Two women among 4 Bengaluru tourists found hanging at dharmshala in Bihar's Rajgir
Patna (PTI): Four tourists, including two women, from Bengaluru were found hanging in their room at a dharmshala in Bihar’s Nalanda district on Friday, a police official said.
The incident occurred in Rajgir town, a major pilgrimage site for both Buddhists and Jains.
The police broke open the door of their room and found the four tourists dead.
Rajgir DSP Sunil Kumar Singh said, “At around 9:40 am, the manager of the dharmshala informed the Rajgir police station that some people had arrived from Bengaluru and were staying in a room. A foul smell was emanating from that room.”
Singh said that when the police personnel, in the presence of a magistrate, entered the room, the four were found hanging.
The DSP said that mobile phones were seized from the incident spot, and it was ascertained from the phone numbers that they were from the southern metropolis.
Singh added that the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team in Patna was called for inspection.
He added that efforts were being made to contact the family members of the deceased.
“After the forensic team's investigation and post-mortem examination, further legal action will be taken,” the DSP said.
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BJP alleges illegal coal trade thriving under Jharkhand govt
Ranchi (PTI): Jharkhand BJP president Aditya Sahu on Friday alleged that illegal coal trade was flourishing in the state under the patronage of the JMM-led government.
Addressing reporters at the party office here, Sahu claimed that police station in-charges and district administrations in areas where illegal coal trading was taking place were involved and being protected by the state government.
He said Jharkhand did not belong to any party or family but to its 3.5 crore people.
Sahu was responding to Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s remarks made at a programme in Koderma on Thursday that the mineral-rich state contributed to the country’s development with coal, iron, mica and other resources but remained backward, forcing its people to live in poverty.
The BJP leader said if Jharkhand provided coal, other states contributed other resources and such an exchange would continue.
He demanded that the chief minister should explain what his government had done over the last six years, claiming that only false promises had been made to the people.
Rejecting Sahu's allegations, the Congress, an alliance partner of the JMM-led government in the state, said before pointing fingers at others, BJP leaders should introspect themselves.
"How the BJP has suddenly become so concerned about traders, when during their own rule, the state's resources were openly looted and illegal coal trade received political patronage. Even today, BJP MPs and leaders' names continue to surface in coal trade matters. The BJP leadership should first answer for this," Satish Paul Munjani, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee media chairman, alleged.
He added that the allegations leveled by the BJP state president against Hemant Soren are nothing but political desperation.
"The Congress and the state government are committed to Jharkhand's development. Each and every misinformation by the BJP will be countered," Munjani said.
