Unidentified assailants struck terror in Ghazipur when they shot dead a Block Development Committee (BDC) member in Saidpur locality on Friday afternoon. local police which rushed to the spot claimed to have registered a case and launched a hunt for the killers. They suspected some political rivalry behind the shoot-out.
Reports said that 50-year-old Kailash Yadav, a native of Mirzapur village, who was also BDC member was going on a bicycle when some unknown miscreants intercepted him at Bithari turning in Saidpur on Friday afternoon. Before Kailash could sense foulplay, the miscreants opened indiscriminate fire on him and sprayed him with bullets. Some villagers who were witnessed to the crime claimed that the killers escaped after firing few rounds in air to terrorise them. Kailash died on the spot. The reason behind the murder was still a mystery.
Meanwhile two lovers were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Jalalpur area of Jaunpur on Friday morning while a farmer was shot in Mahoba. In Jaunpur, 30-year-old Khurshid, a native of Jalalpur was said to be having an affair with a 16-year-old girl of his village. Khurshid was a supervisor at an under-construction government school. The family members of both were against their affair as they belongs to different religion.
On Thursday evening, family members of Khurshid as well as that of girls found both missing. They launched a hunt and on Friday morning they found them lying in unconscious state in near-by fields. They were rushed to District Hospital where the doctors pronounced them dead upon arrival. local police which sent both the bodies for post-mortem examination claimed that they probably committed suicide due to opposition by their family members. However, they not ruled out possibility of honour killing as a possible motive.
According to reports from Mahoba, a farmer was shot dead for objecting a robbery incident at his house in Charkhari area on late Thursday night. Reports said that some unidentified armed miscreants barged into the house of one Babu Kushwaha at Bamrara village on Mahoba on late Thursday night. When Babu Kushwaha raised objection and tried to foil their attempt, the miscreants opened fire and shot him dead. Two other members of family also sustained bullet injuries in the firing. later, the miscreants decamped with ornaments and other valuables worth several lakhs. local police claimed to have registered a case in this regard and launched a man-hunt for the accused.