In yet another case of `Honour Killing’, two teenagers were done to death by the family members of the girl in the name of saving family pride in Ferojabad.
Reports said that 22-year-old Dinesh lal Kori, a resident of Niyamatpur hamlet of Naglasindhi in Ferojabad was having an affair with 16-year-old Sundari Thakur, a native of same locality. Both Dinesh and Sundari wanted to get married but the family members of the girl were opposed it it especially as they belong to upper caste.
Reports further said that despite of opposition by her family members the girl continue to meet her lover.
However the matter took an ugly turn when on late Friday night, Sundari slipped out of her house to elope with Dinesh. The family members of girl who found her missing in the mid-night launched a search and were shocked to find her in comprising position with the youth.
According to Dinesh’s brother Bihari lal Kori, the family members of Sundari brutally assaulted both before strangulating them to death. Bihari also lodged a report against Sundari’s father Thakur Ramnath and other family members. A case was registered in this regard and efforts were made to arrest the accused who all were found absconding from the house.
Meanwhile a 32-year-old man was shot under mysterious circumstances in Sitapur while stray bullet fired to celebrate a marriage function claimed one life in Barabanki. According to reports from Sitapur, Sandeep Awasthi, a resident of Sandila locality of Machrehta was sleeping outside his house when three unknown miscreants struck and opened indiscriminate fire at him in the wee hours of Saturday. The assailants fired at least dozen round on Sandeep and only after assuring that he was dead they escaped. A case was registered in this regard and local police is probing all the disputes which led to murder of the victim.
In Barabanki, the marriage function of daughter of one Jagdish Yadav’s was going on in Khanta hamlet of Dewa on Friday night when some drunken youths suddenly started firing to celebrate the occasion. The firing by the baratis turned fatal when one of the bullets fired from license DBBl gun by one Rakesh Yadav, a native of Umari hamlet Dewa hit a guest identified as Rajesh Yadav, hailing from Khanta also in Dewa. The victim was rushed to District Hospital in critical condition were the doctors
pronounced him dead upon arrival. A case was registered in this regard against Rakesh Yadav and he was also arrested by the local police along with the weapon used in the crime.