A woman was brutally hacked to death by her ex-lover just as she refused to leave her husband and marry the accused. The sensational killing took place in Mahoba district on Sunday evening. The accused, soon after killing the woman, consumed poison to commit suicide and later surrendered before the local police and confessed of the crime. He was immediately shifted to District Hospital where he was officially taken into custody after his condition improved and doctors declared him out of danger on Monday morning.
Reports said that one Roop Singh Yadav, a native of Kulhai Paharigaon hamlet of Srinagar area of Mahoba, was in love with one Kalawati, a native of the same town. However, Kalawati’s family married her with one Shyam Bihari and also warned Roop to forget the girl otherwise be ready to face the consequences. Few days back, Kalawati returned from her in-laws house and living with her parents. In the meantime, Roop again contacted her and pressurised her to marry him in court.
Reports said that Kalawati refused the offer and also asked Roop to leave her and marry some other girl. This irked Roop and finally on Sunday evening, when Kalawati was working in the field, he reached and brutally hacked her to death with an axe. He then consumed poison before turning at the local police station to surrender. A case has been registered in this regard on the complaint handed over to police by Shyam Bihari and body was sent for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, a minor boy was kidnapped and murdered before sodomised by the accused in Hardoi. Reports said that a resident of Sandi in Hardoi lodged a case with the local police that his 14-year-old son was kidnapped by Rohit and Mahesh, both residents of Bakhriya, after he went to work in the fields on last Wednesday afternoon. Surprisingly, the application was handed over to local Sandi police by the victim’s father on the same day but the local police refused to register and case. They also not took no pain to grill the accused and extract the whereabouts of the victim.
Reports said that the matter took and ugly turn on Sunday evening, when the body of the boy was recovered in the cane fileds, and it was found that the victim was sodomised before being strangulated to death. The cops registered the FIR as that of abduction, sodomy, and murder against the accused and claimed to have arrested both on Monday morning. The accused were later sent to jail in the matter and the body was sent for post-mortem examination.