Etawah sealed to trace Mulayam kin

Lucknow (PTI): Police launched a massive hunt on Sunday and sounded a high alert to trace the abducted two-year-old kin of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Shubham, the grandson of Mulayam Singh’s cousin Hakam Singh Yadav, went missing on Saturday evening from the Civil Lines area in Etawah district along with a domestic help.

An alert has been sounded in the district and all exit points sealed, the police said, adding that trains, buses and other vehicles were being thoroughly checked.

Senior police officials, including ADG (law and order) Bua Singh, are in Etawah monitoring the investigations.

Shubham had gone out to play with the domestic help, employed a few days ago, and when he did not return home till late in the evening, the family went to the police.

Reports said the family had received a ransom call but the police did not confirm this.

Former Tamil Nadu governor Bhisma Narayan Singh’s grandson Vikrant, who was kidnapped from Patna in December, was released by abductors at a lonely spot on the Gopalganj-Muzaffarpur highway in Gopalganj district late on Saturday night.

Senior superintendent of police, Patna, Nayyer Hussain Khan, said the abductors left Vikrant, a Class VII student, near Baraia Chowk and vanished. They also gave him Rs 100 for his journey back home.

Doctors’ strike intensifies

Patna: Services at the Patna Medical College and Hospital have been thrown out of gear with junior doctors going on an indefinite strike late on Saturday night, reports our special correspondent.

Unconfirmed reports of junior doctors at Darbhanga Medical and Hospital, too, going on strike are also coming in.

The doctors are demanding an increase in their monthly stipend, which is a paltry Rs 5,000 — much less than that given to junior doctors in other institutions.

The president of Patna Medical College and Hospital’s junior doctors’ association, Gauhar Alam, claimed that nearly 600 of his colleagues have joined the strike. Health ministry officials said the government was “positively considering” a proposal to increase the stipend of junior doctors and appealed to them to call off the agitation.

The association has also sought boarding facilities for all junior doctors on the campus, but the government is silent on this demand.

Politician killed in shootout

Orai (Uttar Pradesh) (PTI): Three persons, including a Samajwadi Party leader, were killed when police opened fire on a mob pressing for the release of some traders arrested on Saturday.

Inspector Dev Dutt Rathore, the incharge of Konch police station, and his son opened fire on the mob killing two persons on the spot. Another succumbed to injuries in hospital. Samajwadi leader Surendra Niranjan was among the dead, police said.

Rathore, his son and two constables were arrested in connection with the firing.

Valley highway

Jammu (PTI): The Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, was reopened to one-way traffic to Srinagar on Sunday. Over a hundred vehicles had been stranded after Thursday’s landslides on the Bannihal-Ramban highway stretch.

Waiter crushed

New Delhi (PTI): An 18-year-old waiter was crushed to death in a lift at a banquet hall here. Bharat, who was working with Gola banquet hall in Model Town got trapped in a lift at 5 pm on Saturday. As he tried to come out of the lift, the power was suddenly restored and the lift crushed him to death.

Passengers looted

Kanpur (PTI): Ornaments and cash worth Rs 1,00,000 were looted from passengers of a bus in Kanpur Dehat district. When the bus reached Chhaveni village on Friday, four persons with pistols looted the passengers.

Jailbreak remand

Chandigarh (PTI): A local court has extended the police remand of Burail jail superintendent D.S. Rana and six others till Tuesday in a jailbreak which led to the escape of three accused in the Beant Singh assassination.

One killed in fire

Chapra (PTI): A 70-year-old retired government official was burnt to death after a fire broke out in his hut at the New Market area in Bihar’s Saran district. The hut has been completely gutted, the police said. An FIR has been filed.

The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has rescued a four-year-old camel that had been brought to Mumbai for slaughter on the occasion of Bakr-Id. The camel was rescued from Dongri in south Mumbai on Saturday amid resistance from local people.