Close on the heels of kidnapping and murder of a doctor’s son in Deoria, another Class 2 student of Chhatari area of Bulandshahr was allegedly kidnapped and later killed.
The boy, identified as Harsh, went missing from the school under suspicious circumstances in Bulandshahr and his body was found lying in the Sikandarpur Machhua canal located in Harduaganj area of Aligarh.
Harsh had gone missing from the school on Saturday and his body was recovered on Sunday evening.
The agitated neighbours of Harsh staged a protest by blocking the traffic movement at Pandraval locality, demanding arrest of the killer. The local officers later reached the spot and pacified the protesters by assuring them that the kidnappers would be identified and arrested at the earliest.
Senior Superintendent of Police of Bulandshahr, Shlok Kumar, said that a 7-year-old boy studying in SR International School in Chhatari police station area, did not reach his home on Saturday afternoon, after which the family informed the police about his disappearance.
The SSP said a police team was formed and it started searching for the boy. He said on Sunday evening, the police learnt from Aligarh cops that the body of a boy was seen lying in a canal in Sikandarpur Machhua area in Harduaganj and the family members immediately rushed there with a police force and identified the body as their missing son Harsh.
He said a forensic team was rushed to the spot to collect evidence and six police teams were formed to work out the case.
Some people from the school were being interrogated.
In Balrampur, the mutilated body of a four-year-old girl was found in Pachperwa forest area on Sunday morning.
Police claimed that the girl (Roshni) was killed by a leopard but forest officials said that no pug marks were found at the spot.
According to reports, the girl who was sleeping outside her house went missing on Saturday night and her badly mutilated body was found in the forest on Sunday. The body of the girl (Roshni) was sent for post-mortem.
Forest officials have advised villagers to stay indoors and go out in groups. Forest officer Kotesh Tyagi said on Monday that necessary action would be taken after receiving the post-mortem report.
Meanwhile in Mirzapur, a man was killed while his brother was battling for his life after miscreants opened indiscriminate fire at them.
The local police reached the spot and a heavy police force was deployed along with jawans of Provincial Armed Constabulary to avert any untoward incident.
Reports said that some miscreants struck at the house of Rajesh Yadav (41) and his younger brother Chandrashekhar Yadav, natives of Birohi village under Vindhyachal police station on Sunday night.
The miscreants first assaulted the brother with sticks and later opened indiscriminate fire at them before escaping.
The villagers rushed both the injured brothers to hospital where Rajesh was pronounced dead while the condition of his younger brother was stated to be critical.
Reports said that Shamsher Singh, Dhirendra Singh, Ishwari Pratap Singh, all residents of Birohi village, had given some land to Niyamat Ali of Mahdaura village to excavate soil. On Sunday night, as the backhoe (JCB) started excavating the soil, Rajesh Yadav and Chandrashekhar Yadav objected and claimed that the land belonged to them. This led to a dispute between the two groups but on intervention of the villagers, both the parties went back.
An hour later, the other side struck at Rajesh Yadav’s house and attacked, killing Rajesh and injuring his brother.
Soon after learning of the attack, police teams from Jigna, Lalganj, Katra Kotwali and Vindhyachal police stations along with Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar Mishra, SP (City) Sanjay Verma, CO Prabhat Rai reached the spot and raided the houses of the accused.
Police station in-charge Vindhyachal Vineet Rai said that there was a fight between both the sides regarding the land dispute in which 4-5 people from the other side were also injured, and three of them had been found.
Mishra said the police were conducting raids to nab the accused.