A close follower of Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, who too was a mahant in Maniram Dasji Chanvni in Ayodhya at Faizabad, was found murdered under mysterious circumstances on Friday morning.
Reports said that 40-year-old Vijay Ram Das was found dead on Frdiay morning. Another Mahant, Kamal Nayan Das, who first noticed of the incident informed the local police after which senior officers along with SSP, Faizabad, KB Singh, rushed to the spot.
The circumstantial evidences showed that the victim was brutally hacked to death with an axe after having some dispute sometime late on Thursday night. Some broken bangles and a used condom pointed towards involvement of a woman in the crime, claimed a senior officer engaged with the investigation. He said that there was also some dispute between the mahants of two akharas so they were looking into all the possible angles and had also picked up four suspects for interrogation. The body of the victim was also dispatched for post-mortem examination while a case has been registered under section 302/452 IPC for entering into the premises and murder.
In a separate killing reported from lakhimpur Kheri, a 40-year-old advocate, Jagat Pal Singh, a resident of Phool Behad in Kheri, was returning with his son Abhinav Singh, from lucknow when Shrawan Singh, Anirudh Singh, Shivraj Singh, Babloo Singh, Rajesh and three unknown miscreants intercepted them at Saidpur crossing late on Thursday night.