In a tragic incident, a man fatally shot himself after shooting his 7-year-old son and father-in-law dead and critically injuring his wife in Rampur Maniharan police station area of Saharanpur on Monday morning.
The trigger to the incident is said to be a family dispute.
After preliminary investigation, the police said that Sachin along with three aides attacked his in-laws’ house at Jaankhera village around 6 am on Monday and started firing indiscriminately at them.
In the firing, his minor son Anshul and father-in-law Parshuram were killed on the spot. His wife Monika was critically injured and had to be hospitalised.
After the incident, Sachin ended his life by shooting himself with a pistol.
As per reports, Sachin married Monika eight year ago. Two years on, there was a dispute between the couple and Monika started living with her parents and was with them for the past six years. Sachin tried to resolve the issue and take back his family, but the in-laws refused. Even his entry into the in-law’s place was stopped.
On Monday morning, an angry Sachin backed by three aides came to his in-laws’ place and attacked them. Earlier, Sachin had shot his brother-in-law dead.
Senior police officials rushed to the spot and shifted the injured wife to a hospital.
A probe was on in this regard.
Elsewhere in Banda, a man, Raju Patel, allegedly raped a 40-year-old woman working in an agricultural field in Naraini area last Saturday.
An FIR was lodged by the victim’s family on Sunday night and police launched a hunt to arrest the accused.
Meanwhile in Muzaffarnagar, eight labourers were seriously injured when a boiler exploded at a steel factory near Salarpur village on Sunday. The injured were rushed to a hospital.
Assistant Labour Commissioner Pratibha Tiwari visited the site and ordered an inquiry into the incident.
In another incident in Banda, a 62-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a speeding jeep at Korram village under Baberu police station on Sunday.
Shanti Devi was returning home from the fields when she was hit by the speeding jeep and died on the spot.
The police registered a case against the jeep driver and sent the body of the deceased for autopsy.
Meanwhile at Firozabad, at least 25 people were injured when a Volvo bus hit a truck on Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Monday morning.
The bus was going from Agra to Lucknow and it rammed into the truck from behind in Matsaina area.
The condition of three passengers was stated to be critical and they were rushed to a hospital.