MAGGIE ‘MANIAC’ DOCS SET ABLAZE SHOPS, VEHICLES OVER SNACK DENIAL
Doctors of Darbhanga Medical College Hospital, 200 km north from here resorted to large scale violence and arson at Laheriasarai early on Saturday as their demand for Maggie could not be met by the shopkeepers. They have shut down the outdoor patient departments and emergency services since 3 am.
Agitating doctors claimed they wanted Maggie from a general store outside the hospital premises, which was not made available to them.
Enraged over the denial of Maggie, young medicos allegedly set fire to general stores, four medical and chemist shops, an adjoining motor driving school and six vehicles parked nearby.
According to the complaint lodged by the Chemists and Druggists Association, they also set on fire four shopkeepers, who are admitted in the private hospitals.
Sub-divisional magistrate, Sparsh Gupta said that an FIR has been registered against six named medicos and three dozen unidentified boarders of the medical college hospital.
Sghahnawaj Khan, president of the druggists and chemists association in his FIR alleged the medicos were already drunk and were insisting on supply of Alprazolam tablets, a prohibited drug with the substance of intoxicants. He denied the claim of the doctors that the trouble started over the nondelivery of Maggie as claimed by the doctors.
The situation is still tense in town, police said.
7 killed in Delhi fire
Seven people, including three children, were killed in a blaze that ravaged through the shanties in northeast Delhi in the early hours of Saturday.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the kin of adult deceased, Rs 5 lakh in case of minor deceased, and Rs 25,000 to those whose shanties were gutted.
Two minors, Roshan (13) and his sister Dipika (9), of same family were killed in the fire.
Five other deceased were from another family identified as Babloo (32), Ranjit (25), Reshma (18), Priyanka (20), and Shahansha (10).
Santu, the 58-year-old grandfather of Roshan and Dipika, said, "The fire started around 12.30 am when we were sleeping. We have no idea from where and how it started. We have only one room. We came out of shanty when the fire broke out to save our lives." A senior official of the Delhi Fire Services said information regarding the blaze near pillar number 12 of Gokulpuri village was received at 1.03 am.
Thirteen fire-tenders were rushed to the spot, he said, adding that the fire was finally brought under control around 4 am. Seven charred bodies were recovered from the site, the official said. Around 60 shanties were affected and 30 of them were completely gutted, he added.