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Despite the lockdown, Pratapgarh witnessed a bloody clash between two rival groups that left a property dealer dead and seven others critically injured in Marootnagar on Friday.
The injured were shifted to the district hospital from where they were referred to SRN Medical College in Prayagraj.
Taking cognisance of the clash, the district police chief of Pratapgarh suspended the in-charge of Civil Lines police outpost, Chandra Shekhar.
Additional police force was deployed in the area to avert any fresh clash while teams were formed to track down the miscreants, who are absconding.
As per reports, property dealer Ram Prasad Pandey of Barachanagar in Kotwali police station area had a dispute with Sarvesh over a property at Marootnagar and the local police were aware of it.
On Friday morning, the dispute took a violent turn as both parties came to a head and exchanged fire, sending shock waves in the area. After being informed, a police team rushed to the scene only to find eight injured persons writhing in pain. The rest of the miscreants had fled by that time.
The cops rushed injured Ram Prasad Pandey, Lakshman Pandey, Subhash and Surendra from one side and Sarvesh, Saheb, Anand and Rahul from the other to a hospital where Ram Prasad Pandey was pronounced dead upon arrival. Assessing the condition of the seven injured as critical, the doctors referred them to the medical college in Prayagraj .
Cross cases were registered by the police and investigations were on.
Meanwhile in Gorakhpur, the wife of retired sub-divisional officer (SDO) in Telecom department was brutally hacked to death and her body was found in front of her house in Madraha Nakta Tola area of Badhalganj on Friday morning.
As per reports, retired government officer Anant Sahani lived in his native village in Tewaripur area of Badhalganj while his wife Chandrawati used to live with two of her six daughters Geeta and Sangeeta.
The locals said that on Thursday afternoon, Chandrawati had an arguments over property distribution with Sangeeta’s son Vipin. But after others in the family intervened the issue was sorted out.
On Friday morning, Chandrawati went for a morning stroll and some time later she was found murdered near her house.
After preliminary investigation, the police said that since Sangeeta and her family were on the lam and also she had an argument over property with the victim a day before, they suspected their role in the murder and were trying to track them down for quizzing.