Minor students hurl bombs at birthday party in Prayagraj
Darpan News Desk IANS, 05 Jul, 2022 12:36 PM
Prayagraj, July 5 (IANS) In a shocking incident, two groups of minor students hurled bombs at each other at Sangam in Prayagraj where one group was celebrating a birthday.
The incident took place around midnight on Monday.
Three youths of a group have suffered serious injuries in the bombing incident.
On receiving information about the incident, SP City Dinesh Kumar Singh, along with police force, reached the spot.
The injured youths were sent to the hospital for treatment and the matter is being investigated.
Both the groups study in the same school.
According to reports, some students had reached the Sangam area to celebrate a birthday party. Meanwhile, people from the other group also reached there and they hurled bombs at the youths celebrating the birthday.
All the students are minor.
The SP City said that in the past also both the groups have clashed with each other.
An FIR has been registered in Civil Lines police station. However, the immediate provocation for the incident is yet to be ascertained.
The police have been raiding various places to arrest the accused.
The Chief Minister said the government is fully sensitive towards checking cross-border infiltration in Punjab. He said Punjab Police is constantly in touch with the Border Security Force (BSF) and other agencies for this purpose.
While briefing the officers, the DGP said the topmost priority of the government, as directed by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, is to further strengthen the fight against drugs to make Punjab a drug-free state, besides eliminating the gangster culture, maintaining law and order, and detection of crime.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur announced Rs 5 lakh to the next of the kin of the deceased, whereas Rs 15,000 as immediate relief for the injured. He said free treatment would be provided to the injured.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday carried out his first Cabinet expansion by inducting five legislators, including second-time MLA Aman Arora, into his council of ministers. The expansion came in less than four months of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sweeping to victory in the Assembly elections by winning 92 seats of the 117 seats.
The police have so far managed to nab four of the accused, including one woman, who have been identified as Gurjant Singh (31), Navjot Singh (30), Satpal Singh (28) and Gurpreet Kaur (30).
The ambidextrous sharpshooter, identified as Ankit alias Chhota, a resident of Sonipat in Haryana, was most desperate to commit the crime."He fired simultaneously from two pistols in his two hands," H.G.S. Dhaliwal, Special Commissioner (Special Cell), said during a media briefing.
