A youth stabbed his elder brother to death over a petty dispute in Banjariya Hussain village of Rehra Bazar police station area of Balrampur on Tuesday morning. Family members later informed police who reached the place and sent the body for autopsy. The accused was arrested after a case was registered on the complaint of the deceased’s wife. The knife used in the murder was also recovered.
Reports said that Nasima Bano, a resident of village Banjariya Hussain’s Majre Badki Banjaria, said her husband Aftab (43) had a minor dispute with his younger brother Imtiaz (23) on Tuesday morning. “Imtiaz attacked Aftab with a knife, killing him on the spot,” she stated in the FIR. Inspector-in-charge JP Dubey said the body was sent for the post-mortem examination and the accused arrested.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, three people of a family died under suspicious circumstances in Atara village of Sadar Kotwali area in Kannauj. District Magistrate Rakesh Kumar Mishra and SP Prashant Verma reached the spot on being informed about the incident. The DM said during his interaction with the kin of the deceased, it came to the fore that an elderly woman vomited and died on the way to a hospital.
A few hours later, her son and granddaughter complained of vomiting and diarrhoea and they also succumbed. All of them had a simple meal —dal, roti and rice. The DM said that the cause of deaths would be ascertained in the autopsy. The deceased were identified as Shanti Devi Valmiki (70), her son Ramesh (52) and granddaughter (2).
Elsewhere in Kushinagar, three bike-borne accused stabbed a customer service centre operator and robbed him of his bag containing Rs 7.05 lakh on Monday night. Reports said the robbers sped off towards Bihar.
The incident took place near Gopalpur intersection on Tamkuhi-Siswa Nahar road under Taraya Sujan police station area. Police took the injured to Tamkuhiraj CHC from where he was referred to the district hospital.
Ramji Patel, a resident of Kurmi Tola of Daniyadi village, runs a customer service centre in Siswa Nahar Bazar. He was going to his home by bike along with Bankkhas resident Neeraj Chauhan after withdrawing money from PNB’s Tamkuhi Road branch.
Three bike-borne robbers stopped him on the way and snatched the cash bag. As Arvind offered resistance, the robbers stabbed him and fled towards Bihar.
CO, Tamkuhi, Jitendra Kalra, inspector-in-charge Kapildev Chaudhary and the SOG team met the injured in the hospital. SP Ritesh Kumar Singh inspected the spot and directed a police team to track down the robbers.