25 March 2024 :
Ten years after three members of a Bareilly-based income tax inspector's family were murdered during a dacoity by a gang of eight, including two women, a city court has awarded capital punishment to all of them on March 8, 2024.
The incident took place on April 21, 2014, when the gang members belonging to a nomadic tribe barged into IT inspector Ravikant Mishra's house.
They then brutally killed Mishra's mother, brother and sister-in-law.
Police subsequently registered an FIR against unidentified miscreants under IPC sections of robbery, murder and criminal conspiracy.
Later the case was solved and nine people, including two women and a jeweller, were arrested.
The jeweller who purchased the looted items from the gang was awarded life imprisonment. The judgment was pronounced by Additional District and Sessions Judge (fast-track) Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who had delivered the verdict in Gyanvapi case and in another case had summoned Tauqeer Raza Khan, UP cleric and head of Bareilly-based political party Ittehad-e-Millat Council, in a 2010 riots case.
Additional district government counsel (ADGC), Digambar Patel, said, "Barring the jeweller, all the other accused belong to 'chai-mar gang (who hit their target six times)' of Punjab origin. They first send their women for recce of the victims and at night their men commit dacoity. In this case, they brutally murdered three people during dacoity. An FIR was registered on the complaint of Ravikant Mishra. During investigation, police found that the gang broke into the house at night via an under-construction site next door by removing a window grill."
The ADGC added: "When Mishra's mother woke up, they killed her by repeatedly striking her on the head with a brick. They then killed Mishra's brother Yogesh and sister-in-law Priya with a crowbar and bricks. On a tipoff, police later raided some camps located on the banks of a river in Umaria village where they found silver coins, few papers and a purse, all of which were family belongings of Mishra.
After interrogation, the suspects confessed to the crime."
