Youth found murdered in Azamgarh village

VARANASI: A Dalit youth Pradeep Kumar of Dalitpur village under the limits of Pavai police station in Azamgarh district was found murdered in a sugarcane field of his village on Tuesday morning.
SP Azamgarh Sudhir Kumar Singh said that as per initial investigation it is suspected that Pradeep was strangulated and then his body was dumped in the field. The investigation is on and the case would be worked out soon, he added.
The police said that Pradeep operated a boat in a river near the village to earn his livelihood.On Monday evening, he had left home after handing over his earnings of the day to his mother after someone called him over phone. However, when he did not return in night his family members tried to search him at various places but could not find him.
On Tuesday morning, some women had gone to the fields to collect fodder for animals when they noticed a large numbers of dogs in a sugarcane field. When they reached the sugarcane field they spotted the body lying there and raised an alarm. Within a few minutes, hundreds of villagers gathered there. Police had to faced anger of villager over killing of Pradeep when they reached the spot.