Jaunpur was rocked with a sensational broad daylight double murder when two villagers were brutally battered to death just over maintaining clout in the area. Three of the miscreants were later also arrested and sent to jail. A case has been registered in this regard by the police.
Reports said that one Surendra Singh, hailing from Siddhupur locality of Sureri in Jaunpur, informed the control room that two persons had came to kill him and his associates so they rounded them and now both were in their custody on Wednesday morning.
The local cops rushed along with senior officers and found both the victims lying in pool of blood. Circumstantial evidences suggested that the duo were brutally battered with sticks and rods by the accused.
later the cops rushed both the victims, identified as lal Chandra Singh (50)and Ajay Singh (28), to District Hospital where lal Chandra was pronounced dead upon arrival while the other one succumbed to injuries soon after reaching hospital.
local police claimed that both Surendra and the victims were having an old enmity as both wanted to maintain clout in the area. He said that the attack on Wednesday is also over same enmity.
The family members of the victims had named Surendra Singh along with Rai Saheb, Dhiraj, Chandan Singh, Pintu and their unknown aides and had alleged that they all intercepted and brutally battered both lal Chandra and Ajay and when they were dead, they called the police claiming that it was the victims who came to kill them. The family members said that when the victim had no weapons or any other arms than how they could kill the accused. A case has been registered in this regard by the police and Rai Saheb, Surendra Singh and Pintu have been arrested. The body of both victims have been also dispatched for autopsy.
In a separate case reported from Hathras, a 26-year-old man was allegedly killed by his elder brother in Nadauna village on Wednesday morning. Reports confirmed that Ramashankar was shot by his brother Tarachandra following a dispute over consuming liquor. The accused is absconding and a manhunt has been launched to nab him. The body has been sent for postmortem.
Meanwhile, five policemen including a police station in charge were also sent to lines for allegedly beating up two persons, who came to attend a wedding in Nangal Ramsingh village area of Mathura. Reports said that Satvir Singh Yadav, in charge of the Saukh police post along with other four police personnel have been sent to lines after the villagers staged a protest alleging that they detained and beatup two persons on Tuesday night, CO (Sadar)RK Gautam said. Digambar Singh and Harvir Singh, both hailing from Rajasthan, had arrived Mathura to attend a wedding when Yadav along with his policemen detained them, RlD leader Deepak Chawdhary alleged.
They were kept in lock-up and were beaten up for the whole night, he added. When the villagers came to know about the two being in police custody, scores of them marched to the police post and demanded to release them after which the cops let the duo go. They staged a protest after the duo told them that they were beaten up and showed their injury marks.
The protest stopped only after the Superintendent of Police took action against the accused police personnel. A case has been also registered against the five and further investigations are on, police said.