RAIPUR: The wife and 16-year-old daughter of a head constable in Chhattisgarh ’s Surajpur town were brutally murdered, allegedly by a history-sheeter who “hates police” so much that he had poured boiling oil on a patrol party a few hours before.
The head constable was part of the team searching for the suspect, Kuldeep Sahu , after the oil attack. He returned home at 1am on Monday and walked into a scene of horror — blood splatters on the walls and ceilings and puddles on the floor. His wife and daughter were missing. The bodies were found 7km away in separate ditches, said Surajpur SP M R Ahire.
Police fear the mother and daughter were raped because they were found nude. A mob torched Sahu’s house and gheraoed Kotwali PS.
BJP links suspect to Cong; ex-CM Baghel says law has vanished
A police team saw him trying to speed away in a car and shot out its tyres, but he got into another vehicle and fled. SP Ahire said the first getaway vehicle had blood stains.
On Monday, a mob of 500 gheraoed Kotwali police station in Surajpur, 350km from Raipur, demanding to know why Sahu hadn’t been arrested yet. They marched to his house, burned it down, and chased and thrashed an SDM when he tried to prevent the arson. The mob also set fire to a warehouse belonging to Sahu’s relative, triggering explosions as several LPG cylinders were stored there.
Surajpur town was in shutdown mode all day. Sahu’s family was shifted to a safe place. Surguja range IG Ankit Garg is camping in town. It’s not clear if more than one person was involved in the double murder . Several police teams are out looking for Sahu. “He is a habitual and dangerous offender. Action had been taken against him in the past,” the IG said.
Sahu is notorious for carrying grudges against police, which he acts out brazenly. He seemed to particularly target the head constable for reasons police are yet to understand. The latest round of attacks seem to have been triggered by arrest of his brother Sandeep, who allegedly threw a relative from the terrace of his house, say police. On Sunday evening, when a police team was patrolling the streets during a Durga puja procession, Sahu allegedly hurled a cauldron of boiling oil at them, which fell on a constable, severely burning him.
Sahu escaped in the chaos and soon, police teams were all over town, looking for him. Sahu knew the head constable was among them and his wife and daughter would be alone at home, say police. The family lived on the first floor of a two-storey house, whose ground-floor occupants were on vacation. He managed to sneak into the house unchallenged and unleashed a horrific attack, say police.
BJP alleged that Sahu was associated with Congress, which the opposition party has denied. Ex-CM and Congress neta Bhupesh Baghel said “it seems law has vanished from our state”.
The head constable was part of the team searching for the suspect, Kuldeep Sahu , after the oil attack. He returned home at 1am on Monday and walked into a scene of horror — blood splatters on the walls and ceilings and puddles on the floor. His wife and daughter were missing. The bodies were found 7km away in separate ditches, said Surajpur SP M R Ahire.
Police fear the mother and daughter were raped because they were found nude. A mob torched Sahu’s house and gheraoed Kotwali PS.
BJP links suspect to Cong; ex-CM Baghel says law has vanished
A police team saw him trying to speed away in a car and shot out its tyres, but he got into another vehicle and fled. SP Ahire said the first getaway vehicle had blood stains.
On Monday, a mob of 500 gheraoed Kotwali police station in Surajpur, 350km from Raipur, demanding to know why Sahu hadn’t been arrested yet. They marched to his house, burned it down, and chased and thrashed an SDM when he tried to prevent the arson. The mob also set fire to a warehouse belonging to Sahu’s relative, triggering explosions as several LPG cylinders were stored there.
Surajpur town was in shutdown mode all day. Sahu’s family was shifted to a safe place. Surguja range IG Ankit Garg is camping in town. It’s not clear if more than one person was involved in the double murder . Several police teams are out looking for Sahu. “He is a habitual and dangerous offender. Action had been taken against him in the past,” the IG said.
Sahu is notorious for carrying grudges against police, which he acts out brazenly. He seemed to particularly target the head constable for reasons police are yet to understand. The latest round of attacks seem to have been triggered by arrest of his brother Sandeep, who allegedly threw a relative from the terrace of his house, say police. On Sunday evening, when a police team was patrolling the streets during a Durga puja procession, Sahu allegedly hurled a cauldron of boiling oil at them, which fell on a constable, severely burning him.
Sahu escaped in the chaos and soon, police teams were all over town, looking for him. Sahu knew the head constable was among them and his wife and daughter would be alone at home, say police. The family lived on the first floor of a two-storey house, whose ground-floor occupants were on vacation. He managed to sneak into the house unchallenged and unleashed a horrific attack, say police.
BJP alleged that Sahu was associated with Congress, which the opposition party has denied. Ex-CM and Congress neta Bhupesh Baghel said “it seems law has vanished from our state”.
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