of five of the injured is stated to be critical.
