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Meerut was rocked with a sensational dacoity and murder of a septuagenarian trader and his wife, whose bodies were found lying in pools of blood on Sunday morning.
As per reports, Satyendra Garg aka `Shakti’ (70) used to run a general merchant shop from his house in Rasoolpur Dhuladi in Jani area of Meerut and stayed with his wife Sarita as both their sons were placed outside.
On Sunday morning, a local residents reached Shakti’s shop and found a door open but the shop being closed. He called Shakti but when no one responded, he peeped inside and was shocked to find the old man’s body lying on floor. He raised an alarm and was soon joined by other locals. As they entered the house, they found Sarita also lying dead in another room. Circumstantial evidences pointed that the couple were targeted by assailants for looting cash and ornaments.
The police were probing the matter and tracking down the killers.
Meanwhile in Kushninagar, a girl killed her mother for her liaison with a local boy, on Saturday night.
As per reports, Vidyawati of Pipriyatola hamlet under Khadda police station used to oppose her daughter Sandhya’s affair with a local youth. On Saturday night, as Sandhya was walking out of the house to meet her beau, her mother objected and asked her to stay home. This resulted in a face-off between the mother and daughter. Later an agitated Sandhya took out a sharp-edged weapon and attacked her mother.
Hearing Vidyawati’s screams for help, some neighbours rushed to her house and found Sandhya with the murder weapon, They later nabbed her and handed her to the police.
A case was registered and Vidyawati’s body was sent for autopsy.
Elsewhere in Jaunpur, a 23-years-old woman, who was in quarantine, died under mysterious circumstances. Vandana of Kudhuwa hamlet had eloped with Chhotelal Nishad about five months back as her family members were against her marriage as the youth was from a different caste. The two married in a Faridabad court and started working there. However, due to lockdown, the couple along with three others returned from Delhi to their native place on April 16. Later they were quarantined in a primary school in Meerganj. However, on Saturday night, Vandana was found dead in the quarantine centre’s toilet.
After preliminary probe, the police said that they found a dark ligature mark on her neck indicating towards possible strangulation. It also surfaced that Vandana had heated arguments regularly with her husband Chhotelal in the quarantine centre.
A case was registered and investigations are on. The cops are waiting for autopsy report.