In a sensational killing in Etah, former pradhan Rajendra Singh (72) was brutally hacked to death.
His body was found in a mustard field on the fringes of a village on Friday.
As per reports, Rajendra Singh of Nagla Kishan Singh area of Awagarh (Etah) was pradhan of the village some years back. Around 9 pm on Thursday, a youth came to Singh’s home and asked the former pradhan to join him in cards game, to which he agreed and accompanied the youth.
When Singh did not return till late night, the family members went out searching for him without any success. On Friday morning, his body with deep gashes on his limbs and private parts was recovered from a mustard field.
The assailants had hacked him to death sometime late Thursday night and escaped.
The police rushed to the spot and sent the body for autopsy and registered a case in this regard.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Rahul Kumar said that two youths, whom villagers claimed to have seen playing cards with Singh on Thursday evening, were detained for interrogation.
Kumar said that Singh’s sons Dushyant Singh and Rishi Singh were working in a cable factory in Amrawati in Maharashtra.
On the complaint of Rishi’s wife Dimpi, a case was registered.
Elsewhere in Bareilly, a truck driver and his helper were killed when their rice-laden truck caught fire after ramming into a stationary vehicle on Friday.
Truck’s owner and driver Rajiv (45) and his helper Ram Charan (32) were on their way to Delhi when the truck rammed into a stationary truck and went up in flames.
The bodies were sent for autopsy.