A gram pradhan was brutally hacked to death in Mainpuri on Monday. Agitated with the brutal killing, the local villagers also staged a demonstration. They later called off the protest on assurance of action against the guilty.
Reports said that 55-year-old Harish Chandra Singh, native of Annuduttpur hamlet of Aaucha in Mainpuri, who was local pradhan (Also head of pradhan sangh in the district), went to check the construction work of road laid under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Gurantee Act, on Monday morning. The road was passing through the fields of one Anirudh in Ikri hamlet. Reports said that Anirudh objected taking road from his fields which resulted into his confrontation with the pradhan. The matter took an ugly turn when Anirudh and four of his henchmen suddenly attacked the pradhan with axe and rod and brutally hacked him to death. later they escaped from the spot. The local residents blocked traffic movement between Mainpuri-Aaucha road and staged a demonstration against the killing. later a case was registered against
Anirudh and four others and a hunt was launched to nab them. Meanwhile five persons were killed in two separate mishaps. In the first case reported from Auraiya, Brijesh, a resident of Jaitipur in Phaphund was going to his in-laws house along with his wife and two children on Monday morning. Near railway station at Achalda, the family found the railway gate closed so the couple crossed after passing under the barrier but their children - Kamini (6) and
Rustam (4)- were trapped midway and were crushed to death after coming under the wheels of Marudhar Express passing through the track. A case was registered and their bodies were sent for post-mortem examination. In Fatehpur, an old dilapidated temporary house at Selraha hamlet of Khaga belonging to one Ayodhya Prasad suddenly caved in due to incessant rains in which 7 members of the family were trapped on early Monday morning. The local villagers rushed and somehow removed the debris and shifted the victims to district hospital where three of them -Ayodhya Prasad’s 57-year- old wife Kalawati, his 30-year-old daughter Nisha, and 3- year-old grandson Babu were pronounced dead upon arrival. A case was registered and their bodies were sent for autopsy test.