Half a dozen armed men struck terror in the native village of labour minister Swami Prasad Maurya by robbing cash and jewellery worth several lakh rupees in Baghari area of Pratapgarh on Thursday night.
Interestingly, the police was yet to registsre acse in this connection. The hapless family met senior officers but still no congnizance was taken in the matter.
As per reports, the house of lal Bhadhur Singh residing in Thakuraiya hamlet of Baghrai police station area in Pratapgarh was raided aby armed bandits late Thursday night. After barging inside the house, the dacoits’s took Singh’s family members at gun point and huddled them in a room. later the miscreants stashed all the ornaments and other costly items including cash and leftthe scene threatening the victims of dire consequences.
Singh claimed that after the dacoits fled, he called his neighbours and they all went to the local Baghari police station to get a case registered on Friday morning. However, they were shooed away and the cops refused to register a case.
Meanwhile, communal tension gripped Azamgarh after members of two communities came to a head and exchanged fire that left about half a dozen injured on Friday afternoon. This was after the police had been taking ‘preventive steps’ to avert any exigency afteran unsavoury incident early this week.
last Wednesday, a goat belonging to Ranjeet of Ishaqpur locality of Bardah (Azamgarh) went into the fields of Saleem to graze. This resulted in a heated exchange of words between the two. Saleem’s supporters assaulted Ranjeet and his kin after which a case was registsred against Tauqeer Ahmed, Bali, Faiz Ahmed, Abdul Haqim and other miscreants. Tauqeer was arrested for breach of peace and sensing tesnion in the area, the accused were also bound down under preventive measures by the police.
After Friday prayers, relatives and friends of Tauqeer attacked the other group and opened fire. Upon learning about the clash, the cops rushed to the scene and defused the situtaion. They also shifted injured Chote lal, Hriday Narain from Ranjeet’s side who suffered bullet wounds to a hospital. Besides Aftab from the other side suffered minor injuries.
Heavy police force w been deployed in the area to avert any further clash.