In a sensational shooting in Bareilly, a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sprayed with bullets outside his house on Tuesday night.
After preliminary inquiry, the police said that the murder was a sequel to an old dispute.
Separate teams were formed to arrest the assailants, who went on the lam after the attack.
A heavy police force was deployed in the area to avert untoward incident.
As per report, Yunus Ahmed of Super City area was standing outside his house along with his daughter, Tabassum, and a kin, Waseem, on Tuesday night. Suddenly, retired army personnel Sirajuddin, his brother Islamuddin, Asif and two others came there and opened fire at Yunus as a result of which he collapsed there.
The assailants later fired a few more shots in the air to scare away the locals and escaped.
Yunus, a district vice-president of BJP Minority Cell, was rushed to a nearby hospital but doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. The victim had six bullet wounds, including four
on the head.
Tabassum told the police that her father owned another house at Eijaz Nagar Gautiya in Bareilly and the accused had made an attempt on her father’s life two years back, and the case was pending trial.
Bareilly’s Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Pandey said that the victim was a property dealer and he had an old dispute with Sirajuddin.
A case was registered and investigations were on.
Meanwhile in Kaushambi, a 30-year-old woman was found murdered on Wednesday morning.
Udai Patel of Roopnarainpur Goriya in Saini locality said that his wife, Vimla Devi, had gone out to ease herself late Tuesday night and when she did not return home after a long time he searched for her.
On Wednesday morning, Vimla Devi’s body with multiple stabs was found lying in a pool of blood in a nearby field.
Circumstantial evidence suggested that someone sexually assaulted the woman and later killed her in fear of being identified.
A case was registered and investigations are on.
In another incident reported from Kaushambi, Ghanshyam Kori of Milakpijri hamlet under Manjhanpur police station returned home after harvesting crop late on Tuesday evening and found his three-year-old daughter, Archana, crying. He tried to coax her but when he failed he threw the girl on the floor, critically injuring her, She was later rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead upon arrival.
A case was registered and the father was arrested.