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Village head's husband shot in Sultanpur

LUCKNOW: Four masked men on two bikes gunned down the husband of a gram pradhan in Sultanpur district , 100km from the state capital, in broad daylight on Sunday. Two of his aides were injured.


Victim Suresh Yadav (35), the husband of Hemnapur village head Sanjana, had criminal antecedents and had been booked under the Gangster Act in the past, police said.

Yadav and his aides, all accused in a 2012 murder case, had recently come out on bail.

The shooting took place around 9.10am when Yadav, Jai Narayan Kori and Vijay Kumar were sipping tea near Walipur police outpost. The assailants first trained a pistol on Yadav's head, fired a shot and then also sprayed him with bullets. Before fleeing, they also fired on Kori and Kumar.

Commuters informed the police control room. Sultanpur SP Himanshu Kumar said Yadav was declared brought dead in hospital while his aides were recuperating at KGMU Trauma Centre in Lucknow. "We are yet to receive a formal complaint in connection with the shooting," the SP said, adding that four teams had been formed.

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