Meerut: Local BJP leader found dead inside house with bullet wound
Meerut (UP), Jun 10 (PTI) A 35-year-old local BJP leader was on Saturday found dead at his house in Govindpuri area under suspicious circumstances with a bullet wound to the chest, police said.
President of BJP's mahanagar (city) Mukesh Singhal said Nishant Garg had been active for the past five years, and was the social media in-charge of the regional unit (western UP) of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).
Garg's wife has claimed her husband committed suicide sometime early Saturday morning, said Senior Superintendent of Police Rohit Singh.
In her statement to police, Sonia, the wife, said her husband got extremely drunk Friday night and beat her up too.
At around 3 am, she left for her parent's house located at some distance from their house. At 6.30 am, when she returned, she saw Garg lying in a pool of blood with a bullet wound to the chest, police said.
When police reached the spot, they could not find any pistol by his body.
However, when police inspector interrogated Sonia, she took out her husband's country-made pistol and mobile phone from an almirah, and handed them over to him.
The SSP said Sonia told police that when she got back home in the morning she got scared finding her husband dead and hid the pistol.
Sonia could not tell where the country-made pistol came from, he said. An empty liquor bottle and a glass was also found from their room.
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Ranchi: Temple guard bludgeoned to death during robbery attempt, 3 held
Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.
"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.
"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.
Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.
An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.
