A farmer was found hanging from a tree near Dhakpura village under Bharthana police station of Amroha.
The police suspect that the victim committed suicide but the family members claim that he was murdered over a land dispute.
Interestingly, the Bharthana police and cops of Kudarkot police station also had a dispute over the jurisdiction of the incident spot as the victim was a resident of Kudarkot area but his body was recovered in the jurisdiction of Bharthana police station. After the local villagers staged a protest, the cops of Bharthana police station took cognisance after three hours and sent the body for autopsy.
Reports said that Laxmi Narayan, a 66-year-old farmer residing in Majra Padampur village of Bharthana lived in his farm house while other members of the family live in a house built in the village. On Sunday morning, people saw his body hanging from a tree at some distance from Lakshmi Narayan’s bungalow. The legs were bent and there were also injury marks on the body, claimed the relatives who reached the spot after learning about Narayan’s death. The relatives alleged that Narayan was having a land dispute with some people of the village and the neighbours had also threatened to kill him on Saturday evening.
The relatives and villagers also staged a protest, claiming that the victim was murdered and later his body was hanged from a tree to make it a case of suicide.
According to reports, in 1975-76, the then village head had given a lease of two and a half bighas of land to Narayan’s family and they used to do farming on it. Some villagers were trying to grab this land and had regular fights with Narayan. His son had complained about this several times to the local police. The cops also sent one of the accused to jail a few months back but last week, he was released on bail. On Saturday evening, an agreement was made by calling both the parties to the house of Vinod Yadav, the former head of Garhwana panchayat in Pakka Tal.
Meanwhile, four people from the other side went away from there. Narayan and his son Shiv Poojan left the house at Pakka Tal at around 8:30. While Narayan went to the farm house, his son returned home. It seems that the accused killed Narayan sometime in the night.
The police sent the body for post-mortem and were making further investigations.
Meanwhile, in a tragic incident reported from Amroha, the wall of an under-construction cinema hall collapsed on Sunday morning, killing two labourers and injuring half a dozen others.
Reports said that due to rains, the wall of the under-construction cinema hall in City Kotwali area of Amroha suddenly collapsed and four labourers were trapped under the rubble while three others were injured. The police removed the rubble and shifted the injured to hospital where two were pronounced dead.
In Pilibhit, a youth was electrocuted to death in Naveen Mandi area. Reports said that Armaan of Ahmednagar Nagar went to supply mangoes in the Naveen Mandi on Saturday morning when he came in contact with a live wire. He was rushed to hospital where he succumbed later in the night.
In Deoria Kalan area of Pilibhit district, a youth, identified as Lokesh, died due to electrocution when he came in contact with a live wire while he was changing the pump of his cooler on Saturday night.