Two persons were killed while half a dozen were seriously injured when two gunmen opened indiscriminate fire in the posh Shantipur Colony of Kotwali area in Kasganj late Thursday evening.
Surprisingly, the local police who reached the spot after half an hour took little steps to hunt down the miscreants who were engaged in such activities regularly.
The locals claimed that goons had dared them to inform the police claiming that they had connection in the state government. However on Thursday, the locals staged a huge demonstration forcing the cops to arrest both accused.
As per reports, Balram Yadav of Govindpuri Colony in Kotwali police station area in Kasganj and his aide Monu Yadav were trying to establish their hegemony in the area and used to open fire frequently to terrorise the locals.
On Thursday evening, the two miscreants came in an inebriated state and opened indiscriminate fire in which Ganga Bhallabh Sharma, another resident Saransh Joshi (18) were killed on the spot while half a dozen others were injured in the shoot-out.
The injured where taken to district hospital where condition of Ganga’s son Anuj Sharma, Rama Devi, Munni Devi were stated to be critical. Anuj was later shifted to Agra.
Reports further said that the panic-stricken locals scampered to the safety of their homes and informed the police but the cops reached the scene only after the two gunmen escaped. The cops did not raid their houses to look for them Agitated with the police stand, local residents staged a dharna demanding action against the killers and the supine cops. later fearing action by the seniors, the local cops swung into action and claimed to have arrested the accused in the wee hours of Friday.
Meanwhile in Wtah, a 27-year-old dalit man was charred to death after being set fire in his house at Kherpura village lateThursday night. Santosh Kumar was sleeping on a heap of dry grass when Bobby and his associates, set the hay stack on fire. Santosh was charred to death by the time his family members could come to his rescue.
The father of the deceased said in the FIR that his son was killed due to old enmity. A case was registered and efforts were being made to arrest the absconding accused.
Meanwhile in Sonebhadra, a jilted lover reportedly killed his flame before committingd suicide. The body of two teenagers with bullet injury marks on their temples were found near a nullah at Chakiya hamlet of Raipur. A revolver was also found lying beside the bodies.
The identity of the victims were later established as Sunita (20) and Pankaj Kesari (22) of Beni locality of Raipur. Sunita was reported missing since Thursday evening. locals said that Pankaj was trailing Sunita for a quite long time so the girl’s father married her off. Irked with the move, Pankaj probably shot Sunita sometime on Thursday evening and later committed ended his life. A case was registered and investigations were on.