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Multiple Expressway Crashes, Two Suspected Poisonings and a String of Local Emergencies Trigger Ongoing Probes

Police, hospitals and forest and registration authorities have opened active inquiries after recent road fatalities, suspected poisonings, a retail murder, an aggressive urban monkey and a celebrity property challenge.

Overview

  • A moving private bus on the Yamuna Expressway caught fire overnight and the driver evacuated all 40 passengers without injuries, with officials saying a short circuit is suspected and fire and police teams examining the vehicle.
  • A mini bus collided with a truck on the Agra–Lucknow Expressway, leaving two passengers dead and about a dozen injured and prompting emergency transfers to SN Medical College as investigators reconstruct the crash.
  • Delhi police are probing two linked deaths after a man and woman were found unconscious in a parked car; both later died and officers recovered packets marked 'Selfos' while examining a possible connection to a earlier fatality in the woman’s family.
  • Separately, police in Delhi have taken CCTV and formed search teams in the Moti Nagar case after a woman named Shabnam was found murdered in a shop changing room and relatives identified a suspect named Suraj.
  • Local authorities are also handling a series of other public-safety incidents: Vadodara forest teams captured an aggressive monkey after a multi-day operation, Kanpur police collected evidence in a disputed sixth-floor fall, Kotwa police are investigating an elderly man’s buffalo-abuse complaint, and hearings have begun on Ramola Bachchan’s challenge to a 1993 gift deed for the Juhu bungalow 'Jalsa'.