In a bizarre incident, the local villagers lynched a cattle smuggler while another died in an accident when he was trying to flee from the scene in Bahraich on Tuesday. However, one of the smuggle still managed to escape from the spot.
Police have registered a case and sent the bodies of both the smugglers for autopsy. later, the police nabbed the third smuggler who had managed to give a slip to the villagers.
The reports suggested that three miscreants parked pickup van bearing registration number UP44T-4788 and were trying to load some buffaloes belonging to Shankar in Nasrapur locality of Kotwali Dehat area in Bahraich. The villagers noticed their activity and reached the spot, in the wee hours of Tuesday. Seeing the villagers, the miscreants tried to flee from the scene but the villagers nabbed one of them. He was brutally assaulted by the mob and he succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital.
Another smuggler who tried to flee from the scene in the pickup van also got killed when his vehicle turned upside down. However, the third smuggler who was identified as Amzad Ali managed to save his life by fleeing from the spot. He too was later on arrested by the police.
The miscreant beaten to death by the mob was identified as Raees, a resident of Banjanpurwa and the one who died in road mishap was identified as Nazir, a resident of the same area.
Meanwhile, in another case, the body of a girl who went missing has been recovered from the village pond in Jaunpur district on Tuesday. Police claimed it to be a case of suicide while the family members suspected a foul play.
An 18-year-old Sarita, a resident of Manqila locality of Khetasarai in Jaunpur, had disappeared from her house on Sunday. Her family members launched a search operation and after they failed, they reported the matter to the police at Khetsarai police station. After a brief search operation, the family members finally recovered Sarita’s body from the pond located in the same village on Tuesday. The girl had injury marks on her head.
later, police claimed that the probe pointed it to be a case of suicide as some local residents confirmed that after the family members objected Sarita, who went out of her house on Sunday afternoon, she hit a stone on her head in which she was injured.
Police said that after few hours of the incident, Sarita suddenly disappeared in the evening after which the family members reported the matter to them. They suspected that Sarita probably jumped inside the pond and committed suicide. The body was sent for post mortem and the cops were waiting for autopsy report before moving ahead with the probe.