Close on the heels of killing of a scribe allegedly by a state minister, now an RTI activist was brutally battered to death by a pradhan in Bahraichon Saturday. Surprisingly the incident took place in broad daylight but due to terror of the pradhan, none of the residents came forward to rescue of the victim. However, the local police which registered a case in this regard later swung into action and claimed to have arrested the pradhan, but his other henchmen involved in the killing were still absconding. The killing reportedly took place as the victim tried to expose the corruption of the pradhan.
Brijrani, a native Sagveer hamlet of Hardigaura in Bahraich, claimed that her husband Guru Prasad, was a social worker and was trying to expose the corruption made by the local pradhan, Triloki Nath Dubey, in development work made in the area. She said that her husband filed many RTI seeking information about the development work carried out in the area as well as the money spent on it. She said that Triloki Nath, was very upset with her husband’s move and had warned them several times of dire consequences.
Brijrani said that on Saturday morning, Triloki Nath along with his cohorts whom she identified as Ghanshyam, Vijay Shankar, Sunil Kumar, Neeraj Kumar, Narendra Kumar Mishra, and some unknown persons struck at her house. She said that they all were equipped with sticks and rods in their hands. She said that the accused barged inside her house and pulled her husband out. later the pradhan threatened my husband to take back the RTI application or be ready to face the consequences. She said that when her husband refused and showed his determination to expose the rampant corruption, the accused brutally assaulted her husband with sticks and rods and after ensuring that he was dead, they escaped. It was only when the miscreants slipped, the local villagers, who remained mute spectator till then, shifted the injured to district hospital but the doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. The village pradhan, Triloki Nath was arrested in the matter.
Meanwhile in another incident also reported from Bahraich, an alleged exorcist sacrificed his eighteen-month-old niece and took out her organs to perform exorcism in Motipur area. Reports said that Neetu alias Gudiya was kidnapped by her uncle Rakesh Kumar on Friday morning while she was asleep and killed after taking her outside the village. later he dissected the body and took out the heart and kidney, local police claimed. When the victim’s father, Chandrika Prasad, reached the spot searching for his daughter, he found that Rakesh was preparing to perform exorcism with the body and the organs. The accused has been arrested along with his lover Phulau as she is suspected to be his accomplice. Superintendent of Police in Bharaich, Neha Pandey along with other officers reached the spot and quizzed both of the accused following which Rakesh confessed of killing his niece. Further investigation in the case is underway.