Unidentified miscreants killed a woman while she was heading to her parents’ house in Azamgarh on Thursday morning.
Some residents of Ramanpur village in Kandhrapur police station area spotted the body of a woman lying on the fringes of the village and alerted the village pradhan. He in turn informed the police after a team reached there.
The victim had injuries on the back of her head and she was seemingly hit by a blunt heavy object like hammer. The police later identifed the victim as Sangeeta (36) of Ramanpur village in Kandhrapur police station area. He husband lalit Kumar told the police that Sangeeta had left for her parents’ house who live in a neighbouring village.
“She left the house on Wednesday evening and we thought she might have reached there. We got to know of her murder on Thursday only,” the husband told the police while being quizzed. A case was registered and the body was sent for autopsy.
Meanwhile in lakhmipur Kheri, armed miscreants stormed three houses in Maigalganj police station area and decamped with large quantity of jewellery and Rs 18,000 from the houses on Wednesday night.
House owners Jagdish and Ashok Kumar of Pakariya village and Brijendra Bajpai of Mohabbat Nagar and their family members were asleep when the miscreants struck.
They brigands, who were armed with armed, held the inmates at gun point and took them hostage. They later stashed the available casha nd valuables fro the houses and later slipped away from the scene of crime. The police has registered a case of dacoity and investigations are underway.