The members of criminal tribe popularly known as `kutchcha baniyan’ continued to struck terror when they killed a 55-year-old man and seriously injured his wife, before fleeing with the booty in Hathras in the wee hours of Tuesday. Only on Monday, the members of the gang struck in about half a dozen houses at Santkabirnagar and killed one person before fleeing with booty worth over lakh rupees.
According to reports from Hathras, over half a dozen miscreants armed with sticks and rods broke entered into the house of one Satyaveer Singh, a native of Madhuwa hamlet of Sasani, and brutally assaulted him and his wife Mamata Jatav, after they offered resistance. later the miscreants swept ornaments and costly belongings along with cash and escaped from the spot. The injured couple were rushed to District Hospital where Satyaveer succumbed to his injuries while Mamata was still battling for her life.
The accused after fleeing from Satyaveer’s house also reportedly stolen some cattle of the villagers before leaving the village. An FIR has been registered in this connection against unidentified persons, and teams were formed to trace out the criminals. However, no arrests have been made in the matter so far.
It may be mentioned that on Monday, about a dozen unknown armed miscreants entered into the house of one Chintamani Tripathi (40)l, at Gyatripuram Gauspur area of Kalilabad, at Santkabirnagar, and later at adjacent house owned by Gama Prasad, and looted ornaments and goods worth several lakh rupees along with Rs 70,000 in cash. The miscreants also brutally assaulted Chintamani, along with his land-lord Satish Chandra, Satish’s son Govind, Satish’s daughter Rimjhim, and some other villagers identified Shiv Shakti aka Kinnu, Sarvesh Srivastava, Gama etc. All the injured were shifted to hospital where Chintamani was pronounced dead upon arrival while condition of two others was stated to be critical. local police which rushed to the spot claimed that the criminals targeted five houses in the area and escaped only after the local villagers came out of their houses.