FB friends' meet-up in hotel ends in bloody mess

Lucknow: This night in Naka hotel room was not spent well. The chaos that unfolded on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday ended only after police came calling. Two male friends had booked a room in a hotel near Charbagh. One of them was injured severely and was undergoing treatment at KGMU's trauma centre.
Around 12.30am on Saturday, a sales tax department clerk posted in Pilibhit booked a room at the hotel in Gurunanak market.He checked in along with a male friend. While the clerk is aged about 26, his friend, a resident of Bazarkhala, is 24 and works with an NGO. The two came in contact on Facebook last year and had met frequently thereafter.
All was well up to 3.30am when the hotel reception got a frantic phone call. The youth from Pilibhit said on phone that his friend would end up doing something terrible if help did not arrive immediately and he said he had been confined to the room.
The hotel staff alerted police control room and rushed to the hotel. The room had to be opened forcibly. The scene was gory. The Lucknow youth was bleeding profusely. Blood was oozing out of his arms and neck. A razor blade as well as a kitchen knife had apparently been used to inflict injuries.
Circle officer of Qaiserbagh area, DySP Abhay Nath Tripathi and officer-in-charge of Naka police station reached the hotel and started grilling the Pilibhit youth. Meanwhile, the injured youth was rushed to KGMU's trauma centre. During questioning, police learned that though the two met on a cordial note but the Lucknow youth got upset.
"The youth we questioned said he was taking an early morning train back to Pilibhit via Bareilly but his friend did not like the plan and threatened to injure himself," said Tripathi, sharing preliminary investigations.
The injured youth's parents were informed and his father was taken aback to hear what had happened. On Friday evening, he left home under the pretext of going to Delhi for work and had taken a bag with himself. Later, his parents lodged a complaint to Naka police station. Naka police station officer Dhirendra Yadav said a case had been lodged against the Pilibhit youth under section 307 which amounts to attempt to murder.
"The injured youth's father held the Pilibhit man responsible for the attack. The Lucknow youth is recuperating and his statement will decide further course of action," said Yadav.
Meanwhile, the sales tax clerk from Pilibhit was detained for questioning and police noted down his permanent address. Police found he had got the job early this year and the conversation between the two began on social media after they met on a community page and appreciated each other's display photographs.