Twenty four hours after the sensational killing of four members of a family in Allahabad, in which two girls were also raped, the bodies of four minors were found in Chitrakoot on Tuesday. A case was registered by police and efforts are being made to ascertain their identities.
Reports said the bodies of an 11 and 7-year-old girls were found in a gunny bag near Kachuwa nullah in Amhan Tikra hamlet of Rajapur on Tuesday morning. Some meters away, the bodies of a five-year-old boy and a four-year-old boy were also found in a gunny bag. All four had been hacked with sharp edged weapons. All four were siblings, it further said.
Meanwhile, the cops claimed that they were trying to ascertain identities of the deceased and suspected that either the parents were involved in the killing or they too met with similar fate and their bodies were dumped at some other place. Investigations were on and the bodies were sent for autopsy.
In another icident, former president of lalganj Bar Association was shot dead by unidentified miscreants over an old dispute at Pratapgarh, on Monday evening.
As per reports, Dhananjay Misra (45) was returning home with his brother Vinay Kumar Mishra when four motorcycle-borne assailants followed them and opened fire near Motheen village on Monday evening. As Mishra crashed to the road, the masked assailants pumped more bullets into his temple and chest before fleeing. The injured was rushed to lalganj Community Health Centre where doctors declared him dead upon arrival.
Enraged locals refused to hand over the body to the police and staged a protest demanding security and compensation to the family of the deceased. They were later pacified by officials and the body was sent for autopsy late in the night.
The cops suspected the role of one Shabbir, who had earlier made an attempt on Dhananjay’s life in 2010 and was sent to jail. Recently, Shabbir and three of his accomplices had come out on bail. The police were making efforts to arrest them.
Elsewhere in Mathura, a 13-year-old boy drowned in the swimming pool of a boarding school run by International Society for Krishna Consciousness on Monday.