Woman found with throat slit in her Pratapgarh house
PRAYAGRAJ: A 55-year-old woman was killed by assailants at Parwatpur village, under the Jethwara police station of Pratapgarh district, late on Wednesday night. The woman’s body was found with the throat slit, in the courtyard of her house, on Thursday morning. Investigations are being carried out and all angles including that of property-related dispute are under the scanner, police said.
According to reports, Samar Bahadur Patel’s wife, Dhanpatti Devi, was sleeping in the courtyard of the house. On Thursday morning, the family was shocked to find Dhanpatti lying in a pool of blood. Sanjay Pandey, SHO, Jethwara police station, reached the crime scene. He said that the family and villagers were being questioned in connection with the incident. Suspects will soon be rounded up for questioning, he added.
Atiq aide’s house demolished
A team of Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) officials, accompanied by police, demolished a multi-storeyed house belonging to Mohd Asaad, a close aide of Mafiosi-turned-politician and ex-MP Atiq Ahmad, at 60 Feet Road area of Chakia locality, on Thursday. Asaad has over a dozen cases lodged against him and has recently come out of jail on bail. He was running the real estate business of Atiq and was providing money to the Atiq gang, officials said. The PDA team and heavy force under Alok Pandey, zonal officer, reached Chakia and barricaded the area before starting the demolition drive. Pandey said that the three-storey house was constructed in a 300-square yard area without PDA sanction.
Hay trader’s murder cracked, two held
The trans-Ganga police cracked the murder of a 65-year-old hay trader, who was hacked to death by assailants at his godown late on Tuesday night, in Hajiganj, under the trans-Ganga Soraon police station area. The police has arrested two persons of the same village who confessed to have killed Pyarelal Yadav over a monetary dispute.
Pyarelal Yadav, a resident of Hajiganj, was a hay trader and used to sleep in his godown, adjacent to his house. He went to sleep after dinner as usual. On Wednesday morning, Yadav’s grand-daughter went to give tea to her grandfather but was shocked to see him lying in a pool of blood. Dhawal Jaiswal, SP, trans-Ganga, said investigations revealed that Pyarelal used to deal in property and had a tiff with Shankarlal and Ghanshyam Yadav over the payment of property sold. The duo was rounded up and confessed to have killed Pyarelal.