4 Boys Kill Watchman, Escape From Observation Home In Chhattisgarh

 Four inmates of a government-run observation home, aged between 18 and over 20 years, allegedly strangled to death a 40-year-old watchman and escaped from the facility in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district in the early hours of Monday, officials said.The four were juveniles when they allegedly committed criminal offences and were detained at the correctional home under the Juvenile Justice Act, but continued to remain at the residential facility, officially known as 'place of safety', even after attaining adulthood, they explained.The incident occurred at around 2 am at the government-run facility under the Sarkanda police station limits, Bilaspur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajnesh Singh said.The victim, Narendra Kumar Khande, was a resident of Araiband village in the Takhatpur area of the district and worked as a watchman on contractual basis, he said.According to preliminary investigation, the four inmates allegedly assaulted Khande, tied his hands and legs, gagged him by stuffing a…