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A youth was lynched by the kin of his love interest after being found in a compromising position in Mau late Friday night.
As per reports, Sarfaraz (20) of Hikmaghara hamlet of Kupaganj area was having an affair with a girl residing in his neighbourhood.
Since the girl was still a minor and was from a different community, her family opposed the liaison and had warned Sarfaraz of filing a complaint to the police.
Late Friday night, Sarfaraz slipped into the girl’s house and the couple were in a compromising position when they were caught by her family members.
The angry family members were brutally assaulting the youth with sticks and rods when some villagers intervened. The youth was taken to the district hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Later, a heavy police force was deployed in the area to avert any untoward incident.
Elsewhere in Mathura, the body of a 40-year-old Angadwadi worker, with bullet wound, was found lying in a pool of blood inside her house on Saturday morning.
As per reports, Neerja (40) of Narauli Junnadar hamlet of Baldev was found lying dead inside her house by one of her neighbours. Later the police were informed about the incident.
Senior officers who reached the spot said after preliminary enquiry that the woman used to live alone after her son was jailed in a rape case four months back. Earlier in 2002, her husband, Mukesh Verma, was murdered.
The police said that the victim also had a land dispute with one of her neighbours and hence every angle which could have led to the murder, was being probed.
The cops were also scanning the footages of close circuit television cameras to identify any suspect moving in the area on the fateful night. The body was sent autopsy and investigations were on.
In Kannauj, an 18-year-old Dalit youth, missing for the last four days, was found hanging from a tree.
The police suspect that the deceased ended his life but the family members alleged that someone killed him and later hanged the body to make it loo like a case of suicide.
Indrapal aka Muleshi of Duryian Purwa in Tirwaganj locality went missing after he was seen playing outside his house last Tuesday. His father, Ramesh Chandra Jatav, lodged a report with the local police in this regard.
On Saturday morning, his body was found hanging from a tree near Urmada bridge by some villagers, who later informed the police about it. The family members later reached there and identified the victim as Indrapal.
The body was sent for autopsy and investigations were on.