Mystery shrouded the sensational killing of two sisters, whose mutilated bodies were found in their home at Moradabad on Saturday morning. While the police suspected it to be a case of loot and murder but the possibility of their killing over a property dispute was not ruled out. A case was registered and the bodies were sent for autopsy.
As per reports, a tenant in a house at Mandi Chowk in Mugalpura area (Moradabad) became concerned when owners of the house Kusum Agarwal (65) and her sister Rajrani Agarwal (60) did not come out of their portion on the first floor on Saturday morning. As he went to enquire, he was shocked to find the doors ajar and the body of Kusum lying in a pool of blood in one room while that of Rajrani in another room.
Their belongings, including those kept in the almirah, were lying scattered on the floor pointing towards a possible loot and murder. The tenant immediately informed the police control room after which senior officers and local cops reached the spot.
After preliminary enquiry, the police said that someone entered the house late on Friday night, brutally hacked the sisters and decamped with valuables and cash kept in the house. The cops did not rule out the possibility of a property dispute behind the killing. They were waiting to interrogate their kin for a possible lead which could help unravel the murder mystery.
Meanwhile, in another case in Muzaffarnagar, an eight-year-old girl was raped by a 14-year-old boy in cane fields in Asadnagar village of Sikheda police station area on Friday evening. A case was later registered and the accused was apprehended. The girl had gone to the fields, with two other children, when the accused forcibly took her to nearby fields and raped her. The two children narrated the incident to her family and the girl was rushed to a hospital.
In another case in Khatauli area of Muzaffarnagar, at least five people were injured in a clash between two groups over celebrating a birthday. During the birthday bash on Friday evening, an altercation ensued between two people over playing DJ and it led to a clash in which stones were freely pelted. A case was registered and the injured were hospitalised.