In a suspected case of honour killing, a 23-year-old girl was strangled by her father and uncles for marrying against the family’s wishes in Kaimai area of Barabanki. A case was registered and the father of the victim was arrested. Efforts were underway to nab the other absconding culprits.
As per reports, Priti of Chamrahi area of Dewa in Barabanki had an affair with her neighbour Sandeep Gautam. For the last 12 months, she tried to convince her family to accept the relation but the latter was opposed to her marriage outside her caste. Frustrated with the family’s stand, she eloped with her beau to Ambala and got married.
last Monday, she and her husband returned to the village to attend the marriage function of a kin of Sandeep. As Priti’s father Harilal Gautam learnt of her visit, he called his daughter claiming that her mother wanted to meet her once.
The unsuspecting Priti accompanied her father to her erstwhile home where Harilal and her uncles identified as Ram lumar, Harinam and Ram Kunwar strangled her. They packed her body in a gunny bag and dumped her in the nearby jungles. later the killers locked the house and escaped.
Priti’s husband Sandeep lodged a complaint of her disappearance and during the probe, Hariram was detained on suspicion. During quizzing, he confessed to commiting the murder and narrated the sequnce of events to the police.On the basis of his information, Priti’s body was recoveredon Wednesday night.
In Muzaffarnagar, a girl student was allegedly abducted by unidentified men offering to give her a lift while she was waiting to go to her college at Rampurtiraha on Muzaffarnagar-Deoband highway on Wednesday afternoon.
On being informed the police rushed to the spot and launched a search operation. The girl studies in Unani Medical College at Deoband.
Meanwhile five persons including two cops were killed in separate mishaps.
In Amroha, a police party went to arrest a person in Rampur on Wednesday night. While returning, their jeep collided with a tractor and caught fire at Rajabpur area of Faiyaznagar in which sub-inspector Arvind Kumar, constables Sunil Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, woman constable lalita, driver Raju and another occupant Subash were injured. They were rushed to District Hospital where Sunil Kumar was pronounced dead upon arrival.
In another mishap in Mathura, constable Omveer (35) posted at Kosikala police station was knocked down by some unknown vehicle at NH-2 and died on the spot on Wednesday. A case was registered and the body was send for autopsy.
In anotehr case reported from Mathura, three persons were killed while cleaning a septic tank of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu temple on Thursdayafternoon. The deceased included a Mahant (priest) of the temple. SP City Shailesh Pandey said that these people died after they inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning the tank situated near Chakleshwar Mahadev. The cleaning work was being done after three decades and Mahant Tulsidas asked one of his followers to enter the tank and later followed him.
When they did not emerge from the tank for a long time, a third person entered into it and he too did not return. This triggered panic among the locals who informed the police. later their bodies were fished out of the tank and a case was registered in this regard.