Bodies of school owner, principal found buried in Agra school premises, 4 held
Agra, July 1: In a shocking incident on Monday, bodies of a 50-year-old school owner and 45-year-old school principal were found buried inside a school premises in Kaulakha area in Agra's Tajganj police circle.
Surender Lavania, a resident of Om Vihar, owned Sainik Bharti Inter College and Dr B.R. Ambedkar School in the city limits.
The other victim, identified as Vijay Kumar Jha, was a resident of Indirapuram and was the principal of Sainik Bharti Inter College.
The two had been missing since Friday morning, with their phones switched off after they left home around 10 a.m.
On Sunday, the police recovered the two bodies from Dr B.R. Ambedkar School premises and sent them for autopsy.
According to the police, four men identified as Dheeraj, his two brothers Sandeep and Neeraj, and their friend Vijay Singh have been accused of the murder of Lavania and Jha.
All the four men have been booked under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender).
Station House Officer of Tajganj, Anuj Kumar said, "Dheeraj was running Lavania's Dr B.R. Ambedkar School on rent for the past several years. He failed to pay rent in the past two years and owed Lavania some money. On Friday morning, when Jha, went to Ambedkar School to collect the pending rent from Dheeraj, the two engaged in a heated argument, after which Dheeraj, along with Sandeep and Vijay Singh, allegedly strangled Jha to death."
As the accused were making arrangements to dispose of Jha's body, Lavania came to meet Dheeraj at Ambedkar School and asked for Jha's whereabouts since his motorbike was parked inside the school premises.
Dheeraj lied to Lavania and claimed that Jha had left a moment ago. However, when Lavania called on his number, the phone which was in Dheeraj's pocket, began to ring.
Later, Lavania spotted Jha's body which was kept hidden behind the curtain of Dheeraj's office. By the time, he could alert anyone about the murder, Dheeraj and his brother Sandeep and friend Vijay Singh strangled Lavania to death too. They buried the two corpses inside the school premises.
SSP Agra Jogendra Kumar said: "The dual murder case was solved within 12 hours of first information received by local police. The team has been rewarded with Rs 25,000 cash."
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'Someone must be held accountable': HC converts civil suit on Goa nightclub tragedy into PIL
Panaji (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Monday converted a civil suit against Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) saying "someone has to be held accountable" for the tragedy in which 25 people were killed.In a stern observation, Goa bench of the High Court of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ashish Chavan said the local panchayat had "failed to take suo motu cognisance" of the club and had taken "no action despite complaints."
The division bench directed the Goa government to file a detailed reply on the permissions granted to the nightclub.
The High Court, while fixing January 8 as the next date of hearing, pointed out that commercial operations were continuing in the structure despite it having been served a demolition order.
The original petition was filed after the December 6 tragedy by Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Sunil Divkar, the owners of the land on which the nightclub was operating.
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Advocate Rohit Bras de Sa, the lawyer representing the petitioner, was made amicus curiae in the matter and has been asked to file a detailed affidavit in the matter.
In their petition, Amonkar and Divkar highlighted "the alarming pattern of statutory violations that have remained inadequately addressed despite multiple complaints, inspections, show-cause notices, and even a demolition order".
They contended that these violations posed "immediate threats to public safety, ecological integrity, and the rule of law in the state of Goa."
Investigations by multiple agencies into the nightclub fire have revealed various irregularities, including lack of permissions to operate the nightclub.
The Goa police arrested five managers and staff members of the club, while co-owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra have been detained in Thailand after they fled the country.
