LUCKNOW: An elderly man of Chinhat, identified as Gopi Kashyap, who had sold his land for Rs 3.4 crore recently and was found murdered at his house on Saturday, was killed by his relatives. The police arrested son-in-law of the deceased and his three maternal grandsons on Sunday.
Those arrested were identified as Dilip Kumar of Barabanki (deceased’s son-in-law), Jai Singh and his brother Shiv Singh, both sons of Gopi’s another son-in-law Ram Saran and Manish, son of Gopi’s another son-in-law Munna. Dilip’s wife Ritu had lodged an FIR on Saturday.
“They strangled Gopi because he was not ready to share the money he had received after the sale of property,” said ADCP, east zone, Qasim Abidi, who worked out the case.
Gopi (75) of Juggaur in Chinhat locality had three daughters. While Ritu Kashyap was married to Dilip of Barabanki, Munni and Sunita were married to Munna and Ram Saran respectively. Ritu is staying at her father’s house in Juggaur. The incident had come to light around 7 am on Saturday when Ritu went to serve tea to her father Gopi. Later, she found injury marks on his head as well as marks of strangulation.
