In yet another case of honour killing, a man was shot allegedly by the family members of his wife who later dumped his body in near-by jungle to hush-up the matter in Meerut on Thursday evening. A case was registered in this regard and efforts were on to trace out the accused and arrest them.
Reports said that 40-tear-old Yogesh, hailing from Muzaffarnagar, was in a relationship with the girl residing in Bhawana area of Meerut. After facing opposition from the family members, the couple went ahead with their marriage in a local court and were staying separately from their families in Meerut since about past one year. Reports further said that agitated with the marriage, the family members of the girl said to have invited Yogesh for a patch-up on last Tuesday. Yogesh, who suspected foulplay informed about it his family members before he left to meet his in-laws on last Tuesday evening. However, when he not returned, Yogesh’s family launched a hunt for him and claimed to have finally recovered the body lying unclaimed in the jungles of Sathla hamlet of Meerut on Thursday evening.
The victim was having gun shot injuries and circumstantial evidences suggested that he was killed some where else and later his body was dumped there. later with the help of some local villagers the family members also recovered the mobile phone of the victim and his other belongings. Surprisingly when the family members went to enquire the matter at the house of the girl they were shocked to find everyone absconding which further pointed that they killed Yogesh and dumped his body before slipping out of their home to evade arrest. The body of he victim was shifted for autopsy test and further investigations are on in this regard.
Meanwhile unidentified miscreants struck terror in Fatehpur district when they gunned down a rice mill owner and his wife and critically injured their children before fleeing with the booty worth several lakh rupees. Reports said that over half dozen armed miscreants barged inside the house of Gaya Prasad (80), at Sarkandi locality of Bindki in the wee hours of Friday. They attacked Gaya Prasad, who also owned Umrao Rice Mill in the same area, along with his 75-year-old wife Somwati and children - Bhupendra (35) and Abhimanyu (30), and swept costly booty which included cash and ornaments and escaped.
The neighbours who rushed after hearing the cry for help of the victims shifted them to a private hospital in Kanpur where both Gaya Prasad and Somwati were pronounced dead upon arrival while condition of sons were also stated to be critical. A case was registered and efforts were on trace out the identity of the accused and subsequently to lay a trap on them. Meanwhile two members of a family were said to be electrocuted and another was seriously injured when a high tension wire fell over them in Pradhanpur hamlet of Rasra in Balia on early Friday morning. Reports said that a high tension wire suddenly broke and fell over a village in which Meera Devi (35) and her niece Nidhi (3) who were sleeping on a cot came in contact and were roasted alive. Meera Devi's daughter Neha (5) who was also with them suffered serious burn injuries and has been admitted to a hospital.