Irked at his missing cell phone and suspecting his son as responsible for it, a man strangled his minor son in Alawalpur Madaiya hamlet of Kishni police station area in Mainpuri on Wednesday afternoon.
The man was arrested after the victim’s grandfather reported the matter to the police.
As per reports, Mukesh Batham looked for his phone at his home at Alawalpur Madaiya hamlet on Wednesday afternoon. On not finding it, he suspected his nine-year-old son Mithun of misplacing the cell phone. An incensed Mukesh later quizzed his son on this score and when he could not come up with the phone, he strangled Mithun to death.
The other family members tried to rescue the victim and rushed him to a nearby hospital but doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.
Later on the complaint of Mukesh’s father, the police registered a case of culpable homicide and arrested Mukesh.
Meanwhile, a school principal committed suicide in Lalitpur, while two infant siblings were buried alive after a wall collapsed on them in Unnao.
In Lalitpur, the principal of Jyotirao Phule Inter College at Sonrai village, Ramjeevan Ahirwar (32), ended his life by hanging himself in Chhayan village.
Police took the body in possession and sent it for autopsy.
The reason for committing suicide was said to be a domestic dispute.
The deceased’s younger brother, Arvind, claimed that his brother was the principal of the college owned by former MLA Feran Lal, for about one and a half years. On Tuesday, he went to the college and returned home around 9 pm. After dinner, he went to his bedroom on the first floor of the house while his wife and their two kids slept in a ground floor bedroom.
When Ramjeevan Ahirwar did not wake up till 8 am on Wednesday, Arvind knocked on the door of his room, but got no response. As he broke open the door, he found Ramjeevan's body hanging. Later the police reached the spot and sent the body for autopsy.
Elsewhere in Unnao, the wall of a house suddenly collapsed on two siblings playing outside the house causing their death in Behta Mujawar police station area on Wednesday morning.
As per reports, Zakir Ahmad’s daughter Shifa (4) and son Adnan (2) were playing outside their home at Argupur village and as they neared their neighbour Saddiq's house, a wall suddenly collapsed on them. Soon, passersby and a large number of villagers reached there and extricated the two infants from the rubble and rushed them to the nearest community health centre at Bangarmau where the doctor pronounced them dead.