{"id":319550,"date":"2020-01-31T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319550"},"modified":"2020-01-31T04:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T04:53:04","slug":"up-hostage-horror-accused-wife-succumbs-to-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/up-hostage-horror-accused-wife-succumbs-to-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"UP hostage horror: Accused wife succumbs to injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-319551 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/up-horror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/up-horror.jpg 338w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/up-horror-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/up-horror-303x420.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/>The wife of an Uttar Pradesh man, who held over 20 children hostage, has died of injuries after being thrashed by neighbours, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The woman succumbed to her injuries on Friday morning after beaten up by locals. She was admitted to a hospital in critical condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, over 20 children were taken hostage by a murder accused in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Farrukhabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He invited children to his daughter\u2019s birthday party and took them hostage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When the children did not return to their respective houses, some of his neighbours knocked at his door but once they realized that the children had been taken hostage, the police were called.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The accused fired from inside the house on those who tried to speak to him, the police said, adding that a man and two policemen suffered a bullet injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath monitored the situation in Farrukhabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Batham was a murder accused and he seemed to be mentally unstable, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After 9-hour\u00a0long standoff, the accused was killed in an encounter, and the police rescued all 23 children.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of an Uttar Pradesh man, who held over 20 children hostage, has died of injuries after being thrashed by neighbours, sources said. The woman succumbed to her injuries on Friday morning after beaten up by locals. She was admitted to a hospital in critical condition. On Thursday, over 20 children were taken hostage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[4844,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319552,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319550\/revisions\/319552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}