SDM, cops among 42 booked after mother, daughter die during demolition drive

KANPUR A day after a girl and her daughter had been burnt alive throughout an anti-encroachment power in Uttar Pradesh`s Kanpur Dehat district, police on Tuesday booked forty two people, which includes a sub-divisional Justice of the Peace, 4 sales officers, and over a dozen cops on homicide and different prices, officers stated.

Superintendent of police (Kanpur Dehat) BBTGS Murthy stated police lodged an FIR on prices of homicide, try and homicide in opposition to SDM (Maitha) Gyaneshwar Prasad, SHO Dinesh Gautam, sales legitimate Ashok Dixit, lekhpal (sales officer) Ashok Singh, JCB motive force Vishal and others, which includes cops and sales branch officers. “Lekhpal Ashok Singh and JCB motive force Deepak were arrested so far,” Murthy stated. SDM Gyaneshwar Prasad has been located beneathneath suspension.

Meanwhile, heavy police deployment has been made in and across the Madauli village in Maitha tehsil as anxiety prevailed after the deaths. Local residents, which includes own circle of relatives individuals of the deceased, did now no longer permit the police to take the charred our bodies for a autopsy examination. However, after deputy leader minister Brajesh Pathak spoke to the own circle of relatives over phone, they agreed for the post-mortem on Tuesday afternoon, stated a senior police officer.

The household of the deceased sought ex-gratia of ₹five crore and a central authority activity to as a minimum individuals of the bereaved own circle of relatives. “The police are investigating the case and stringent movement could be taken on the idea of findings,” stated Alok Singh, ADGP (Kanpur zone). On Monday, the 44-year-antique girl and her 21-year-antique daughter allegedly set themselves afire in a hut withinside the presence of police, district management and sales officers, who had long gone to Madauli village withinside the Rura vicinity to get rid of encroachments from a “gram samaj” land, a police officer stated.

The 44-year-antique girl`s husband, who suffered burn accidents in a bid to keep his spouse and daughter, claimed that the gram samaj land changed into together along with his own circle of relatives for almost one hundred years.

On criticism of a villager Ashok Dixit, SDM Gyaneshwar Prasad demolished their pucca shape in January this year, stated the girl`s husband. The own circle of relatives protested on the DM`s office. “We had been insulted with the aid of using the DM, ADM and SDM (Maitha). They did now no longer concentrate to us and we had been thrown out of the campus,” he stated .

“(Ashok) Dixit met the DM on Monday together along with his criticism and he or she ordered the demolition,” he alleged. “SDM Gyaneshwar reached the village in an hour with a JCB and heavy police contingent. My spouse changed into simply seeking to stall the demolition however they killed her. No one helped them as they had been burning.”

Their son, who registered a criticism on the idea of which the FIR changed into registered, alleged the “SDM and lekhpal set the residence on fire”. “Had my father and I now no longer rushed, we too might have died. The SDM changed into screaming – `no person must be left alive`,” he alleged.

District Justice of the Peace Neha Jain instructed journalists that the crew had reached the village to clean encroachment. The girls tried to prevent them and attacked crew individuals. “Thereafter, they resorted to self-immolation withinside the room. SHO (Rura) suffered burn accidents seeking to keep them. A panel has been fashioned to inquire into the incident,” she stated.