In a sensational killing in Azamgarh, the local police found the beheaded body of a youth lying near Basti Ugar-Patti village under Kandharapur police station on Thursday morning.
Soon after being informed about the beheaded body, senior police officials rushed to the spot along with cops from Kandharapur and Rani's Sarai police stations and started investigation. They also summoned the district's Special Operation Group (SOG) and forensic teams to help them in cracking the case.
Superintendent of Police of Azamgarh, Anurag Arya, also inspected the spot.
According to reports, some passers-by spotted a headless body lying on the Basti Ugar-Patti area under Kandharapur police station area.
SP Anurag Arya said the victim appeared to be in his mid-twenties. As no blood stain was found at the spot, it is apprehended that the victim was killed somewhere else and later the body was thrown at the secluded place. The head was chopped off from the body to conceal the identity.
Sources said that some clothes of a woman, sandals and clothes of a man were found in a sack near the beheaded body. The deceased was wearing jeans.
Though the police did not recover any other body it is suspected that a girl and the youth been murdered probably due to their illicit relationship.
The body was sent for autopsy and efforts are on to ascertain the identity of the victim. For this five teams have been formed under the leadership of additional superintendent of police (city).
Meanwhile in Muzaffarnagar, a 60-year-old woman was hacked to death by unidentified people at her residence, police said on Thursday.
The victim, Urmila, was in the kitchen when she was attacked with a sharp object on Wednesday night and she died on the spot, police said, referring to a complaint by her son Raju.
She was alone at her house in Kailash Nagar village at the time of the incident, the police said.
Circle Officer Vinay Gautam said an FIR had been registered and arrests were yet to be made.