Lucknow: Three persons with AIDS killed by kin

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LUCKNOW: A 45-year-old farmer, his wife and son were allegedly killed by their

relatives after it was discovered that they had full-blown AIDS.

Jilajeet, the farmer, took ill about two years back and after regular treatment

by the local doctors failed to help, he went to Baba Raghav Das Medical College

(BRDMC) in Gorakhpur where he was admitted for a complete medical check-up

following complaints of sustained fever and acute weight loss. Here he was

tested HIV positive in May 2007.

Jilajeet was discharged from the hospital after being prescribed medication

spreading over the next six months. Despite taking the medicines regularly, his

condition continued to deteriorate to the extent that he was rendered bed ridden

in December 2007.

Unable to meet the expenses incurred while he was admitted to the hospital, he

requested the doctors to discharge him but he regularly visited the BRDMC as an

out-patient, said sub inspector (SI) RP Kannaujiya - incharge of Chapiya police

station talking to TOI on phone.

The Yadavs suffered another jolt when Jilajeet's wife Madna too tested HIV

positive in January. The worst came for the family when their son Kallu too

tested positive about a fortnight ago and took ill.

Already under debt and with no source of income at all, Jilajeet finally visited

the hospital in Gorakhpur on July 24 last and returned hopeless, deciding not to

continue with the medical treatment any. He returned home disillusioned with

absolutely no money in hand.

According to Madna's father Ram Sunder Yadav, Jilajeet, Madna and Kallu were

rendered as outcaste by his family who feared that they would also catch the

disease if they interacted with them.

Eventually on Sunday morning, the trio was murdered by Jilajeet's brothers and

their bodies cremated without informing the near and dear ones including Madna's

parents.

When Madna's family members came to know about the incident, they lodged a

complaint with the Chapiya police station of Gonda accusing Jilajeet's brothers

Rajaram and Munna of murdering the three, said SO Chapiya RP Kannaujiya.

Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Gonda Manik Chandra Saroj, however,

claimed that during initial investigations the accused have claimed that

Jilajeet and his family had committed suicide and that they simply went ahead

with the cremation without informing the parents of Madna.

" They however failed to explain why they did not inform the police as deaths in

suicides merit a full-fledged police investigations, " ASP Saroj said adding that

since the bodies of the deceased have been cremated there was nothing which

could help to establish the exact cause of death of the three victims.

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