Over half a dozen persons were murdered in separate areas of the State since Monday night.
In Gorakhpur, a 26-year-old man allegedly hanged himself to death after killing his wife and son in Pochiya village. Dilip Nishad, who had some dispute with his wife Maya (25), reportedly strangulated her to death along with his 11-months old son lucky (11) and then committed suicide by hanging himself sometime in the wee hours of Tuesday. local police registered a case and is making further investigation. The bodies were sent for post-mortem and report in awaited.
In Ballia, a 35-year-old man was shot dead by his distant relative over a land dispute in Alampur village in Gadwar area,on Tuesday morning. Reports said that Shiv Narain Singh (35), was shot by his kin Chandan Singh on early Tuesdaymorning. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared `brought dead’ upon arrival. local police cited land dispute as motive behind the killing. A case was registered in this regard and police has launched a manhunt to nab the accused.
In a separate case reported from Mathura, a godman of Kirar Ashram was
allegedly killed by some unidentified miscreants who relentlessly beat him using bricks on the godman. The deceased has been identified as Baba Parmender Das. The incident took place on Monday night when unknown persons entered Kirar Ashram in Goverdhan area and killed the godman by thrashing him with bricks and stones. Surprisingly three followers of Baba were sleeping by his side but they failed to notice of the incident. Police is probing the matter to nab the culprits and to ascertain the reason behind the murder.
In Mirjapur, a youth killed his father-in-law and injured two other in-laws after they refused to send his wife with him. Reports said that Pankaj Singh, went to collect his wife from his father-in-law Ram Narain Singh’s residence at Mawasi Khurd in Haliya locality of Mirajpur, on Tuesday morning. When Ram Narain refused to send his daughter, Pankaj Singh lost his cool and he attacked Ram Narain along with his sister Reshma Devi and her husband Yashwant Singh with sharp edged weapons in which all the three were critically injured. local residents who nabbed Pankaj, rushed the victims to hospital where Ram Narain was pronounced dead upon arrival.
In a separate case reported from Allahabad, a woman and her daughter were killed. Reports said that some unknown miscreants barged inside the house of one Suryakali (55), a resident of Nibikala locality in Jhusi in the wee hours ofTuesday. The miscreants brutally attacked Suryakali and her daughter Purnima (30), and hacked both to death before fleeing from the spot. A case has been registered and efforts were on trace out the killer and nab them.