Two sensational incidents rocked Mainpuri when a 40-year-old man was found murdered with his 19-year-old paramour and a 45-year-old woman was thrashed and shot dead outside a police outpost.
In the first incident, Ramsaran of Chandpura in Karhal area and Sheela of the same area were said to be having an affair. On Tuesday morning, the couple was found lying in a pool of blood inside Ramsaran's dairy. The couple was brutally hacked with sharp-edged weapons. The local police said that circumstantial evidences suggested that they might have been killed over some dispute. They, however, did not rule out the possibility of 'honour killing'. The bodies were sent for autopsy and investigations were on.
In the second incident, Aneesa Begum had gone to Agra Gate police outpost to complain about threat to her life from Wasim over a land dispute. While she was complaining to the cops present there, Wasim reached the outpost along with his mother and sister. They later thrashed Aneesa Begum and when she ran to save herself, Waseem fired four shots from a revolver, one of which hit her in the neck.
The woman was rushed to the district hospital by the locals where she was declared dead on arrival. The locals later overpowered Wasim and handed him over to the police, who had remained mute spectators till then. SP Sunil Kumar Saxena said that all the three culprits have been arrested and investigations were on to ascertain the details.
Meanwhile, one more woman was hacked to death by a youth in Sonebhadra over having several affairs.
Subash Maurya (28) of Vandawa Bazar in Patti area of Pratapgarh had gone to meet his paramour Prema Devi at Kurhal locality of Chopan on Tuesday morning. Munnan Tewari of Kurhal who also had a liaison with Prema, saw the couple together. He rushed back home, took an axe and later brutally hacked Prema to death. Subhash also suffered injuries while trying to save the woman. A case was registered against Tewari.