In a sensational killing, a farmer was beheaded while he was sleeping outside his house in a village in Kannauj Sadar, police said on Sunday.
Kailash (50) was found dead with his head severed in Jalalpur Thakuran village on Saturday night.
Superintendent of Police Kunwar Anupam Singh said on Sunday that an FIR was lodged against three people in this incident and the police were investigating the case. He said the killers would be arrested soon.
Police have detained a person and were grilling him in the killing.
Meanwhile, Himanshu Gupta, a first year MBBS student at Saifai Institute of Medical Sciences in Etawah, died under suspicious circumstances.
The death was reported to the local police and the cops broke open the door and found the student hanging from the noose. He was rushed to the hospital with the help of students where doctors pronounced him dead.
The police informed the relatives of the deceased about the death. The student's parents reached Saifai medical college, and alleged that the warden and security personnel murdered and hanged the body. They claimed that there were wounds on the body of the deceased and that blood was coming out of his mouth.
“If our son had hanged himself, there would have been no wounds on his body,” they said. The mother of the deceased has appealed to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for justice in the matter.
Himanshu Gupta, a native of Gorakhpur, used to live in the room of Shakyamuni Hostel. He was admitted to the MBBS course this year on handicapped quota.
The police have till now made no statement whether the student committed suicide or the body was hanged after killing him. The cause of death will be clear only after the post-mortem report.
In another incident reported from Bhadokhar police station area of Rae Bareli, two motorcycle riders died on the spot after a car hit their two-wheeler near Dulaganj on Pratapgarh-Jaunpur highway, while the third rider died in the hospital.
Subhash Chandra (40), a resident of Bhuvanshah of Bhadokhar police station area, along with local residents Harish Chandra (50) and Raj Kumar (40) were returning home from Salon by a motorcycle. As soon as their motorcycle reached near Dulaganj, the tyre of a speeding car coming from the opposite side burst and the vehicle hit the motorcycle, killing Subhash, Harishchandra on the spot. Raj Kumar (40) died in the district hospital. A case was registered and the bodies were sent for autopsy.
In Etah, two teenage girls were killed and over a dozen pilgrims were injured when a tractor-trolley returning from Vrindavan overturned on Sunday.
The incident took place on the Etah-Agra highway near Babasa village.
Circle Officer K Singh said the tractor-trolley carrying pilgrims overturned and rolled down into a roadside ditch.
The two girls were identified as Shristi (12) and Nita (15). The condition of another girl, Arti (15), was stated to be critical. She was rushed to Agra for better treatment. The condition of others was stated to be stable.
In another mishap in Amethi, 12 passengers were injured when a bus collided with a timbre-laden tractor-trolley on the Lucknow-Varanasi highway late on Saturday night. Police sources said that out of the 12 injured, nine were admitted for treatment at Jagdishpur community health centre and four of them were referred to the district hospital.