Five of family found dead inside Prayagraj house
PRAYAGRAJ: Five members of a family, including a one-year-old girl, were allegedly murdered in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district on Saturday, police said.
While bodies of two women and a girl were found inside their house, the body of a man was found hanging in the courtyard, in Khevrajpur village under Tharwai police station in trans-ganga area. A 50-year-old woman was found critically injured and was rushed to a hospital where she was declared brought dead by doctors.
One of the rooms was also set on fire allegedly by the accused, and was doused by the fire brigade, police said. The deceased were identified as Rajkumar Yadav (55), his wife Kusum (50), their daughter Manisha (22), daughterin-law Savita (25), and Rajkumar’s granddaughter Sakshi (1). Rajkumar’s son, Sunil, was not at home when the purported crime took place, Prayagraj senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ajay Kumar said.
Meenakshi, another 5-year-old granddaughter of Rajkumar, was found alive in the house, he added.
Police suspect the deceased were assaulted with a blunt object. “All angles, including loot and enmity, are being probed,” a police official said. Sunil, who runs a tea stall near Prayag railway station, alleged that the bodies of the two women were found without clothes. “I have no enmity with anyone in the village,” he said in his complaint.
Taking note of Sunil’s allegation, the SSP said: “All the bodies have been sent for post-mortem to determine their cause of death and if the two women were sexually assaulted... The entire process will also be videographed.”
A first information report was registered against unidentified people under section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code. “Seven teams have been formed to work out the case at the earliest. The guilty will not be spared,” he said.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed the district magistrate and senior police officers to conduct an impartial probe into the case and initiate strict action against those found guilty.