Palwal
“I just cannot believe it. What has happened is completely shocking as my sister-in-law was innocent,” says Mohammed Irfan (28), a resident of Buraka village. Anjum, wife of his cousin Hanish, a government teacher, had come to attend her sister-in-law who had been admitted to a private hospital for delivery a couple of days ago.

Anjum (34), a mother of three minor children, had reached the hospital in the noon and had decided to stay overnight with her relatives. She was asleep in the corridor just outside the ward when she was hit with a rod till she died, he said. “Who will now take care of her nine-month-old baby and two other children aged four and nine who are waiting for her at home in Buraka,” he said with tears rolling down. He said the police had handed over her body, but he was unable to take her to the village in this condition.

Inconsolable over the death of his uncle Subhash (42), a guard, Raju said that Subhash belonged to Sikohabad in UP and he was the sole bread earner of his family of four.

He said no one ever could think of such an unfortunate death of a hardworking person who was still in his prime age. “The night watchmen here who are mainly emigrants are shocked over the incident,” he said.

“We are still looking for relatives of two persons, including one who was done to death in his sleep on the side of a road, for handing over their bodies after the post-mortem,” said an employee of the Civil Hospital here.

Describing it as a black day in the history of the city, local MLA Karan Singh Dalal, however, blamed it on alleged laxity on the part of the police. He said that the accused, Naresh Dhankar, could have been arrested the previous night as a complaint of molestation was lodged by a woman, a resident of his colony, last evening.