Up Murder Case News Today

Although the police have refuted the claims, the family members of the man, identified as Asaram, and residents of his village, protested with his body and blocked the Lakhimpur-Maigalganj highway on Saturday morning.

The police also arrested an aunt and two uncles of the victim for assisting the couple in the October 29 murder and the subsequent cover-up.

Police arrested the woman’s father who reached the station with the spade used in the crime; probing the role of other family members.

In a surprising turn, an 11-year-old from Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, stood in the Supreme Court, refuting an ongoing murder case against his grandfather and uncles, allegedly filed falsely by his father. The Court, after the boys plea, ordered no coercive actions against the accused until further proceedings in January. The case unravels a bitter family dispute triggered by dowry-related accusations and domestic violence, prompting legal battles between the parties.

The girl’s father had lodged a complaint on November 4 accusing one of the men of kidnapping his 17-year-old daughter.

Two minor sisters, aged four and seven years, were found dead with their throats slit in a village in UP on Sunday, police said.

Officers said Sunil Sharma, the deceased, was in a relationship with Manorama, one of the accused, for the last eight years but she decided to snap ties with him after her marriage was fixed.

The victim's wife told the police that two of the killers had been putting pressure on her husband to withdraw a complaint alleging molestation of their two minor daughters.

The incident happened Monday when the girl had left her house to buy vegetables from the local market. She was allegedly picked up and raped by the accused and subsequently died, after which the accused left her body at a deserted spot.

Jagdish Yadav, resident of a resident of Koregaon was crushed to death by an SUV on December 22, details below.