Teenagers held for medical store owner?s death

THE CHAKERI police on Sunday arrested two teenaged boys in connection of the death of a medical store owner at Patel Nagar under Chakeri police station. It may be recalled that around 11.30 pm on Saturday, a few youth entered into a scuffle with the medical store owner Rangeela Yadav when he refused to sell narcotic drugs to the youth. The drunken youngsters started pelting stones at the shop.

Published on: Jan 2, 2006, 24:11:00 IST

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THE CHAKERI police on Sunday arrested two teenaged boys in connection of the death of a medical store owner at Patel Nagar under Chakeri police station.
It may be recalled that around 11.30 pm on Saturday, a few youth entered into a scuffle with the medical store owner Rangeela Yadav when he refused to sell narcotic drugs to the youth. The drunken youngsters started pelting stones at the shop.

When Rangeela tried to resist, they started beating him. Later, when nearby shop owners were taking Rangeela to hospital on Saturday night, he succumbed to injuries while on way to hospital.

Following the death of Rangeela shop owners of the area got agitated and police was deployed in the area on Saturday night. Businessmen were demanding immediate arrest of the main accused and threatend to go on indefinite strike.
The youth while trying to escape from the spot also got injured when tempo on which they were traveling turned turtle and the injured youth were admitted to KPM hospital. However main accused reportedly managed top flee.

On Sunday, Chakeri police arrested two school going kids in this connection. Police has identified arrested youth as Shailendra alias Shailu, a student of class 10 and his cousin Shiv Bhan who is a student of class 11.

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