A 40-year-old widow and her son were brutally hacked to death in Mathura while in a separate incident a man was battered to death while his two sons were battling for life when they were attacked by their own kin just over a petty matter in Pratapgarh on Monday morning.
According to reports from Mathura, Geeta, who is widow and residing with he 10-year-old son Nikhil at Mahavidya Colony at Govindnagar, both were found lying murdered inside their residence on Monday morning. Their neighbours who found the two dead informed the local police about the incident. Senior officers who rushed to the spot claimed that circumstantial evidences suggested that killers were known to victims as no forceful entry was made. They said that as criminals not touched any item which pointed that it was not a case of loot and murder but the accused wanted just to kill the duo probably in greed of some property. The victim was engaged as door-to-door sales to run the house. A case has been registered and bodies were sent for post-mortem examination. Further investigations are on by the police.
In Pratapgarh, Santosh Maurya, hailing from Sardeeh locality of Aaspur Devsara was returning from market along with his 4-year-old son Vikas and 1-year-old Chote, on Monday morning. On way back home, Santosh was intercepted by his maternal cousin Ramesh, who attacked him with an axe critically injuring Santosh and his two sons. Some villagers who rushed to rescue them later shifted them to district hospital where Santosh was pronounced dead upon arrival while his both sons were referred for Medical College to Allahabad. local police who visited scene of crime later conducted raid and arrested the accused. later disclosing about the motive behind the crime, cops said that on Sunday evening
Ramesh was cutting trees when his mother objected after which he started assaulting her in which Santosh intervened to save her and had abused Ramesh for assaulting his old mother. Upset with this, Ramesh attacked Santosh and his sons on Monday morning. Meahwhile three persons were also killed after consuming spurious liquor in Agra. According to reports some residents of Kachpura hamlet of Etmadpur in Agra consumed liquor from local countrymade liquor shop on Sunday evening. Tragedy hit the area when some of them started to vomit and were rushed to a near-by hospital where three of them identified as Sattar Khan (52), Meraj (42)and Babbu (39) succumbed soon after being admitted. The doctors who attended on the victims claimed that the three seems to have died of spurious liquor. A case was registered in this regard and bodies were dispatched for autopsy test. The liquor shop has been also sealed and a sample was sent to labotary for test. However, no arrest has been made by the police.