A 6-year-old boy was alleged to be brutally killed under mysterious circumstances

In a bizarre incident of human sacrifice, a 6-year-old boy was alleged to be brutally killed under mysterious circumstances some time late on Tuesday night. His body was recovered on Wednesday morning after which a case has been registered.

Anil Kumar Prajapati, hailing from Pilana hamlet of Himpur in Bijnore district claimed that his son Kakul, had went to sleep in his elder brother Rampal Singh’s house but he disappeared under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday. He claimed that they launched a hunt but failed to locate his son. Only on Wednesday morning, when they learnt through villagers that body of a boy was lying in the nearby orchards, they rushed and shocked to find that the victim was his missing son. The circumstantial evidences, particularly that killers had removed the hair of the victim and some puja material lying near-by all showed that the boy was sacrificed to appease some God deity just to achieve some goal by the accused. Further investigations are on in the matter.

Meanwhile some more killings were reported from other parts of the state. In another incident reported from Kaushambi, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mahewaghat area on Tuesday. Reports said that lalji Prajapati was shot dead by motorcycle-borne persons near Kumiyawan Bazar onTuesday evening. Agitated with the incident, local residents placed the body on the road and blocked it for several hours on Wednesday morning. They later lifted the blockade on assurance of immediate arrest of the culprits involved in the killing.

In another case reported from Meerut, the body of a 15-year-old boy was found hanging from a tree with his family members alleging it to be a case of murder. Though a suicide note was found with the victim, hailing from Kalina village, his family members claimed that he was illiterate and it is a case of murder. The victim, Mukesh, was found hanging from a tree in a forest here on Tuesday evening. local police who sent the body for post-mortem examination claimed that they were waiting for the report before making any head way into the incident. The victim’s father has also filed a police complaint against four persons who live in the same village, alleging that they were behind the killing. In one more incident also reported from Meerut, 35-year-old Shahid, hailing from Bairun Sarai locality of Sardhana, had went with his nephew and servant to field on Tuesday when some unknown miscreants struck. They ties nephew and servant with a tree and shot dead Shahid before fleeing from the spot.

In Sultanpur, petty incident led to double murder when a 38-year-old man was allegedly killed in Samerghat village by three assailants, one of whom was alter beaten to death by the deceased’s family members. Reports said that Shiv Bahadur Nishad alias Mote was having dinner outside his house in the village when another villagers, also identified as Shiv Bhadhur Singh came and asked Nishad to give him some liquor. When Nishad refused, it led to heated exchange of words between the two which later turned fatal when Shiv Bhadhur joined by two of his accomplices and attacked Nishad and killed

him with a sharp-edged weapons late on Wednesday night.

Reports further said that the trio were chased by the family members of the deceased and they caught hold of  Shiv Bahadur Singh of Ramnagar Kot village, while the two others managed to escape. Shiv Bahadur was beaten up severely by them and later succumbed to his injuries in a hospital. A case has been registered in this connection and efforts are on to nab the two other assailants.

In Ghazipur, property dispute led to killing of 32-year-old YogeshYadav, residing at  Ballipur hamlet of Sadiyabad on Wednesday morning. Yogesh was sprayed with bullets by Ramvriksh, and three of his associates. A case has been registered and efforts were made to nab the accused.In Sandila locality of Hardoi, one local resident Puttu, was sleeping his fields when he was attacked by other local villagers identified as Munnu, Kallu and Shahid,who all brutally hacked him to death late on Tuesday night. A case was registered and all out efforts were on to arrest the accused. lastly in one more incident in Hardoi, one Anshul Kashyap, was brutally battered to death just after he refused to give money to another villager Pappu, on Tuesday night.