In a sensational broad daylight shoot-out in Bahraich, a 25-year-old bank official was sprayed with bullets by unidentified assailants near Sulaghat area of Payagpur on Saturday. Senior officers along with local police later rushed to the spot and claimed to be probing the matter.
According to reports, R N Thakur posted as branch manager of Allahabad UP Gramin Bank, was going to Gonda in connection with some official work when motorcycle-borne assailants intercepted him at Sulaghat area of Payagpur in Bahraich. Before Thakur could sense foul play the miscreants opened indiscriminate fire at him and later fled from the spot. Thakur was rushed to the hospital but doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. A case was registered in this regard and efforts are on to trace out the assailants and lay a trap on them. The cops also said that they were also trying to confirm whether it was a case of loot and murder or some other motive is behind the killing.
Meanwhile a former Block Development Committee member along with one another local criminal were also sprayed with bullets in Jaunpur late on Friday night. According to report lodged with the local police station in Jaunpur, Achche lal Rajbhar, a native of Hazirafipur in Shahganj, claimed that his 35-year-old son Ramsuharat Rajbhar was sitting along with former BDC member
Hariram Prajapati at a local tea stall owned by Moti lal on Friday night. He said that four local villagers whom he identified as Pappu, Kalim, Tariq and Abuzar, along with two of their henchmen rounded his son and former BDC member and shot both dead. local police which made all out efforts to lay a trap on named accused claimed that Ramsuharat Rajbhar was a listed history sheeter of the area and his wife was also sitting member of Zila Panchayat. The cops claimed that they were also looking whether the killing was a fall out of some political dispute or gang war had led the sensational killing. A case was registered in this regard and both the bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.