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  • January 21, 2025
Violent killings in Varanasi and Jaunpur: two men hacked to death | Varanasi News

Violent killings in Varanasi and Jaunpur: two men hacked to death | Varanasi News

2 hacked to death in separate incidents in Varanasi and Jaunpur districts

Varanasi: Sensation prevailed in Bhelkha area, within the limits of Badagaon police station in Varanasi, on Wednesday morning after the body of a man was found lying in a pool of blood behind a rural liquor shop.
Inspector Badagaon Atul Kumar said the deceased was identified as Rajesh Saroj, 30, of Sabhaipur, Shivpur. Police interrogate the suspects after sending the body for post-mortem. Initial investigations revealed that the man assaulted villagers in Vazidpur after consuming liquor late on Tuesday night. It is suspected that the attackers killed him with stones over a dispute.
Some morning walkers saw the body the next morning and alerted the police. Badagaon inspector Atul Kumar Singh and outpost in-charge Shivanand Sisodia recovered many blood-stained stones and 12 empty tetra cartons of homemade liquor from the crime scene. ADCP Varuna zone T Sarvanan also reached the spot.
Meanwhile, in Jaupur on Tuesday evening, a general merchant, Aslam, 35, from Thanagaddi area, was brutally hacked to death by some miscreants in the ruins of a building owned by one Chhotelal Vishwakarma at Thanagaddi, an old border crossing under the Kerakat police station. . When he did not return after closing his shop in Parauganj, his family started looking for him.
On Wednesday morning, some locals saw his body in the ruins and alerted police. CO Kerakat Ajit Kumar and SO Kerakat Avanish Kumar Rai reached the spot along with forensic experts. The CO said that based on the complaint, a named FIR was lodged against two persons after the body was sent for post-mortem examination. Teams have been called in to arrest the killers as soon as possible.