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A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and his son were shot and killed in the full light of day in western Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The killing took place in Sambhal district, which is a little more than 200 kilometres from the national capital of Delhi.
The SP leader Chhote Lal Diwakar and his son were gunned down after a fight broke out over a work done under MGNREGA scheme of the central government in the area, police said.
“Some were carried out under MGNREGA due to some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead,” said the Yamuna Prasad, Superintendent of Police, Sambhal.
The news agency IANS quoted the family members of the SP leader as saying that Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants arrived on a motorcycle and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving his bike behind.
Samajwadi Party district president Firoz Khan said that Diwakar had been the candidate of the party in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2017. He, however, did not fight the polls as the seat went to some other candidate of the SP-Congress coalition. He stated that some local leaders of the gang killed the SP leader and his son.
“Chhote Lal Diwakar of Sansoi people had any quarrel with the ex-pradhan (village head) through MGNREGA work. The father and the son died on the spot in the ball of the cooking. Their bodies have been sent for post-mortem and the FIR is being registered. Three teams have been formed, some persons have been arrested and the probe”, said SP Sambhal.
The police said that one of the accused has been identified as Savinder, a local strongman. “We have arrested four people who are being interrogated,” said SP Yamuna Prasad.
A large number of SP workers arrived at the village soon after the news of the double murder. Adequate police force has been deployed in the village to ensure that no untoward incident takes place.
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