Three arrested for murder of retired road worker in Sultanpur; Police inspector suspended | Lucknow News

Lucknow: Two days after retired road worker Surendra Pandey (62) was shot dead near Rajanpur village in Sultanpur’s Gosaiganj district, police arrested three persons and sent them to jail on Wednesday.
Sultanpur SP Somen Barma also suspended the Gosaiganj inspector in charge, Prem Chand Singh, for laxity.
Surendra was returning home with vegetables when two assailants on bicycles intercepted him and shot him in the head over a long-standing land dispute. After the attack, the attackers fled on their motorcycles. Barma said that Kailash Nath Mishra, Aditya Nath Mishra and Badri Prasad Mishra were involved in the murder and added that there was a dispute between the suspects and the victim over a piece of land, which is pending in the court.
The victim also stated at the hearing that he was threatened by the suspect and that he had taken action against him. Barma said that despite knowing that the matter was sensitive and there was a land dispute, the local station officer, Prem Chand Singh, ignored it and did not take any preventive action and hence he was suspended.
A day before his murder, Surendra built a boundary wall around his property, leaving the disputed land untouched. The family suspected that the three suspects were involved in the murder.
The two families are embroiled in multiple civil and criminal cases involving the disputed land. Surendra was the second of five brothers and is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.