On Thursday, the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested the second accused in connection with the Badaun double murder case. The second accused, identified as Mohammad Javed, was arrested from Bareilly. ‘Javed initially fled to Delhi but was later arrested in Bareilly’, according to the media reports.
A video is going viral wherein Javed is heard saying that he came to Bareilly to surrender himself.
He said, ‘I ran straight to Delhi and from there to Badaun, I have to come to Bareilly to surrender. I have received phone calls from people about what my brother did” he said.
It should be noted here that Sajid, the other individual implicated in the Badaun double murder, was previously killed by the police in an encounter.
Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun, a salon owner killed two children of his neighbour, resulting in tension in the region.
On Tuesday, Salon owner Mohd Sajid, 22, barged into the house of his neighbour contractor Vinod Thakur at around 8 pm and cut the throats of his sons Ayush (13) and Ahaan (6) with a sharp weapon.
Vindo’s third son Piyush was also attacked by Sajid but he received minor injuries and was hospitalised. Locals set shops on fire and demanded the immediate arrest of the accused soon after the incident. Later, the police killed Sajid in an encounter.
‘Today evening an unfortunate incident took place in which two children were killed. The police reached the spot and the accused tried to escape. We chased the accused. He fired at the police and was killed in retaliatory fire. The accused died on the spot. The police are investigating the case’, said Bareilly Inspector-General of Police Rakesh Kumar.
The accused had a salon shop in the Baba colony of Badaun city. The reason for the brutal murder of two children remains unknown. The father of the deceased has said that there were two people involved in the murder and they are still unaware as to why this incident happened.
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