One shot dead, car set ablaze as quarrel between two groups in UP turns violent; two detained
Shahjahanpur (UP) (PTI): A fracas between two groups in this Uttar Pradesh district escalated into a full-fledged fight that saw guns fired, killing a man and injuring two others, and a car set ablaze, police said on Tuesday.
The incident occurred late on Monday night in the Azizganj locality here.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Dwivedi told PTI that the two groups got into a heated argument that soon turned violent with each of them calling up reinforcements and attacking each other with sticks and rods.
In the melee, someone whipped out a gun and started firing, injuring three brothers -- Kamlesh (40), Jitendra (32), and Akhilesh (28), the police officer said.
Upon receiving information about the incident, police officials dashed to the spot and took the three siblings to a hospital, where Kamlesh died during treatment, Dwivedi said.
"I have reviewed the situation and visited the Government Medical College. Officials have been directed to form a team to immediately arrest the accused," the SP said, adding it was also being probed as to who set the car on fire.
Meanwhile, police have taken two suspects -- Ramniwas and Sumit -- into custody for questioning. An FIR has been registered against four named individuals and one unidentified person, an official said, adding Kamlesh's body has been sent for post-mortem.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
