A dalit couple were were brutally murdered in their under-construction house in Tithaupur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district late Sunday night.
The victims, 55-year-old husband Ram Nagina, lekhpal (revenue record keeper) posted in Mau and his 52-year-old wife Mansa Devi were murdered while they were sleeping in their village home at Tithaupur in Tarwan police station area in Azamgarh.
Circumstantial evidence suggested that the couple’s throats were slit with some sharp-edged weapon by the assailants.
Superintendent of Police of Azamgarh, Anurag Arya, said, “Some unidentified miscreants barged into the couple’s home late Sunday night and killed them by slashing their throats with some sharp-edged weapon and left the scene. On being informed by the victims’ neighbours, the police learnt about the double-murder on Monday morning. A police team rushed to the scene of crime with a dog squad and fingerprint experts and took the bodies in custody and sent them for autopsy.”
The news of the dalit-couple murder spread like wildfire and hundreds of villagers gathered there. Apart from Tarva, police from adjoining police stations had also reached the spot.
The deceased government officer Nagina was the eldest among three brothers and had three daughters, one of whom is married. The murder of the couple in Azamgarh took place within days after four members of Dalit family were murdered in their village home at Gohri in Phaphamau police station area of Prayagraj on Wednesday. The victims included a man (50 and his wife (45) years, their daughter (16) and son (10). The relatives of the murdered family have alleged that a lingering land dispute between the victims and their neighbour, belonging to upper caste, was behind the brutal murder.
