Barabanki SDM’s wife,help arrested for driver’s murder

Sarvajeet,who worked as a driver of SDM’s private vehicle,used to stay at the servant’s quarter of the officer’s house at Chinhat. He died after he was attacked allegedly by the three miscreants with sharp-edged weapons on Tuesday evening.

Police said that the killers — Ramswaroop,Vipin and Ramswaroop’s brother-in-law whose name is yet to be revealed — used to share Sarvajeet’s room for the last one month.

The domestic help,Motilal,has also been arrested for conspiracy. The circle officer of Gomti Nagar,Roshan Lal Jayant,said: “Motilal had told Kailasha that he had heard Sarvajeet saying that he was planning to kill her son Anil to grab the property. She hired three persons and asked them to kill Sarvajeet. She promised them a vehicle,house and some cash.”

According to Motilal,said police,the SDM was impressed with Sarvajeet and had purchased 15 bigha land and a tractor for him. “Kailasha feared that Sarvajeet would kill Anil and would get their property transferred in his name,” Motilal is said to have told the police.

In their investigation,the police found that the SDM had hired the same killers to get two persons in his neighbourhood eliminated. Jayant said the SDM had a running dispute with Vinod Awasthi and Kusuma Mishra who stay in his locality. “On several occasions,the SDM had quarrels with the duo as he suspected that Kusuma was trying to get one of his two daughters date a youth. The SDM had also threatened the duo to leave the neighbourhood,” the CO added.

To settle the score with them,the SDM had asked Sarvajeet to hire the killers. But before they could have target the duo,SDM’s wife assured them money and car to get Sarvajeet eliminated instead.