Two central government employees murdered in Lucknow

Lucknow, June 18 (IANS) An electrician and a peon, both employees of a central government enterprise, were found killed in their office here, Uttar Pradesh Police said Monday.

The bodies of electrician Dev Narayan Singh and peon Vansh Raj Yadav were recovered from the Mahanagar office of public sector Instrumentation Limited here Monday. They died at least two days ago, a police officer said.

Inspector K.D. Mishra said both the employees were repeatedly hit by a blunt object on their face and a sharp-edged weapon on their stomach leading to their death.

Singh had come on an official tour from the Obra Power station. An Instrumentation Limited official, A.K. Singh told IANS that he had met Singh on Saturday afternoon.

All officials and employees in the office left thereafter and only peons Vansh Raj Yadav and Kripa Shankar remained in the office along with the electrician.

On Monday when another peon Pawan reached the office at 9 a.m., he found the office locked from inside and informed his seniors about it. When the officials reached the office they broke open the locks only to find the bodies of the two employees lying in a pool of blood. The bodies had started to smell.