Mystery shrouded the death of a Deputy Chief Engineer (DCE) of Railways and his wife, whose bodies were found lying in a pool of blood inside their house at Gorakhpur early Friday morning.
Even as the police claimed that circumstantial evidences pointed towards a loot and murder, but the manner in which the couple were hacked pointed otherwise and the articles were robbed to derail the investigations about the `motive’.
As per reports, DCE, Sanjay Kumar Srivastava (45) and his wife Tulika Srivastava (40), who was the Principal of HP School, were found dead at their house in Vindyavasninagar area of Kotwali police station at Gorakhpur. The bodies bore injuries caused by sharp-edged weapons. A case was registsred in thsi connection and further investigations are on.
Meanwhile in Etah, unknown miscreants struck terror by targeting half a dozen houses at Purav village of Malawan police station area and decamped with gold and cash worth lakhs of rupees on Wednesday night.
The thieves entered the house of one lok Singh and fled
with a gold chain, two gold rings and Rs 35,000 in cash, local police disclosed to media on Friday morning. The house of Satyveer was also raided and the robbers made off with a loot of Rs 50,000 in cash and jewellery.
Vinod, Pramod, Ramladete and Jeevanram from the neighbourhood were also deprived of lakhs of rupees worth gold and other valuables, police added. An FIR has been lodged in this connection. No arrest or recovery could be made till late Friday evening