Close on the heels of robbery on bus in the native village of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in Etawah in which local district police chief was also shunted out within hours of the incident was reported, yet another similar incident took place in Shahjahenpur.
Once again unknown robbers entered a roadways bus and looted the passengers as well as conductor at gun point before fleeing safely with the looted booty on early Saturday morning. local police registered a case in this regard and claimed to have launched a massive hunt for the miscreants. They were also taking help of electronic surveillance to trace out the identity of the miscreants.
Reports said that a Roadways Bus (UP30A-9347) belonging to Hardoi Depot was coming to Hardoi from New Delhi in the wee hours on Saturday morning. The
conductor of the bus identified as Vinay Singh, a native of Beniganj in Hardoi said that when the bus was crossing Kolaghat bridge in the Jalalabad locality of Shahjahenpur
they found a DCM truck (HR55E-9170) standing on the mid of the road. He said that as the driver stopped the vehicle, over a dozen armed robbers suddenly barged
inside the bus and threatened everyone with dire consequences if anyone tried to object their move.
Vinay claimed that later the robbers looted belongings and cash worth over Rs 96000 from the passengers and snatched his cash bag. They later stepped out of the bus
and escaped. He said that some passengers also later tried to chase the robbers after alerting the local villagers but they failed to get any success. later they informed the
incident to the local police who rushed along with senior officers and launched a hunt.
Meanwhile old land dispute led to clash between two groups in which two persons were killed while half a dozen others were critically injured in Gorakhpur on Saturday
morning. Reports said that Gama Yadav and Ramashan Yadav, both natives of Jungle Rasoolpur hamlet of Tola Sawlabhari in Jagha locality of Gorakhpur were having an
old property dispute. On Saturday morning, both Gama and Ramashan had heated arguments over the same issue. The matter however took an ugly turn when both were also joined by their family members and supporters who had a free for all. They opened fire and attacked each other with sticks in rods. Before the local police arrived at the scene of crime after being informed of the incident by some local villagers, Ramashan died on the spot of bullet injury while one Dhirendra Paswan, an associate of Gama Yadav died on way to hospital. The others who were critically injured were shifted to District Hospital. A cross-case was later registered by the local police and four persons were detained in the matter. The bodies of both the victims were also sent for post-mortem examination.