A clash between two groups over a trivial issue in Kethoda village under Miranpur police station of Muzaffarnagar district claimed one life and left about half a dozen persons injured.
Circle Officer Shakeel Ahmed said that some people were drinking alcohol on Monday night and then a dispute broke out between Qasim Pehalwan (55) and others. He said that within no time the dispute took a violent turn and sticks and stones were used openly.
He said that in this dispute, three people from one party were injured and they were taken to the hospital where Qasim Pehalwan was pronounced dead. The CO said that the police had registered a case against five people who were absconding.
Meanwhile, in the Shohratgarh area of Siddharth Nagar district, a 58-year-old woman, Shanno Bano, lost her life while trying to save her 29-year-old son, Mohammad Salim, from a mob. Salim had been accused of mobile theft and was lynched by a mob near their house. Shanno intervened to rescue him, but the mob also attacked her, resulting in critical injuries. She was rushed to the hospital where she succumbed to her injuries during treatment.
Circle Officer of Shohratgarh, Garvit Singh, said that based on surveillance and statements of local people, two accused identified as Amit Kumar and Imran Khan had been arrested, while efforts were on to nab the remaining accused.
He further said that the woman was inside her house, and her husband had gone to work. When she heard Salim crying loudly for help, she ran outside to save him, and in the process was hit on the head with a stick. She immediately fell to the ground in a pool of blood.
The murder has sparked outrage in the area and local people demanded stern action against the accused. The police have assured stern action against the accused.
Meanwhile in one more killing in Mainpuri, a wife killed her husband with the help of her paramour after the two were caught in compromising positions late on Monday night. The incident came to notice when the wife and her paramour were shifting the body on a motorcycle to conceal the crime.
According to reports, Sumit Kumar, a truck driver of Yaduvansh Nagar, Mainpuri, lived with his wife, mother-in-law and other family members. Sumit unexpectedly arrived home late Monday night and caught his wife in a compromising position with another man.
As Sumit objected, the wife and her paramour hit him on the head with an iron rod and brutally battered him to death. They then put the body on a motorcycle and planned to dump it to conceal the crime.
However, their plan failed when some family members woke up upon hearing the sound of a motorcycle. They discovered the woman and an unknown youth holding Sumit’s body on the motorcycle. The family members raised an alarm, prompting both the accused to abandon the body and flee from the spot.
The family members informed the police about the incident. The body was sent for post-mortem and further investigations are on. Police also launched a hunt for the wife and her paramour.