The body of a 9-year-old Dalit boy was found hanging from a tree in Nighasan police station area of Lakhimpur Kheri. The family has accused the neighbours of murder in a land dispute. On the complaint of the victim, the police has registered a case against four people and arrested them and sent them to jail. While a sub-inspector has been suspended for negligence.
The body of a 9-year-old Dalit boy was found hanging from an acacia tree on Thursday night in Harsinghpur Majra Jummanpurwa of Jhandi Chowki under Nighasan police station area of Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. The deceased was identified as Pappu, son of Jamuna Prasad, resident of Jummanpurwa. The family has accused Chunna, Mumtaz, Chhote and Qayyum of the same village of murder due to land dispute. The police has arrested all the four accused and sent them to jail. Also, Jhandi Chowki in-charge Durgesh Sharma was suspended on charges of negligence. Pappu had gone to cut grass on Thursday evening, but when he did not return home, the family started searching for him. At night his body was found hanging from an acacia tree in a banana field about 250 meters away from the house. According to the deceased’s father Jamuna Prasad, there were injury marks on the body and his vest was torn. The family alleges that Pappu was first beaten and then killed and the body was hung from the tree.
Family’s protest and police action
On receiving information about the body being found, CO Mehak Sharma and Kotwal Mahesh Chandra reached the spot with the police force. The family expressed suspicion of murder and refused to take down the body from the tree and demanded to call the DM and immediately arrest the accused. The uproar continued till late night. When the situation became tense, the Additional SP reached the spot and assured strict action against the culprits, after which the family allowed the body to be taken down for post-mortem.
Police accused of negligence
The grandfather of the deceased said that the accused had occupied his inhabited land, against which he complained several times, but no action was taken. He accused the Jhandi Chowki in-charge of negligence and said that if action had been taken on time, his grandson’s life could have been saved.
Case registered, four accused arrested
SP Sankalp Sharma said that on the basis of the complaint of the family, a case of murder has been registered against four accused Chunna, Mumtaz, Chhote and Qayyum. All four have been arrested and sent to jail. Intensive investigation of the case is going on.
On Friday, when the body of the deceased reached home after post-mortem, Bajrang Dal workers reached the spot and demonstrated by raising slogans.
Edited by: Devesh Pandey
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