Med Board conducts autopsy at GMC Rajouri
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 13: Four persons, including two students and a woman and her two-year-old son, were killed in two separate road accidents in Samba and Rajouri districts today.
Reports from Samba said that Sunny Kumar (19) from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, and Joginder Kumar (19) from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, both Class-12 students, were killed on the spot after a school bus hit their motorcycle near Sarore Adda in Samba district at 2.40 pm today.
The driver of the school bus abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene after the accident. Sunny and Joginder, whose parents work in the Bari Brahmana Industrial Estate, were on their way to Samba when the accident occurred, the officials said, adding that a hunt is on to trace and arrest the bus driver. The eye-witnesses said that bike riders were coming from wrong side.
Meanwhile, a tragic incident occurred in the remote Khawas area of Kotranka Sub-Division, in Rajouri district, between 1:00 am and 2:00 am on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday when a Mahindra XUV-300 vehicle, bearing Registration number 24BH-5324C, in which a mother and her two-year-old child lost their lives.
According to police sources, the accident took place when Baljit Singh, a resident of the area, was returning home from Kotranka along with his wife Lalita Devi and their child Krish (2 yrs). Due to continuous rain, the road had become slippery, and their vehicle reportedly skidded off the road at a turn and rolled down about 300 feet deep gorge.
Local residents, assisted by the Army and police, carried out a rescue operation during the night and shifted all the occupants to the Government Hospital, Khawas.
Doctors at the hospital declared Lalita Devi and her two-year-old son Krish as dead, while Baljit Singh, critically injured, was referred to GMC Jammu for advanced treatment.
However, the incident took a new turn when relatives of the deceased woman alleged foul play. They claimed it was a case of murder and that the bodies had been thrown into the gorge to stage it as an accident. The family questioned how the occupants could have died if the vehicle had no visible major damage.
In response to the allegations, police assured the family that every angle of the case was being thoroughly investigated. “If there is any foul play, the truth will definitely come out,” police officials stated. For further investigation, the bodies of Lalita Devi and her son were sent to GMC Rajouri, where a special Medical Board conducted post-mortem examinations. After completing the necessary legal formalities, the bodies were handed over to the family for last rites.
Police have registered a case and are continuing their probe into the incident.
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