Unidentified miscreants suspected to members of criminal tribe popularly known as `Kutchcha Baniyan’ gang struck terror in Bareilly when they brutally battered a couple and their two children to death before fleeing with the looted booty. local police and senior officers who reached the spot claimed that circumstantial evidences suggested that the all the four were killed sometime on late Monday night. However, the sensational crime only came to notice on Wednesday morning. The bodies were sent for post-mortem examination and further investigations are on.
Reports said that 42-year-old Naresh Sethi, an lIC agent also engaged in property dealing business, was living with his wife Shikha (40) son Shubham (15), and daughter Ashtha (14), in Veersawarkar locality of Gayatari Colony under Izzatnagar police station area in Bareilly. On Wednesday morning, when the family members were not seen and both the children also not went to their school for the last two days, their school van driver reached Naresh Sethi’s residence to check on the family. When he found the door lying opened but no one responding and bad smell also coming out the house, he suspected foul play and alerted the neighbors.
later the neighbors called the police which reached the spot. As they entered inside, they found all the belongings scattered on floor while bodies of Sethi, his wife Shikha (45), son Shubham (15) and daughter Astha (12) were also found lying in pool of blood. All the four were brutally attacked with some blunt object and only when they died, the criminals swept the booty and escaped.
Meanwhile in another report from Kaushambi, a father was allegedly
hacked to death by his son in Andawa village. The incident took place when 63-year-old Ameer Singh was repeatedly hit by his son Yogesh with an axe, killing him on the spot, on Wednesday morning. The body of the victim has been sent for postmortem, but the motive behind the killing could not be ascertained yet. Efforts were also on to nab the son who absconded soon after the killing.
In yet another killing reported from Chitrakut, a man was just shot dead after some local dacoits suspected the victim to be working as `informer’ for the local police. Reports said that 25-year-old Ram Karan Yadav, a native of Dodamafi hamlet of Markundi in Chitrakut, was going to purchase milk when some unknown miscreants shot him dead on Wednesday morning. The family members named dreaded dacoits Babli Kol, lavkesh Kol, and their other associates and alleged that the victim was killed just as the accused took him to be a police informer. The dacoits on earlier occasion had threatened Ram Karan with dire consequences. A case has been registered and efforts were made to nab the accused.