Tag: Mandsaur

  • MP woman killed as steel shards pierce her after bursting cracker by putting steel box on it

    By PTI

    MANDSAUR: A 19-year-old woman died after pieces of steel pierced her body when she burst a firecracker by keeping a tiffin box upside down on it in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on Wednesday, police said.

    The incident occurred at Karju village when the victim was bursting crackers outside her house, said Bhaugarh police station in-charge Arvind Singh Rathore.

    “The young woman put a steel tiffin-box upside down on ‘sutli bomb’ (firecracker made of jute twine) after lighting it. However, as the cracker burst, it shattered the steel box into pieces and its splinters entered her body, including the stomach,” he said.

    She was rushed to the district hospital, where doctors declared her dead, he said.

    MANDSAUR: A 19-year-old woman died after pieces of steel pierced her body when she burst a firecracker by keeping a tiffin box upside down on it in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on Wednesday, police said.

    The incident occurred at Karju village when the victim was bursting crackers outside her house, said Bhaugarh police station in-charge Arvind Singh Rathore.

    “The young woman put a steel tiffin-box upside down on ‘sutli bomb’ (firecracker made of jute twine) after lighting it. However, as the cracker burst, it shattered the steel box into pieces and its splinters entered her body, including the stomach,” he said.

    She was rushed to the district hospital, where doctors declared her dead, he said.

  • Angry at low price, farmer sets garlic crop on fire in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur

    By PTI

    MANDSAUR: A farmer set his garlic crop on fire after he failed to get a good rate for it at an agricultural produce market in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Sunday.

    The incident occurred at Mandsaur Krishi Upaj Mandi Samiti on Saturday and the farmer has been identified as Shankar Singh, a resident of Mahidpur in Ujjain, they added.

    Mandi inspector Jagdish Babar said the garlic crop of the farmer was auctioned at around Rs 1400 per quintal since the quality was poor, adding that over 8,000 sacks of garlic had arrived at the market on Saturday, which were sold between Rs 1,000 to Rs 12,000 per quintal depending on the quality.

    “Angry that his crop fetched a low rate, the farmer set some 50-60 kilograms of garlic on fire.”

    Babar said, adding that average quality garlic was sold between Rs 2,500 and Rs 5,500 per quintal.

    Singh, talking to reporters, claimed he had set on fire 150 kilograms of garlic as he had spent Rs 2.5 lakh cultivating it and was getting only Rs 1 lakh when selling it.

    A video of the incident showed people standing around the burning heap of garlic and shouting patriotic slogans.

    A mandi official filed a complaint with Yashodharman police station claiming Singh’s crop burning act was pre-planned.

  • Family alleges custodial torture after Rajasthan youth dies in custody of MP police narcotic wing

    By Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Five cops of the Madhya Pradesh Police’s Narcotics Wing posted in the Mandsaur district have been suspended in connection with the custodial death of a 21-year-old Rajasthan youth Sohail Khan.

    Sohail, a resident of Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan was arrested on Friday afternoon for allegedly possessing smack (narcotic substance), but died the next morning in narcotics wing police’s custody.

    While alleging that sub-inspector Rajmal Dahima had demanded Rs 45 lakh — failing which Sohail would be implicated in a false NDPS Act of Arms Act case — the youngster’s family demanded that the concerned cops, including the sub-inspector, be booked for murder, as it was their excessive torture which led to Sohail’s death.

    According to Mandsaur district police superintendent Siddharth Chaudhary, “As per preliminary probe, the youth Sohail Khan, who hailed from Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district was arrested by the Narcotics Wing on Friday night for possessing 90 gm smack. His health suddenly worsened, after which he was brought to the hospital on Saturday morning, where he was declared dead later. As per rules, a judicial probe has been recommended in the matter and the autopsy of the body will be performed under the camera by a panel of doctors.”

    “The senior officials of the state police’s narcotics wing too have been informed about the matter and an internal probe will be conducted by them as well. All aspects of the matter, including the allegations of the youngster’s family will be probed during the judicial enquiry,” Chaudhary added.

    According to key MP police sources, five cops of the narcotics wing posted in Mandsaur, including sub inspector Dahima have been suspended till the probe is completed.

    The deceased youth Sohail’s 29-year-old brother-in-law Asif Khan, also a native of Pratapgarh district which borders Mandsaur, told The New Indian Express on Sunday that he along with Sohail was on way to Mandsaur on Friday afternoon for making purchases for a marriage in the family when their motorcycle was stopped by a white Scorpio boarded by three plain-clothed narcotics wing cops, including sub-inspector Dahima.

    “They stopped us at a toll booth on Mandsaur-Pratapgarh road at around 3.30 pm on Friday, took the keys of our motorbike and herded us into their vehicle, asking us where is the maal (drugs). We told them that we are farmers who are going to Mandsaur to make marriage related purchase. But they were not ready to listen to us and kept thrashing us. We were taken to the narcotics wing police station and were beaten with belts. Sohail was taken to another room and I could clearly listen to one of the cops asking others to hang him for being thrashed brutally,” Asif said.

    “At around 8 pm, they rang one of our relatives Izhar alias Babloo Khan, who is a Community Liaison Group (CLG) member of police in our native Pratapgarh district. He came to a place around a km from the police station in Mandsaur, where I was handed over to him after he made some payment to the cops. They also asked him to pay a heavy sum for Sohail’s release,” Asif alleged further.

    Babloo Khan, seconding Asif’s allegations said, “I was called by sub-inspector Dahima to Mandsaur at around 8 pm on Friday, where he allowed Asif to go only on payment of Rs 4.5 lakh. He demanded Rs 45 lakh for releasing Sohail, failing which he would be framed up in NDPS Act or Arms Act case. On Saturday morning, the narcotics wing cops in Mandsaur rang Sohail’s brother and informed that Sohail was hospitalized after developing health problems. When we reached the hospital on Saturday morning, we were told that Sohail had already died. The injury marks on Sohail’s body clearly suggest that he was tortured to death. The cops should be booked for murder.”