Mystery shrouds over death of a minor girl and her lover whose bodies were recovered in Unnao on Friday night. local police and the family members of the girl claimed that the accused first killed the girl and later ended his life. However, the youth’s family suspected it to be a case of Rs honour killing’. A case has been registered in this regard and both the bodies were sent for post-mortem examination. Further investigations are on to find out the truth.
Reports said that the marriage of two daughters of Rajaram, a class four employee at Sub-divisional magistrate’s office in Hardoi was taking place at his native village Kesari Kheda in Purwa locality of Unnao on last Thursday night. However the happy atmosphere suddenly turned sad when one Mithlesh Bala, son of a local resident Babu lal, along with three of his cohorts struck at the venue in filmi style and reportedly waived weapons threatening everyone with dire consequences. later the miscreants pulled Rajaram’s 15-year-old daughter Rita from the Rs Mandap’ and kidnapped her. It may be mentioned here that Mithlesh was in love with Rita and wanted to marry her at any cost. He even threatened the family members that if they tried to marry her somewhere else that he would abduct her from the function.
However, Rajaram not took the threats seriously and went ahead to get Rita married along with her younger sister to end the dispute. Reports said that Rajaram and all the family members rushed and tried to rescue the girl. They also contacted the local police and registered a case of kidnapping and threatening them with life against the accused and his three other cohorts. Both, the family members and cops launched a hunt for the duo. The matter took a tragic turn when the local police recovered the body of both Rita and Mithlesh lying near the pond on Friday night. They called the family members who also identified both the victims.
The cops said that they found bullet injury marks on both the bodies and a .315 bore country made weapon in the hands of the youth. Two used cartridges were also recovered from the spot. The cops claimed that circumstantial evidences suggested that Mithlesh kidnapped the girl and when she resisted to accompany with him, he decided to kill her and also to commit suicide so that if his lover not became his wife than she could not also marry anyone else. The family members of the boy claimed that just agitated with the affair and that the girl eloped from the marriage function, the girl’s family members got both killed.
Meanwhile in another bizarre incident reported from Bhadohi, a two-year-old boy died after his father allegedly threw acid on him and mother-in-law following a dispute in the family on Friday night. Reports said that one Babloo, hailing from Katra hamlet of Sitamarhi area in Bhadohi district had some dispute with his 50-year-old mother-in-law Gena Devi on Friday night. The dispute took an ugly turn when annoyed with the behaviour of his in-laws, Babloo, threw acid on Gena Devi in which she was critically injured. However, unfortunately, his two-year-old son, Nanhu was also seriously burnt in the process. They were rushed to District Hospital from where they were referred to a private hospital in Allahabad. However, the boy succumbed to his injuries on early Saturday morning. A case has been registered in this regard against the father and further action has been initiated.