Uttar Pradesh continue to remain in grip of criminals who struck on their will. In Hardoi, three persons were killed and over half a dozen others injured when dacoits struck in Pali area of the district and looted valuables and cash on late Sunday night.
Taking serious cognizance of the matter, SP Hardoi, Umesh Kumar Singh, on directions of IG (lucknow Zone)A Satish Ganesh, who also visited the spot, had suspended the local Pali police station incharge along with constables who were on night patrol duty.
Reports said that the dacoits barged into a house in Birhana locality late on Sunday night and bludgeoned to death 55-year-old Rishikant Bajpai with sticks and injured his wife and son. later, they struck at a house in Sheikh Sarai locality and killed 45-year-old Bhuri, and also injued other family members. later the robbers targeted at least four more houses killing one more person and injuring half a dozen others before fleeing with valuables and cash. Police suspect the ‘kachcha baniyan’ or ‘banwariya’ gang to be behind the incident.
In a similar incident reported from Gorakhpur, some unknown miscreants barged inside the house on one Sukhiya lawrence (55), a resident of Motipokhra in Basharatpur Sahapur area and brutally hacked her and her 23-year-old daughter Asarli aka Jaini, and escaped with ornaments, and other iterms.