Murder case witness, wife murdered in Kushinagar

GORAKHPUR: A couple was killed with a sharp-edged weapon in Parsouni Buzurg village under Tarya Sujan police station limit of Kushinagar district on Monday.
Acoording to reports, Budhan Rajbhar (55) and his wife Sankeshia (47) were sleeping in their house after having dinner when the accused entered the house and attacked Budhan with a sickle. When his wife came to protect him, the accused attacked her as well and both husband and wife died on the spot.After hearing their cries, the couple's daughter Savitri came out of her room and the accused attacked her with a sickle and escaped.
Police were able to take the body for postmortem after pacifying the villagers as they surrounded the house of the deceased and started demonstrating and demanding arrest of the accused. Police were not able to nab the accused so far and a heavy police force was deployed in the village. As per villagers, Budhan was a witness in a murder case against the accused.
“A couple was murdered with a sharp-edged weapon under the limits of Tarya Sujan police station and a case of murder and attempt to murder against one Ramashankar has been registered . The deceased Budhan was a witness in a murder case against Ramashankar and will be under custody soon,” SP Kushinagar, Vinod Kumar Singh said.
As per villagers, Ramashankar is accused for the murder of his neighbour ten years ago and also attempt to murder in a case two years ago. Budhan was a witness in the murder case and gave a written application fearing threat to his life 10 days ago. On Sunday evening Ramashankar had a clash with Budhan and on Monday police booked him under section 151 of IPC (arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offences) but he came out on bail.