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Yadav, sub-inspector at Raya police station of the Mathura district.

The Raya police had to arrange equipment to cut across the mangled remains of the car to pull out the bodies trapped in it.

However, exact reason behind the accident is yet to be worked out. The rear part of the car is totally damaged after ramming into the tanker. “The damaging of rear part of the car has made the matter complex and needs to be worked out,” said Yadav.

Meanwhile, SP (Rural) for Mathura Aditya Shukla declined to assign any exact reason for accident. “The car had smashed into the tanker and was pulled out after much effort. Exact reasons are yet to be worked,” he said.

“It appears that driver might have applied sudden brakes in moving car which made it spin and then it smashed into the tanker,” said a local. nomic, territorial, or economic – then my position is very clear. The central government must take the consent of the state assembly... If the assembly agrees unanimously, we can say go ahead,” Singh said. He went beyond Manipur’s bottom-line -that its boundaries not be changed -- and opposed creation of councils that bypassed the state government in any way. “We cannot allow someone else to come and develop on their own. There is a state government. Whatever has to be taken up must be through the state government.”

Singh said that he had spoken to both senior figures in the Sangh parivar and the party leadership to explain Manipur’s position and hinted some in the security establishment were pushing the deal, ‘without understanding the realities of Manipur’.