PG student shoots at friend in class, later kills girl; held

PG student shoots at friend in class, later kills girl; held

Arindam Ghosh TNN

Jhansi:20.02.2021

A misunderstanding over the relationship between three classmates took a grisly turn on Friday when a 24-yearold postgraduate student of Bundelkhand Degree College in Jhansi first shot at and critically injured his male classmate in a classroom and then shot his woman classmate dead in front of her house. He waslaterarrested.

All the three students, said to be close friends, are students of first year MA.

Manthan Singh Senger entered the classroom carrying a pistoland shotathisfriend Hukmendra Singh Gurjar, 22, from behindon hisheadwhile he was attending class. He went on to the blackboard and wrote ‘Manthan Finished’.

He then went to the house of his classmate Kritika Trivedi

(22), who was sitting in front of her house with her grandmother. Hearing gunshots, her neighbours overpowered the accused, tied him up and called the police, reports added.

Police arrested Manthan while both the victims were rushed to hospital where Kritika succumbed. Hukmendra is in a critical state. He was later shifted to Delhi.

Unconfirmed reports said Manthan was in a relationship with Kritika and unhappy over Hukumendra’s interference.

SSP Jhansi Dinesh Kumar P said, “The accused and the victims were close friends. They had developed some misunderstanding over relationship issues.”

Officials at the site in Unnao on Friday where bodies of two minor girls were found

Cops say spurned lover poisoned Unnao girls; 2 held

Claiming it to be a diabolic act of a spurned lover, police on Friday said the three minor Dalit girls found unconscious in their field at Baburha village of UP’s Unnao on Wednesday were poisoned by a Dalit youth from a neighbouring village. They arrested Vinay Kumar

(25) and his 15-year-old accomplice, also a Dalit, as the two accused in the case.

While two girls, aged13 and15, died on way to hospital, the third one, aged 17, is battling for life. IG Lakshmi Singh said Vinay said he wanted to kill the third girl and made her drink water spiked with insecticide, but the other two also drank from the same bottle. TNN