A 35-year-old farmer was abducted on Saturday and later brutally murdered in Meerut. His body was recovered by the police late on Monday night.
As per reports, farmer Paramjeet (35) of Fatehpur Prem village of Hastinapur police station area went missing under suspicious circumstances since Saturday evening. He had gone to a doctor in Tarapur area to get medicine for his mother. After getting a call from a friend identified as Pintu, he left his mother and did not return. Paramjeet's brother Buta Singh lodged a report suspecting his brother's kidnapping.
The police, along with senior officers and the family members, launched a hunt for Paramjeet but on Monday night, they got the information that an unknown body was seen lying in a sugarcane field in Tarapur Fatehpur Prem Road in Hastinapur, adjacent to Meerut.
The police rushed to the spot and after recovering the body, summoned the family members who identified the victim as that of missing Paramjeet. The police later picked up Paramjeet’s friend Pintu and subjected him to sustained grilling after which he broke down and confessed to the crime. On tips provided by Pintu, police also arrested his aides identified as Ombir Singh, Naubat and Harendra of Fatehpur Prem.
During preliminary investigation, it surafced that Paramjeet was murdered after he objected to a relationship between Pintu with a woman in his family. Pintu and Paramjeet were close friends.
Meanwhile in a suspected case of double murder in Ballia, bodies of a father-son duo were recovered from separate places in a village on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Uma Shankar Singh (60) and his son Vikram Singh (26). The villagers found Vikram dead in a well in the Haldi area of Sonavani village with injuries on his body. When police reached his residence, his father, Uma Shankar was also found dead. The bodies were sent for autopsy and a probe was underway.