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As many as 200 residents of Bhauri village have been booked for looting and ransacking the office of a mining contractor, accused of burying two kids alive in connivance with a son of a BJP MLA.

SHO of Baundi police station, Atal Thakur today said that 50 people have been named in the FIR, while 150 unidentified people have been booked.

Yesterday, an FIR was registered against MLA Subhash Tripathi's son Nishank Tripathi and mining contractor Manoj Shukla on the charge of murder and under SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act.

The MLA, however, had refuted the allegation levelled against his son and termed it as a "conspiracy", while district administration had constituted a three-member committee consisting of the SDM, mining officer and the police's circle officer to probe the matter.
 

Bodies of Karan (10) and Nisar (11) were found yesterday in a drain in the village, adjacent to a place where mining was going on, following which irate villagers damaged the vehicles of contractors involved in the mining work.

In his complaint to the police, Chetram, the father of Karan, a Dalit, had said Nishank and Shukla were digging sand from his field instead of the area alloted to them.

According to Chetram, on facing resistance, they buried alive the two children by putting sand on them with the help of a bulldozer, the police had said.

However, the SHO of Baundi police station, where the FIR was registered, had said that postmortem report says that the two died due to drowning.

The BJP MLA from Payagpur constituency of Bahraich refuted the charge against his son and said, "A conspiracy is being hatched against my son. If charges are proved I will quit politics forever.