In a broad daylight shoot-out, a Samajwadi Party (SP) local leader was sprayed with bullets in Madhuban locality of Mau on Tuesday. local police which rushed to the spot soon after getting the message launched a hunt for the killers.
Reports said that Badri Yadav (55), a resident of Ramaupur hamlet of Madhuban in Mau, who was also secretary of the SP in Madhuban Assembly constituency, was going along with one Vinod Yadav on a motorcycle when they were intercepted at Gaziapur bandha by half a dozen armed miscreants one of whom was later on identified as Awadesh Yadav, on Tuesday morning.
The miscreants opened fire burst in which Badri Yadav was seriously injured. The local residents who rushed after hearing the gun shots shifted Badri Yadav to hospital where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. Superintendent of Police in Mau, Dinesh Chandra Dubey said that the accused Vinod and Badri were having old enmity and they were looking into it. Raids were also conducted to arrest the accused but they were found absconding from their houses. Meanwhile a 50-year-old man was also crushed to death after coming under the police jeep in Chilma Bazar locality of Basti on Monday evening.
The mishap also triggered protests from locals who staged a roadblock demanding arrest of the policemen involved in the incident. The victim identified as Swaleen was run over by the jeep of Dubaulia station officer on Monday evening when he had gone to the market. The jeep driver and the SO fled from the spot after which the agitating locals blocked the road demanding their arrest. The blockade was lifted after the circle officer assured the protesters that an FIR will be lodged against the SO.
In another case eight persons, including three women, were injured and one was killed when a tractor trolley they were travelling in came into contact with an electricity wire in laar area of Deoria , a senior police official said. The incident took place this morning when an iron pipe of the tractor trolley, carrying 25 kanwariyas, came into contact with a live wire in Baulia ward. Four of the injured were being treated at community health centre, whereas two were admitted to the district hospital.
The remaining victims have been referred to Gorakhpur Medical College where one of them identified as Phoola Devi succumbed to her injuries. In a separate case reported from Farukabad, three persons were killed and seven injured in a head-on collision between a tempo and an Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus in Farukkabad on Monday evening. The injured were admitted to a nearby hospital where condition of five of them was stated to be in critical.