A youth was shot dead in Sadarpur police station area of Sitapur, allegedly by the family members of his lover.
The father of the deceased filed a murder case against the father and brother of the girl residing in the same locality.
Reports said that Suvesh Kumar (22), a resident of village Lonianpurwa under Sadarpur police station, had gone to fields to save his crop from heavy rains late Thursday night. When he did not return for a long time, his father, Baburam, started searching for his son. When he reached his field, he found his son lying dead on the side of the Lonianpurwa-Sihrukheda road. Suvesh had bullet injury marks pointing that he was shot dead.
A large number of villagers rushed to the spot as soon as the information about Suvesh's death was received. The local police reached the spot on getting information and sent the body for post-mortem. On Baburam’s complaint, the police registered a case against Sukai Prasad, his son Jitendra.
Baburam said that Suvesh was in love with a local girl (already married) and as her family was against the affair, they gunned down his son.
Meanwhile in a shocking incident, a youth killed his mother after she refused to give him Rs 200 to buy liquor. The accused later fled the scene of crime.
Reports said Ram Khelawan, a resident of Sanai hamlet has four sons and four daughters. Khelawan said that his second son Rajkumar is addicted to alcohol and also takes drugs. On Thursday late evening, when his wife Rampati was feeding cattle, Rajkumar came home and demanded Rs 200 to purchase liquor. As his wife refused, his son brutally battered her with a brick in which she died on the spot. Rajkumar later fled from the house.
A case has been registered in the regard and efforts were on to nab the accused.