law and order situation continued to worry Samajwadi Party government with criminals posed challenged in Agra killing a police constable, a jawan of Shashastra Seema Bal (SSB) fell prey to bullets after he tried to nab an accused sneaking through Nepal border with country made weapon in lakhimpur Kheri, an attempt to kill a sub-divisional magistrate has been made in Siddharthanagar, while over half a dozen more killings were reported from separate parts of the state during the last 24-hours.
In Agra, the cops of Malpura police station learnt that a listed criminal, lakhan Singh, who was released on bail just a week back was making celebration at his residence just to terrorise his opponents, on Wednesday night. A police team immediately rushed to lakhan Singh’s residence to take legal action but the matter took an ugly turn after lakhan and his family members opened fire at the police team killing one of the constable identified as Pradeep Kumar. The criminal also managed to slip out of his house and escaped. The body of Pradeep, who was native of Etah has been sent to his native village while teams were formed to trace out lakhan and his henchmen and to lay a trap on them.
In another incident reported from lakhimpur(UP), a constable of Shashtra Seema
Bal (SSB), Dharmendra Rai, attached with G Company of Third Battalion of SSB, was patrolling at Barsohla Kala Tikoniya in Kheri on Wednesday evening. Two more persons identified as Dileep Singh and Sabla aka Mehfooz Khan were also present at the Border Out Post (BOP). Reports said that Dharmendra Rai saw a suspected person having a bag in his hand crossing the border under mysterious circumstances. He intercepted the person and on query, the man revealed his identity as Pratap Singh, hailing from Gopalpur hamlet of Puranpur in Philibhit.
Reports further said that as the person opened his bag, Dharmendra saw and country made revolver inside so he pounced and tried to snatch the weapon from Pratap Singh’s hand but during scuffle, the accused managed to push the trigger hitting the bullet at Dharmendra, which later led to his death. Senior officers of SSB as well as SP lakhimpur Kheri, Arvind Sen rushed to the spot soon after learning of the incident and all out efforts have been made to nab the accused, who managed to escape.
In Siddharthnagar, sub-divisional magistrate of Itwa, Ram Surat Pandey, claimed that an attempt was made to kill him and his driver when he went to check illegal sand minning in the Patila area on Wednesday evening. He claimed that the accused Ghammal and Manish, had tried to crush them under the wheels of his tractor but luckily they just received injury. A case has been registered and efforts were made to nab the accused.
In one another incident reported from Azamgarh, a former village head was shot dead by unidentified men in Mehnazpur area on Thursday morning. Reports said that Ujagir Singh (49), was shot while he was out on morning walk in Kurehra Dular Singh village under Mehnazpur locality. The body was sent for autopsy and the cops were trying to ascertain motive behind the murder so that they could close down on the criminals. In a separate incident in Shahjahenpur, two persons were killed in a firing incident. Reports said that a tea-stall owner, Sudhir Kumar and Tasaduq, who runs a wood shop just adjacent to Sudhir’s tea stall, had a dispute over some over a petty matter on Wednesday night. The scuffle took an ugly turn when both the parties opened fire in in Ramkrishna Mission area, in which both along with two others, one form each side were critically injured. They were rushed to hospital where Sudhir and one of his cousin identified as Dileep Kumar succumbed to their injuries. Tasaduq’s, who also sustained a bullet injury was still battling for his life and was referred to Bareilly.
In Agra, 24-year-old Mahaweer, who is a farmer having his fields at Cheet area of Khairagarh, was sleeping at farm house when some unknown miscreants shot him dead in the wee hours of Thursday. In Rae Bareli, Tribhuwan aka Bade Yadav, a resident of Barwa hamlet of Beerpur, was sleeping with his second wife in the open courtyard of his house on Thursday morning when some unknown miscreants hacked Bade Yadav to death. local police which is investigating the matter suspected wife’s role as she was reportedly sleeping with the victim but in the night she shifted to another place just after which the killing took place.
In Muzaffarnagar, two unknown motorcycle borne miscreants had a dispute with Yatendra Sharma, an employee of Himalyan Filling Centre at Mansurpur area late on Wednesday night. The matter took an ugly turn when miscreants opened fire in which the employee was critically injured and escaped. Sharma was admitted in hospital where he succumbed. All out attempts were on to nab the accused.
In a separate incident reported from Sultanpur, 45-year-old Tilak Raj, hailing from Ahimane locality of Kotwali Dehat, was brutally battered to death by his nephew Ranjeet Verma, over property dispute while his wife and daughter were critically injured.
In Banda, Pukai Yadav, a resident of Jalalpur, was critically injured after he was shot at by his neighbour Munna, over some petty dispute on late Wednesday night. Similarly in Chandauli, Narad Kishori, a lawyer in local court, was standing outside his residence in Galla Mandi Mainatali in Mugalsarai, when some opened fire at him and escaped. Kishori was admitted in hospital. local police claimed lawyer’s dispute with his brother Manishankar over property probably led to attack.