Principal of Sanskrit Degree College was shot dead in a sensational shoot-out in Aligarh on Friday night. The killing said to have taken place in connection with land dispute. Family members also named the opposite party Man Pratap Singh and seven of his cohorts and efforts were on by the local police to lay a trap on them.
Reports said that 58-year-old Harbeer Singh aka Budhdev, principal of Sanskrit Degree College situated on Aligarh-Bulundshahr highway at Harduwaganj locality of Aligarh, was taking a stroll after dinner of Friday when some unknown miscreants led by Man Pratap Singh, waylaid him. The miscreants hurled abuses and later opened indiscriminate fire and killed the principal on the spot.
Some passers-by informed the incident to the police and also took the victim to near-by hospital but he was pronounced dead upon arrival. Meanwhile eight persons also died in two separate cases of road mishaps reportedly from Agra and Sitapur. In first incident reported from Agra, four women of a family were killed and 18 others injured when a tractor-trolley turned turtle on Agra-Jaipur highway near Roopvas on Friday. The victims, all from Moosalpur village near Jagner townof Agra district, were going to Nagla Bale village near Fatehpur Sikri to condole the death of a relative when the accident occurred. The injured have been admitted to a hospital in Bharatpur and seven of them are stated to be in critical condition. The deceased were identified as
Badodevi (65), Ramdulari (58), Phoolwati (40) and Asharfi (35). In another incident reported from Sitapur, four persons, including two women, were killed and 12 others injured when a bus overturned in Sakran area on Saturday. All the four deceased along with other victims, who could not be identified, were traveling ina private bus from Bisva to leharpur when it overturned at Maharajnagar village. The injured were admitted to primary health centre.