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| Two "burglars" charred to death in a shop fire at Vijaypur | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 25:
A cop-turned-press reporter broke into the cloth shop of his father-in-law at Vijaypur late Wednesday night along with his
cousin hardly knowing that it was the death that had driven them there.
In the fire that broke out under "mysterious"circumstances while they were in the shop, the bodies of Bhupinder Singh of Kamore, Ramgarh, and his cousin Pawan Kumar of Ward No 12, Vijaypur, were charred beyond recognition, police sources said.
Bhupinder's identity was established on the basis of his unburnt PAN card and that of Pawan on the basis of his identity card. A half-burnt press card of a local daily
English newspaper was also recovered from Bhupinder's wallet.While Bhupinder was an ex-cop, Pawan was among the excise guards who were ousted by the erstwhile PDP-Congress government for their alleged backdoor appointments.Pawan was unemployed, while Bhupinder, who was son-in-law of
the burnt shop's owner Krishan Lal Choudhary, worked with a local daily newspaper and also with a private finance company
in Jammu, the sources added.
Though the concerned police preferred not to comment on the motive of the duo to enter the shop, sources said it seemed to
be burglary.
Pawan's motorcycle (JK02AG/8881) was found abandoned at an unfrequented place near the Viajypur Canal by cops this evening.Sources said after parking mobike near the canal, Pawan and Bhupinder walked to Krishan's Chhamb Cloth House, about 100 mt off the Jammu-Pathankote National Highway.
The shop has a small room constructed over it. From there, stairs lead inside the shop. Sources said they entered the shop after breaking locks of this room at about 11.30 pm or so.
The recovery of some liquor pouches from underneath the half-burnt cloth sheets suggested that they had consumed liquor there.
As a LPG cylinder was kept in the shop daily by a cloth dyer, it seemed as if it was already leaking or they fiddled with it under the influence of liquor leading to the leakage of gas.Sources said the gas must have caused them suffocation and then in a bid to get out in the open air, they must have lit a
match stick as a result of which the gas caught fire.The cloth and furniture items in the shop were up in flames within no time and both of them were burnt alive. The fire also triggered an explosion in the LPG cylinder which probably led to the breaking of the iron shutter.
The flames also enveloped a Scorpio (JK02AE/8000), which was parked just outside the shop, burning it completely. It belonged to one Raj Kumar Gupta of Vijaypur.The matter was brought to the notice of police and fire brigade by some locals who first saw the flames billowing from
the shop.Four to five fire tenders, which were pressed into service at about 12.30 am, brought the flames under control, stopping
them from spreading to the nearby shops. The fire was extinguished completely in the morning.Estimated loss was put at over Rs 60 lakh. Police have
registered a case in this connection and started investigations.
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