The manager of a Bank of Baroda branch was sprayed with bullets by unknown assailants in Rae Bareli late on Tuesday night.
The incident came to light when his body was found lying in a pool of blood in Shyam Nagar locality under Mill Area police station on Wednesday morning.
Later, senior police officers, including Superintendent of Police of Rae Bareli, Shlok Kumar, rushed to the spot for investigation and the body was sent for post-mortem.
As per reports, Jai Prakash Pal of Bhavani Nagar in Kanpur was posted as manager in Bank of Baroda branch in Rae Bareli. On Tuesday, he returned by his car to a rented accommodation at Shyam Nagar in Rae Bareli around 8:30 pm. But as he alighted from the car, he was fired upon. As the victim fell to the ground on his back, the assailant pumped five more bullets into his chest.
However, his neighbours spotted the body only on Wednesday morning and intimated the police.
SP of Rae Bareli, Shlok Kumar, reached the spot along with a forensic team and conducted an investigation. The police found five bullet shells from the spot. In the CCTV camera installed in the house next to Pal's house, a lame man was seen coming just before the incident.
A police team has been formed to nab the assailants.
The police contacted the victim’s family and colleagues to confirm about any personal or professional dispute that could lead to the assailants.
Meanwhile in Muzaffarnagar, a woman claimed that she was taken hostage at a madrasa and forced to convert and accused seven persons for her forcible conversion.
Acting on a complaint, the police have now filed an FIR and arrested one of the accused.
The woman, a resident of Nai Mandi Kotwali area, said that her husband died in 2012 after which she went to work at Jansath brick kiln in 2015 and met one of the accused. She alleged that she got into a relationship with a man who pressured her to convert to Islam. She alleged that a few days back, her lover forcibly took her to a madrasa and held her hostage for days. Later, he along with six others forcibly converted her.
She further alleged that the accused threatened to kill her children and took her to his village in Kukda where he sexually exploited her and also pressured her into sexual relationship with his friends Furkan, Saleem, Nafees.
The woman later informed Hindu Jagran Manch office-bearers in Muzaffarnagar after which the local police swung into action and arrested one of the accused.