Father of a teenager killed a youth who allegedly had an affair with his daughter, police said on Saturday.
In a separate incident, a youth died on the spot after a truck ran over him under the limits of Vidhan Shabha police station on Sunday evening. According to police the murder incident happened late on Friday night adjoining the Pandari pond. “The deceased was identified as Sitaram Vishwakarma son of Jagdish Vishwakarma resident of
Daldal Seoni. He allegedly had affair with daughter of accused Neelkanth Sahu of Daldal Seoni,” informed officer investigating the case. The deceased was sitting near the Pandari pond along with some of his friends suddenly Neelkanth arrived at the spot and attacked Jagdish with wooden stick, police said.
The friends of Jagdish ran away seeing infuriated Neelkanth who attacked them. Due to serious head injury Jagdish fell in the pond and lost consciousness, later his body was found floating on the pond. The accused Jagdish is on the run and a murder case has been registered against him, police told reporters.
In another mishap Yashwant Sahu (30) son of Samaru Sahu resident of Nardaha, Raipur died after a rashly driven truck ran over him under the limits of Vidhan Shabha police station on Sunday evening. The deceased was on bike (CG-04 KJ-6962) when the truck (CG-08 J-1999) ran over him. Sukhnandan Shau who was sitting pillion on bike was also injured.
After the accident truck driver managed to run away from the spot, police informed.