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A 7-year-old boy was brutally hacked to death in Sitapur while a gram pradhan who was missing since Monday was found dead in Chandauli on Thursday morning.
As per reports, Shyampal and his son Aditya of Aganpur hamlet of Ramnagar (Barabanki) came to Sitapur to attend a kin’s ‘tilak’ ceremony in Nayagaon area on Wednesday evening. While the function was underway, Shyampal noticed that Aditya, who was playing with some other children, was missing. He enquired from other guests but when he found that no one had noticed his son, he immediately started searching for his son alongwith with other kin. After failing to trace Aditya, he reported the matter to the local police.
On Thursday morning, some women folks, out to ease themselves, noticed the body of a boy lying in a secluded place and later raised an alarm, Soon Shyampal and his relatives converged on the scene and were shocked to find that the body was Aditya. The victim’s throat had been slit with a sharp-edged weapon before his body was dumped. A case was registered, the body was sent for post mortem examination and investigations were underway.
Elsewhere in Chandauli, pradhan of Amada village in Sadar Kotwali, Ramesh Yadav went missing under mysterious circumstances last Monday. His family members claimed that before his disappearance, Yadav received several calls on his mobile phone and hence suspected that he was called by someone and later kidnapped. They tried to get a case registered in this regard against unknown persons but the cops refused and asked the family to look for the victim. Yadav’s mobile phone was also found to be switched off.
On Thursday morning, the matter took an ugly turn when the victim’s kin received a call from Sultanpur and learnt that the body of the missing pradhan was found lying on railway tracks. Later, hundreds of angry local residents gathered outside the Sadar Kotwali police station and staged a demonstration accusing that Yadav was killed due to the negligence of the cops. Senior police officers, however, intervened and on their assurance of conducting a probe and arresting the killers, the family members left for Sultanpur to receive the body.