Dandy. In Shambhuganj police station area of Banka district of Bihar, criminals murdered a disabled elderly couple sleeping in their house. Police recovered both the bodies on Wednesday. Police have prima facie suspected murder over land.
A police officer said that after getting information from villagers, the body of an elderly couple was recovered from a hutlike house in Khapra village on Wednesday. The deceased have been identified as Anirudh Yadav (70) and his wife Chaurasia Devi (65). Both husband and wife were disabled.
It is said that the couple had been living for years by building a hutlike house on their land in a deserted place at some distance from the village and doing farming work. The couple did not have any children, hence only two people lived in the house.
It is being told that they have about one bigha of land, on which the couple used to do farming. The villagers came to know about the incident on Wednesday morning. After this the police was informed.
Shambhuganj police station subinspector Amit Kumar said that after receiving information about the incident, the police reached the spot, took both the bodies in their custody and sent them for postmortem.
It is suspected that the criminals first beat them up and then killed them by attacking them with sharp weapons. He said that the exact reason for the murder has not been known yet and the police is investigating the entire matter. It is suspected that the couple may have been murdered over land.
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