State witnessed yet another sensational killing when member of the law enforcing agency was brutally hacked to death and his license pistol was looted by unknown criminals in Bijnore on late Friday night. local officers who rushed after learning of the incident sent the body for post-mortem examination. They claimed to be probing both the personal as well as professional dispute of the victim to extract the reason behind the killing.
Reports said that sub-inspector Sehjor Singh Malik, was returning from Mandawar police station to Balashali police outpost where he was posted as incharge. Contable Rajneesh Kumar and Dharmendra Singh, both attached with the same police outpost claimed that the SI asked them that he has to complete some investigation work so he was going to office at about 8:30pm on Friday. They claimed that half an hour later, they received a mobile call from the local pradhan that the sub-inspector was lying in pool of blood on the corner of the road with his throat slit allegedly by some unidentified men. The pradhan noticed the incident after he found a mobile, owned by the SI, lying abandoned with someone calling.
Both Kumar and Singh said that they rushed to the spot and found that Sehjor was brutally hacked by someone and his license pistol along with cartridges, were looted. The motorcycle was also found lying on the corner of the road. Both informed the incident to their bosses after which they rushed to the spot for investigation. The deceased belonged to lisadh village in Shamli district. Surprisingly, the colleagues and senior officers initially tried to hush up the crime claiming that the SI met with an accident.
In one another sensational killing also in Friday night, a 36-year-old jeweler was shot dead in Gazipur district and cash along with gold ornaments worth several lakh rupees has been looted. The incident took place in Sirohi Bazar here when the jeweler, identified as Vinod Baranwal was returning home along with his kin, identified as Harsh Baranwal, after closing his shop. Harsh claimed that three motorcycle borne miscreants intercepted and took them at gun point. They first snatched the license pistol of Vinod and later they fired from point blank range on the temple of the Vinod and killed him on the spot. The robbers also took away a bag of jewellery items and cash with them. Agitated with the incident, the traders also staged a protest demanding arrest of the culprits. later, they postpone the agitation on assurance of working out the case at earliest.
Meanwhile reports from Etah confirmed that two bike-borne men snatched gold
chain from a woman who was participating in a ladies sangeet function. The incident occurred in the Awagarah area where the victim, Suneeta, was robbed of a gold chain valued at around Rs 1 lakh when she came out after attending a marriage function on Friday evening. A case has been registered and investigations are on to identify the miscreants.