Two brothers were found dead with their throats slit in Deoria on Wednesday, the police said.
Both the brothers were brutally hacked to death. The local police rushed to the spot and arrested the stepmother and her son on allegations that they had killed both over property dispute. A knife and a dagger were recovered from the spot.
As per Deoria’s Superintendent of Police Shripati Mishra, Srinavas, a resident of Devtaha Chitai village, works in Dubai and has two wives — Mansa Devi and Kusum. He had two sons Ajay (18) and Abhisekh (15) from his first wife and one son, Raju, from his second wife.
Mishra said that the incident came into light when around 5 am on Wednesday, Mansa Devi found both her sons lying on their beds with their throats slit. Their clothes were soaked in blood. Mansa Devi immediately raised an alarm following which the local residents came and both were taken to the hospital where the doctors pronounced them dead.
Circle Officer of Rudrapur, Jilajeet, who also visited the spot, claimed that the preliminary investigation showed that around 5 am in the morning, the accused stepmother Kusum along with her son Raju and daughter-in-law Archana committed the murders when Devi was not at home.
The three accused were arrested and the bodies were sent for post-mortem.
According to a police spokesman, the motive behind the murders, revealed during preliminary investigation, was property dispute.
The father of the deceased had two wives and the dispute was between the victims, Ajay and Abhishek, and their stepbrother, Raju.
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