In sensational incidents, a sub-inspector from Dalit community was hacked to death in Rae Bareli while a woman on the way to Kashi Vishwanath temple was gangraped in Chandauli district.
In Rae Bareli, sub-inspector Dharmendra Gautam posted in the police control room in Amethi district took leave and visited his native village in Majhgawan hamlet of Harchandpur area. On Monday night, Gautam, along with his servant Guru Prasad, slept by the tubewell outside his village.
Early on Tuesday morning, when villagers passed by the tubewell, they were shocked to find the body of the cop lying in a pool of blood. He seemed to have been attacked with a sharp-edged weapon. The villagers also found Guru Prasad locked inside the tubewell room. They took him out after which he told them that some unknown persons struck in the wee hours of Tuesday. They first assaulted him and locked him in the tubewell room and later hacked Gautam to death.
After learning about the incident, senior officers rushed to the spot and summoned a forensic team and sniffer dogs to get clues about the killers but efforts failed to pay off.
The police suspected some extra-marital relations behind the killing as the assailants locked Guru Prasad and not only killed the cop but also damaged his private parts with sharp-edged weapons. The cops were also looking into a possible political angle as Gautam’s brother Virendra Gautam was formerly a district panchayat member and had enmity with his opponents. A case was registered and investigations were on.
Elsewhere in Chandauli, a 30-year-old woman on way to Kashi Vishwanath temple was gangraped in Alinagar area. The woman from Satna (Madhya Pradesh) arrived on Sunday night by a train at Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay railway station (formerly Mughal Sarai) and hired a taxi to reach the temple in Varanasi to offer prayers on the last Monday of ‘Shravan’.
However, taxi drivers Sonu and Jitendra, instead of driving her to Varanasi, took her to a house in Alinagar area and raped her during night hours. The woman informed the police on Monday morning after which both the accused were arrested and efforts were on to trace the house owner. The woman was sent for medical examination.
Meanwhile, in Shamli, activists of a ‘Hindu Gau Raksha Dal’ thrashed two men on the suspicion of transporting cows for slaughter. Both the victims were beaten with belts and sticks by cow vigilantes but were saved by the police on time.
The incident took place after the vigilantes spotted a mini-truck carrying cows in Adarsh Mandi of Shamli and stopped it on Monday night. As soon as the vehicle stopped, three of the five people in the truck escaped, while the other two were nabbed by the cow vigilantes and brutally assaulted.
later, personnel from Mandi police station rushed to the spot and rescued the two men and took them into custody for interrogation. The police also detained Hindu Gau Raksha Dal chief Anuj Bansal after lodging a case of aggravated assault against him and 10 unidentified men. The two injured were identified as Dilshad and Shahzad of Kurahana village (Shamli). later, Bansal also lodged an FIR against the two.
Elsewhere, in Mathura, one person was killed and six others critically injured when they were hit by a speeding Express train at Kosikala station on Tuesday morning.
Railway police sources said that the injured were crossing the tracks from platform number two to board the inter-city train when suddenly Sampark Kranti Express train ran over them over at high speed. The police confirmed one death and the injured were rushed to a hospital.