A man lost his life and his wife sustained severe injuries after a speeding car hit three bikes one after the other in the Murbanda area on Ramgarh-Bokaro road in Ramgarh district. Three others also sustained severe injuries in the mishap.

Rajrappa police officials said the car was going to Bokaro from Ramgarh and near Murubanda, around 15km from Ramgarh district headquarters, the driver lost his control and hit three bikes. Firstly it hit a bike, injuring a couple, Latif and Tahira of Raipura village in Gola block. Another bike rider sustained injuries.

Trying to escape, the car hit a bullet coming from the opposite direction. Rider Uttam Kumar, 30, a resident of sector-IX of Bokaro died and his wife Balika Devi, 25, sustained grievous leg injuries. The car was badly damaged.

The local residents caught the driver, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, who was drunk, but three of his friends managed to escape. Yadav said he was from Sonpura of Bihar. A few bottles of liquor and packets of dry fruits were found in the car. Yadav said he was going to the house of a relative in Bokaro when the incident took place.

Villagers blocked the road demanding compensation.

Assistant sub-inspectors Abhay Krishna Giri and Akhilesh Kumar Singh reached the spot and pacified the villagers, after which it was called off.

The injured were admitted to Ramgarh sadar hospital and the body was sent for postmortem.

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The crematorium land in Hazaribagh on Sunday Vishvendu Jaipuriar

Youth dies of snakebite

A youth, Shrawan Bhuiyan, died after his relatives took him to a sorcerer to get him treated for snakebite at Huntergunj in Chatra, late on Saturday evening.

Bhuiyan, 30, came to the house of his in-laws at Daha panchayat of Sarhachiya village and was bitten by a snake in a field there.

Sources said Bhuiyan’s father-in-law took him to a local sorcerer who claimed that he had removed the poison of the snake.

He was taken to another sorcerer after his condition deteriorated but was advised to go to Chatra sadar hospital, around 30km from there. However, he died on the way. The body was handed over to relatives on Sunday after a postmortem.

In an another case, an FIR was lodged in sadar police station against former head clerk Karthik Rana of Chatra sadar hospital and he was suspended for embezzlement of Rs 1.56 crore.

Rana had misused the funds sanctioned for the patients of the Mukhymantri Gambhir Beemari Upchar Yojna.

In Hazaribagh, villagers of Khapariawan in Katkamdag on Sunday gave a memorandum to deputy commissioner Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh, charging land

sharks with grabbing land belonging to a crematorium and Chhath ghat through fake documents.

Notices to ineligible ration card holders 

The Dhanbad district administration on Sunday served notices to 30 ineligible ration card holders involved in fraudulent drawal of ration from Public Distribution System shops.

The action was initiated after an inquiry conducted by the district supply department led by additional district magistrate (supply), Sandip Kumar Doraiburu.

Doraiburu said the withdrawal of rations by the ineligible card holders is the punishable offence under the Clause 7 of the Food Security Act.

“We have with us all the data on the illegal withdrawals,” said Doraiburu.

Jewellery shop looted in Bokaro

Three unidentified miscreants wearing Covid-19 protection masks looted gold jewellery from a Tirupati Jewellery Shop in Jainamore under Jaridih police station here on Sunday. Miscreants also fired at the owner of the jewellery shop, Vijay Kumar Gupta, but he had a lucky escape. This was the second incident of loot registered in the district on the day.

The loot occurred in broad daylight.

The circle inspector of Jaridih police station, Mohammad Rustam Khan, said the criminals fled towards Bokaro township and were aged between 25 and 28 years.

The second incident occurred in Budabandh under Pindrajora police station. Three miscreants in two different vehicles robbed Rs 70,000 from a resident who was going to purchase a buffalo. Police officials said they were conducting raids to nab the miscreants.

Restrictions on gutkha use

The deputy inspector general of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), S.S. Mishra, has issued strict orders prohibiting smoking and spitting of gutkha on the premises of Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL). Strict action will be taken against anyone caught doing so. Vendors and shops inside the plant, if found selling it secretly, will be banned for at least three months.

The Union home ministry has declared the BSL plant premises a non-smoking zone. The state government has also put a complete ban on sale of tobacco products.

Woman found Covid positive

One more Covid-19 case surfaced in Bokaro on Sunday when a 26-year-old woman from Saraswati Nagar in Chas Municipal Corporation area reported positive.

The woman has been shifted to Covid Ward of Bokaro General Hospital (BGH).

Her contact history is being traced.

Deputy commissioner Mukesh Kumar said a total of 13 cases were active in the district.

On Sunday, 200 samples were collected, of which 176 were sent to Patliputra Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Dhanbad, while investigation of 24 samples was done through to Truenet in Sadar Hospital.