Passing on information about a suspected coronavirus patient led to the murder of a woman in Mainpuri while a street vendor was killed for not serving ‘chaat’ during lockdown in Lakhimpur Kheri.
In Mainpuri, Vinay Yadav of Annipur hamlet of Kurra was engaged as a rojgar sewak. On Tuesday, Army personnel Shailendra Yadav and his cab driver brother Gaurav Yadav of New Delhi returned home. Suspecting them to be afflicted by the coronavirus, Vinay included their names as visitors from outside and gave it to the local authorities for action.
On coming to know about this, Shailendra threatened Vinay to remove his and Gaurav’s name from the list, but the latter refused and asked them to go for medical check-up for the safety of other villagers.
On Wednesday morning, things got ugly when Shailendra, Gaurav and other kin struck at Vinay’s house and opened fire in which Vinay’s sister-in-law Sandhya Yadav (32) was killed. Before the police reached the crime scene, the assailants escaped.
A case was registered and efforts were being made to nab the accused.
In Lakhimpur Kheri, Chhotu aka Mauseem of Mudiya Khera hamlet of Kotwali area used to sell ‘chaat’ in the neighbourhood. However, due to lockdown, he had suspended his business.
On Tuesday, his neighbours Raunak, Lal, Mohammed and six others pressed him to prepare ‘chaat’. But when Chhotu refused to do so, they barged into his house and hacked him to death. A case was registered and efforts were on to nab the assailants.
In a separate case in Bulandshahr, a 30-year-old woman, who was seven-month pregnant, torched herself along with her two children after a tiff with her husband.
Vikram aka Bobby of Bardauli used to run a sweet shop in Delhi. Due to lockdown, he returned home two days back. On Wednesday morning, he had a tiff with his wife Pushpa after which the woman locked herself along with her sons Himanshu (8) and Niyanshu (3), poured kerosene and set themselves fire.
The locals somehow rescued them and rushed them to a hospital but all the three died on way.
Meanwhile in Jaunpur, a youth was murdered while a couple ended their lives in Agra.
In Jaunpur, the body of a youth with bullet wounds was found near Pili Kothi area of Line Bazaar on Wednesday morning. It seemed that the victim was killed somewhere else and the body was dumped there.
The victim was later identified as Utkarsh Dikshit (21) of Puranpur area of Kairakat in Jaunpur. His father, Jai Chand Dikshit, said that his son went missing on Tuesday evening.
A case was registered and investigations are on.
In the Agra, 22-year-old jeweller Gopal Sharma and his wife Priya (18) were found hanging from the ceiling of their bedroom in Ram Swaroop Colony of Shahganj on Tuesday afternoon.
They had tied the knot on January 18 last.
The family members failed to give any reason for the extreme step.
The bodies were sent for autopsy and the girl’s family at Firozabad was informed about the tragedy.