Petty dispute with the neighbour during a marriage function claimedthe life of a Pradhan in Shahjahanpur on Friday. Reports said that Gram Pradhan of Sunara Bujurg village, Neeraj Pandey(40), in Puyawa area of Shahjahenpur was shot dead late night on Friday by some people of his neighbour during a marriage ceremony. According to details, the dispute started when some people were fighting among themselves at the neighbour of the pradhan during a marriage function.
When the wife of the Pradhan objected, the people in inebriated condition started abusing her. On this Pradhan tried to intervene in which the miscreants suddenly opened fire and shot him dead from a close distance. The pradhan sustained three bullet injuries in which he died on the spot. The assailants escaped after the crime.
Police has launched a manhunt to nab the culprits and also a registered a case against them. Meanwhile in a separate case reported from Badaun, a police constable was arrested after a girl alleged that she was thrown off the roof of a police station by the accused. The victim, who was recuperating in a hospital after being seriously injured in the incident regained her consciousness on Friday after which an FIR was filed against the accused.
Constable Gaurav was arrested after the victim gave her statement alleging that she was thrown off the roof of Ujhani police station by him injuring her seriously, police said. According to the complaint, the incident took place on last Thursday. Further investigation is going on, police said, adding they are also probing as to how the girl reached to the roof of the police station.