TEENAGE BOY BEATEN TO DEATH, FOUR ARESTED
A shopkeeper, implicating a teenage employee of his shop for a theft in his shop, tied him to an electric pole and thrashed him to death with traditional weapons at Badakagaon village under Tarari police station in Bhojpur district.
TEENAGE BOY BEATEN TO DEATH, FOUR ARESTED
2-NOV-ENG 1
RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL
ARA--------------------------A shopkeeper, implicating a teenage employee of his shop for a theft in his shop, tied him to an electric pole and thrashed him to death with traditional weapons at Badakagaon village under Tarari police station in Bhojpur district. The deceased was identified as Prem Kumar 16 son of Dhanoj Kumar alias Dhanoj Bari of Badakagaonn village. Later the police recovered the body and brought it to the Ara Sadar Hospital for postmortem. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Tarari police station in this regard. Police arrested four persons Prakash Sharma, Deepak Sharma sons of Shankh Sharma, Abhishek Sharma son of Ajay Sharma and Chhotu Sharma son of Fani Sharma and sent them to jail after interrogation. Police are investigating the matter and also conducting raids to arrest the rest persons made named accused in the FIR.
Gunjan Kumar, younger brother of the deceased said that his brother Prem Kumar worked in the shop of Ajay Sharma where he worked to load and unload cement and other articles. He said in the night of Dipawali, Ajay Sharma and other falsely accused Prem Kumar of theft in the shop of Prakash Sharma and tied him to an electric pole. Later they thrashed him with traditional weapons till he fell unconscious. They themselves informed the police regarding the theft and when the police arrived at the spot, they handed him over to the police. Seeing his condition serious, the police admitted him the Primary Health Centre at Tarari where he succumbed to his injuries next day. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Tarari police station in this regard on the statement of Gunjan Kumar, younger brother of the deceased against five persons including Ajay Sharma, his son Abhishek Sharma, Prakash Sharma, Deepak Sharma and Chhotu Sharma.
On the other hand, Dhanoj Kumar, father of the deceased said that his son worked in the shop of Ajay Sharma for the last several months. At about midnight on October 31, 2024, Ajay Sharma informed him that his son Prem Kumar was caught red handed teasing women folk and also committing theft in the house. When he reached the spot, he found that they were thrashing his son tying to the electric pole. He was yearning for water and when his sister Neha tried to make him drink water, they did not even let him drink water and shooed her away and in the meantime, he succumbed to his injuries before his eyes.
SHO Tarari police station Pradeep Kumar Bhaskar said that the deceased worked in the cement shop of Ajay Sharma and Prakash Sharma has grocery shop nearby. They falsely implicated the deceased for a theft in the grocery shop of Prakash Sharma and thrashed him till he fell unconscious. On information the police rushed to the spot and admitted the injured in the Primary Health Centre at Tarari where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment. Later the police arrested four of five named accused and sent them to jail after interrogation and the police are also conducting raids to arrest the fifth named accused in this regard.
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