Gorakhpur was again rocked by a sensational double-murder after the bodies of two minors who went missing 18 days back were recovered from a field on the fringes of Nauvari Palipa village in Jhangha area on Tuesday.
The hands of both victims were tied and there were injury marks on the head. The bodies were later sent for post-mortem examination.
As per reports, Ganesh Jaiswal (17) and Akash Jaiswal (16) of Nauvari Palipa village of Jhangha area had left home late in the evening of January 7 and later went missing since then. Their family members first assumed that both had gone to work in a factory in Gorakhpur industrial area. But after searching, when they failed to trace them, the new market police outpost in-charge Abhay Pandey was informed about their disappearance and a probe was initiated.
On Tuesday, some stray animals dug up a pit in a field exposing the buried bodies. Some passers-by noticed the concealed body parts and informed the Jhangha police station.
Later, Superintendent of Police (North) Manoj Awasthi and Circle Officer of Chaurichaura, Akhilanand Upadhyay, reached the spot along with a forensic team. The police dug up the ground and retrieved the bodies.
The hands of both victims were tied with a rope and there were injury marks on their heads.
The family members said that on the night of January 7, four of the victims’ friends had come home. They first came to Ganesh's house and took him along and then came to Akash and also took him along with them. Since then Ganesh and Akash were not seen.
The police have now started searching for their friends. Both Ganesh and Akash's father are farmers. Ganesh was a student of Class 11, while Akash was the breadwinner of his family.
Meanwhile, one person was brutally beaten to death over a political dispute in Hardoi.
Guddu of village Kinauti was engaged in embroidery work and used to live with his maternal grandmother since childhood. A local villager, Sarvesh, and his father Deepchandra alias Kallu had a fight with Guddu over the election of gram pradhan about a fortnight ago but they were pacified by the villagers.
On Monday afternoon, Guddu went to Carpenter Kheda market to buy vegetables, where five people, including Sarvesh and Deepchandra, nabbed him and struck him with a hammer. After the assailants fled the scene, Guddu was rushed to a doctor who referred him to the community health centre in Sandila but he was pronounced dead.
Guddu is survived by his wife Furkan, four daughters and a son.
An FIR was registered against the accused and efforts were on to arrest them.