Tension prevailed in Greater Noida after a 55-year-old man was brutally murdered and his son was critically injured over an old rivalry regarding a land dispute on Wednesday morning. The victim’s family members and villagers protested and stopped traffic demanding immediate arrest of the culprits. The villagers pelted stones at police, which had to apply lathi charge to disperse the crowd.
A posse of police personnel have been deployed to avert any untoward incident. An FIR against the accused and unknown assailants was registered at Knowledge Park Police Station.
The incident took place around 9.30 am when the father-son duo — Jagdish Jatav and Dharmender Jatav — were travelling on bike to district court to appear in a land dispute proceedings.
The family members of the victims alleged that the opposite group members, who were also in their way to reach court in a tractor, attacked them.
“Both groups of people have been fighting over a 4-acre land since 1992. We have registered FIR against the people involved in the case. We have registered an FIR against seven people under Section 302 (Punishment for murder) of IPC. We are investigating the case,” said Abhishek Singh, SP (Rural), Greater Noida.
Police said the accused first attacked father and son duo with heavy objects and then killed father Jagdish by slitting his throat by a sharp edge weapon. Police said duo was found in a pool of blood in the field of Kambakhpur village of Greater Noida.
As the news about the incident spread in the area, the villagers rushed to the spot and brought critically injured Dharmender at Yatharth hospital, Greater Noida.