Overview

• Police recovered the bodies of homeowner Vijay Kumar Maurya, his wife Dheeraj Kumari, their two daughters, and two local teenagers from a burned house in Teperaha village on Wednesday morning.
• Sub-inspector Ayodhya Singh said the teenagers, identified as Sunny Verma and Suraj Yadav, were found with fatal throat injuries in one room.
• Officers reported two open gas cylinders inside the burned area, with autopsies and fire forensics underway to determine the sequence of events.
• Villagers alleged the teens had been working for Maurya on garlic planting and suggested a work dispute, a claim investigators are treating as a lead rather than a conclusion.
• Senior officials, including the district magistrate, the SP and the DIG, visited the scene, and police noted that four cattle also died in the blaze.