In a shocking killing at lakhimpur Kheri, a man beheaded his 50-year-old wife in a fit of raege early Monday morning and walked down to the a nearby police outpost carrying the severed head in his hands and surrendered.
The cops later rushed to the scene of crime and sent the severed head and body for autopsy. The husband, identified as Ram Sewak, was arrested and sent to jail.
As per reports, Ram Sewak and his wife Usha Devi had an argument over a family matter on Monday morning. “Sewak lost his temper and brutally attacked his wife with a ‘khurpa’ (shovel like tool) beheading her in the process. He then went to Behjam police outpost with his wife’s severed head and surrendered. A case of murder was lodged and Ram Sewak has been sent to jail,” Station Officer of Neemgaon police station, DK Singh said.
Singh said the couple used to reside at Behjam are of the district and gone to the fields for routine work on Monday morning. “There they had an argument after which Ram Sewak killed his wife. The villagers said that Ram Sewak was mentally unstable and had earlier chased his brother in a fit of anger,” Singh said. Investigations are on by the police.
Meanwhile three more killings were reported across the state on Monday.
In Muzaffarnagar, a 40-year-old contractor Abrar Khan was shot dead by unidentified persons as he was sleeping at a mango orchard on the outskirts of Mujhse village in Puranpur area on Sunday night. The miscreants shot him in the night and his body was recovered in a pool of blood of Monday morning. A case was registered and the body was sent for autopsy. Efforts were being made to ascertain the motive behind the murder and arrest the culprits.
Elsewhere in Pratapgarh, Sonu (28) of Sada Ka Purwa in Jethwara police station area went to sleep on the terrace on Sunday night. The next morning, his family members found Sonu lying in a pool of blood on the terrace. Unknown miscreants had hacked him to death with sharp edged weapons late on Sunday night. The motive behind the killing was not yet clear but cops suspected that the killing could be a fall out over a love-related dispute.
The last case was reported from Rae Bareli wherein Sumit Patel (22) of Halore area of Maharajganj, met with an accident after his motorcycle was hit by an Alto car owned by Dan Bahadur Singh’s son-in-law on Sunday evening. On Monday, Sumit went to Dan Bahadhur’s house to register his protest as the driver escaped after hitting his bike. Meanwhile his son-in-law lost his cool and opened indiscriminate fire critically injuring Sumit and Shree Narain. They were rushed to the district hospital where Sumit succumbed. A case was registered but no one could be arrested so far.