Panic gripped the district courts in Etawah on Friday afternoon, when unidentified miscreants opened fire to ensure the release of two undertrials facing murder charges. The miscreants also threw chilli powder on policemen escorting the criminals.
While one of the undertrials managed to escape, some lawyers responded to the cops and nabbed the second one and handed over to the police. A case was registered and teams were formed to nab the criminal and his aides.
As per reports, Surendra alias Adesh alias Sunder and his brother Jitendra aka Bablu both lodged Etawah district jail were taken to a local court for hearing on Friday noon. As they were beingtaken to a court by the cops, their cohorts threw chilli powder at the cops and later opened fire in the air to terrorise the crowd.
The gunmen managed to free both undertrials and jumped over the court boundary to flee. However some lawyers chased them and managed to nab Surendra, who was later handed over to the cops.
Meanwhile in Pratapgarh, a Shashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan, who was on leave, was hacked to death by a spade by two unknown persons in Ibrahimpur locality of Hathigawa on Friday morning.
The accused Harish Chandra Patel and Ram Chandra have been detained for killing Panna lal Saroj (31) while the latter was working at his field. The body was sent for autopsy.
In another bizarre case reported from Chitrakoot, a woman battered her 40-year-old husband after being fed up with his drinking habit.
Kamladevi of Gadakhan hamlet of Karvi (Chitrakoot) was having problems in running the household and raising her two children Shiv Singh and Prahlad, as her husband Prabhat Chandra Patel splurged his earnings on drinking. Recently Kamladevi took a job to ease the financial pressure. But the errant husband snatched her earning after assaulting her to buy liquor. late on Thursday, Prabhat once again tried to browbeat Kamla Devi and deprive her of her earning. The woman who had had enought, picked up a stick and fatally attacked the husband. A case was registered and the body was sent for autopsy.