Villagers visit Junaid’s family for a fresh start
Dozens of villagers from Bhamrola and surrounding areas marched to Junaid Khan’s home in Khandawali village on Saturday to put aside their differences and make a fresh start after the lynching of 16-year-old on a Mathura-bound local train.
Bhamrola is the village from where Naresh Kumar, the main accused in the case, hailed. Kumar was arrested from Dhule district of Maharashtra last Saturday.
The GRP said that they had even recovered the knife that was used to stab Junaid on the Mathura-Delhi-Ghaziabad EMU train.
On Saturday, around 20 to 25 elders from the committee assembled in a farmhouse of a local political leader on Mathura road near Sikri village around 10am and proceeded towards Khandawali village, which is almost one and half kilometers away from NH2.
Khandawali village is the home of Junaid Khan.
After reaching Khandawali,the committee members expressed condolences to Junaid’s bereaved family.
The elders told Junaid’s father Jalal-u-din and other members that they shared their sorrow for the June 22 incident. Jalal-u-din, in turn, welcomed the committee members saying he was happy to witness this gesture from the committee that was constituted after arrest of the main accused.
“I knew some of the committee members. This gesture is definitely going to strengthen har- mony between the two communities,” Jalal-u-din said.
“We are very close to the people of Khandawali and this longstanding relation made things easy for all the committee members to visit the grief-stricken family”, said Sanjay Daggar, a social activist-cum-political leader.
“We expressed grief and paid emphasis on strengthening communal brotherhood”, said Mahinder Singh Sehrawat of Hathin, who was part of the delegation.
“Bhaicharai ko mazboot rakhna hai (The brotherhood needs to be strong among us),” he told Junaid’s family. The recent fire at a residential building in east Delhi, which led to the death of four persons, is a grim reminder of the price that we pay for ignoring fire safety. And I refer here particularly to residential fires.
In fact the latest data on fire accidents in the country, put out by the National Crime Records Bureau (Accidental Deaths and Suicides, 2015), should give us enough cause for concern.
There were as many as 18,450 accidental fires in the country during 2015, resulting in 17,700 deaths and 1,193 injuries.
About 42 per cent of these deaths were on account of fires in residential buildings or dwelling units.
Another alarming information from the data is that fires due to electrical short circuits have gone up sharply, by as much as 40.9 per cent in the last one year. The recent residential fire is also reported to have been caused by an electrical short circuit.
Even though the single largest cause of fire in the country is cooking gas cylinder/stove burst (3390 cases during 2015) , the second largest cause is electrical short circuit. And accidents caused by short circuits have gone up from 1764 in 2014 to 2485 in 2015. While the National Disaster management Authority, Government of India, in its hazard profiling of New Delhi, says that 70 per cent of the fires in Delhi were on account of short circuiting caused by illegal connections and low quality of wiring, a fire audit of 50 DDA colonies last year by the Delhi Fire Services, points
VILLAGE FROM WHERE MAIN ACCUSED NARESH KUMAR HAILED REACH OUT TO JUNAID KHAN’S FAMILY, OFFER CONDOLENCES