Youth dies in celebratory firing; another injured, accused arrested

PRAYAGRAJ: A 27-year-old youth died while another was injured in an incident of celebratory firing during a marriage procession at Chakra Alipur village under Phulpur police station of trans-Ganga area on Wednesday night. The man accused of firing was caught and thrashed by locals and later arrested.

Police said a marriage procession of one Ashish Singh of Mandhata area of Pratapgarh had come to Chakra Alipur village on Wednesday night.

A person identified as Subhash Singh, from the groom’s side started firing from his rifle when the marriage procession reached the bride’s house. Jitendra Singh, 27 who too was part of marriage procession objected to the firing but Subhash allegedly fired another shot resulting in bullet injuries to Jitendra Singh and Bhanu Singh. The duo was rushed to the hospital where Jitendra died during treatment.

Jitendra’s brother Arjun Singh claimed Subhash was an army deserter and had earlier issued threats to his brother.

SHO of Phulpur police station Amit Kumar said the accused has been arrested and firearm used in the crime recovered.

Woman allegedly murdered by friend

VARANASI : A 30-year-old woman was killed, allegedly by her friend, in Matuka village (Takhu’s Baoli) under the Kapsethi police station area, on Thursday, police said.

A police officer said that the deceased, Kanchan Patel, 30, was a resident of Matuka. Her husband, Sanjai Patel, is posted as land testing officer in district Mirzapur. She used to run a beauty parlour in a room of her house. The officer said that Rakhi Verma, in her late 20s, lived some distance from her house. Rakhi was a close friend of Kanchan’s. They used to spend a lot of time together. On Thursday morning, at around 9 am, Rakhi called Kanchan home.

The officer said that after some time, Rakhi’s kin dialled Kanchan’s husband and asked him to take his wife back. Sanjai reached Rakhi’s house where his wife was lying in a pool of blood with her throat slit. A shovel was lying next to her. Rakhi was sitting on a cot in the room. On information, a police team from Kapsethi police station reached the spot and took the accused into custody and sent the body for a post-mortem examination.

Additional SP, rural, Neeraj Pandey, circle officer, Baragaon, Jagdish Kaliraman, inspected the spot and questioned locals to ascertain the cause of the incident. Initial probe revealed that Rakhi was angry with Kanchan over some issue. Pandey said that the accused was being interrogated.