Busy lucknow-Varanasi highway was blocked for several hours when agitated with the brutal murder of a sitting pradhan in Sultanpur who was also a Samajwadi Party leader, hundred of his supporters kept his body on the road demanding immediate arrest of the accused.
The blockade was only cleared after about two hours when local officers somehow pacified the villagers that teams were already formed to nab the culprits.
Reports said that Ghanshayam Yadav, a senior SP leader in Sultanpur was returning after attending funeral of one of his party activist Chunnu Singh on Thursday night. On his
way to home, one Chunnu Singh, with whom Ghanshyam had old political rivalry rounded him with the help of his henchmen. They later brutally hacked the SP leader with the help of axe and sharp-edged weapons. The miscreants later escaped from the spot. Some supporters of SP leader including local Party MlA rushed the victim to District Hospital but he was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Agitated with the killing, Ghanshyam’s supporters first targeted the emergency of the hospital to register their ire.
They ransacked the ward and also broke down the window panes forcing some of the patients as well as their attendants to leave the hospital in fear of being lynched by the mob.
Reports further said that the matter was somehow cooled down on Thursday night but again on Friday morning, soon after the body of the victim was handed over to the family members after conducting post-mortem examination, the supporters once again kept the body on busy lucknow-Sultanpur road and blocked the traffic movement demanding arrest of the accused. It was only senior officers reached the spot, the protest was called off.
Meanwhile a former pradhan shot his wife and son after he was agitated with their objection over his drinking habit.
Reports said that Chandrabhan Singh aka Chander, former pradhan of Faridpur Kattar in Bangarmau locality of Unnao, was drinking liquor since Holi eve. On Thursday night, when he asked money from his wife Suman (40), she objected and asked her husband to have dinner and go to sleep as he was already drunk. However, the matter took an ugly turn when Chander lost his cool and he first assaulted his wife and when she protested, he took out a double barrel gun and opened fire killing her on the spot. When her son Ajay Singh (18), heard the gun shot he rushed to the room and tried to nab his father for killing his mother but before he could do so, Chander also fired at his son following which he too was critically injured and later died on way to hospital. Some neighbors of Chander, however, managed to nab him and they called the local police and handed him in their custody. A case was registered against former pradhan and he was sent to jail on Friday morning.