Pankaj Shukla was killed by his cousin Gullu Mishra, police said.
Lucknow:
A man sleeping in a village temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya district has been killed by his cousin who slit his throat, police said on Sunday.
The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Pankaj Shukla, a resident of Amethi, who visited his maternal grandfather’s village.
He was killed by his cousin Gullu Mishra, who has been arrested, they said, adding that the two had previously argued.
“We received a call from the village of Bhuapur below Kumarganj Police Station at around 6:00 AM that a young man’s body is in a temple,” said police officer Satyendra Bhushan Tiwari.
“Police discovered that his throat had been slit. The victim is about 35 years old. He had lived there for about two months. The body has been sent for an autopsy,” he added.
