In a sensational broad daylight incident in Sitapur, a mahant was critically injured after unidentified miscreants attacked him with sharp-edged weapons on Tuesday afternoon.
The victim was rushed to the district hospital from where he was referred to the KGMU Trauma Centre in Lucknow.
Senior police officers reached the spot soon after learning about the incident and were trying to confirm the identity of the assailants.
The attack was made over some property related dispute.
Sitapur's District Magistrate Vishal Bharadwaj and Superintendent of Police, RP Singh claimed that the mahant was out of danger. They said teams had been formed to nab the accused.
Reports said that Bajrang Das Muni, Mahant of Kamal Sarai Udaseen Ashram in Chakratirth area of Khairabad, was having a dispute over a mango orchard land. On Tuesday afternoon, the opponents attacked him when he was present with his followers near his ashram. The miscreants stabbed him and of his three followers with knives, injuring him critically.
Senior police officers were camping in the area and making further investigation to identify the assailants and nab them.
Meanwhile in Jaunpur, a gram pradhan was shot dead by bike-borne miscreants in the Saraikhwaja area on Tuesday morning.
Police sources said that outgoing gram pradhan Rajkumar Yadav (59) was on his way to Jaunpur on his bike at around 3 pm on Tuesday. However, bike-borne miscreants overtook Yadav on the way and fired five rounds, fatally injuring him. The motive behind the murder is stated to be enmity.
He was rushed to the district hospital by police but the doctors pronounced him dead.
Enraged with the incident, locals created a jam in the Koyiridiha market and demanded the arrest of the assailants. A manhunt is on for the accused.
In Saharanpur, a man immolated himself after making a video viral owing to a dispute with his wife in the Behat Kotwali area, police sources said on Tuesday. As per reports, Abdul (35), a resident of Rasulpur in the Behat area, was involved in a dispute with his wife for a long time. Even the local panchayat could not solve their dispute.
Abdul set himself on fire before making a viral video. In the viral video, Abdul accused his wife and several other people responsible for his death.
Kotwali Inspector Rajkumar Sharma on Tuesday said that the police were investigating the matter.