Criminals kill one in Mainpuri village

KANPUR: In a daring dacoity late on Monday night, about a dozen suspected members of the ‘Kaccha-Banyan’ gang wreaked havoc in Nagla Madhau village of Mainpuri, the constituency of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. Besides battering a 65-year-old man to death and critically injuring four others, including a minor girl, they brutally beat up other members of the family, including women and children and decamped with cash and jewellery worth several lakhs of rupees.
The injured have been rushed to Etawah's Saifai Medical College, where the doctors stated condition of some of the injured as critical.
An FIR has been lodged with the Kotwali police station of Mainpuri against unidentified miscreants under various sections of IPC.
A senior police official told TOI that the miscreants first barged into the water-pump house located in the agricultural fields of Nagla Madhau resident Santosh Mishra where caretaker Bataram was sleeping. They attacked Bataram with lathis, ‘babool’ tree sticks and iron rods when he tried to offer resistance, leaving him critically wounded.
The assailants then entered the house of Ram Kailash in the same locality. Here, they first attacked Ram Kailash, his wife Sharda Devi and 15-year-old daughter Sapna, who were sleeping in separate rooms.
The gang later went to the adjoining Aure Mandal village, raided the house of Santosh Mishra and attacked him with lathis and iron rods.
Though the locals immediately informed the Kotwali police, no help arrived on the scene. When the cops reached Santosh Mishra’s agricultural fields, they found Bataram lying dead in a pool of blood.“A group of 12 men reached the fields of Santosh Mishra at around 2.30 am on Tuesday and attacked him brutally. They were talking in a dialect popular in the region,” said Ram Kailash, one of the victims.
Mainpuri SP Shalabh Mathur said: “Special teams have been dispatched to bordering districts, including Etawah, Etah and Farrukhabad, to nab the miscreants.”