On the morning of Tuesday (November 5), the entire Gupta family in the Bhadauni area of Varanasi's Bhelupur region met with a tragic end. Initially, the assailant intruded into Rajendra Gupta's house, brutally ending the lives of his wife and three children. However, when the search for Rajendra began, his lifeless body was found around 15 km away at his under-construction house. Rajendra had been shot two to three times, and his body was drenched in blood.
At first, Varanasi police believed that Rajendra Gupta himself had killed his four family members and then fled the scene. However, a few hours into the search, Rajendra was found dead as well. All five murders were executed by shooting, sending a wave of shock through the area. Yet, 24 hours have passed, and the police are yet to have any leads.
Initially, the police suspected a family dispute and old enmity as the reasons behind the incident. This theory is based on the past actions of Rajendra Gupta, who, in 1997, killed a security guard and another person along with his father. It is also alleged that Rajendra shot his brother Krishna and sister-in-law Manju while they were asleep.
Moreover, according to Rajendra's elderly mother, who was present at the time of the murders, she had no inkling of the entire incident. This is quite surprising, as it's hard to believe that no one heard anything despite a dozen rounds being fired in the house. Initially, the police were investigating this as a case of murder and suicide, but it has now turned into a search for the culprit behind five homicides.
A House, Four Murders, and No Clue
It was on Tuesday morning in Varanasi's Badauni locality that screams erupted from Rajendra Gupta's home when the maid arrived for work. In different rooms and the bathroom, the bloodied bodies of the household's lady (Rajendra's wife) and their three children were found, all shot.
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Hours after the incident, the whereabouts of the household's head, Rajendra Gupta, were still unknown. The police speculated that the hot-tempered and criminal-minded Rajendra may have ended his family's lives due to domestic strife and subsequently escaped. After all, Rajendra Gupta, driven by property greed, had reputedly murdered his brother Krishna and his wife Manju while they were asleep in 1997, and it was Rajendra's father, Lakshmi Narayan, who filed the case against him at Bhelupur police station.
At that time, Rajendra even threatened to kill his father, and indeed, something sinister transpired. Before Krishna's thirteenth-day death ritual, his father, Lakshmi Narayan, was shot dead, along with the security guard and another person. Following this incident, the police arrested Rajendra and his associate Anil, but due to inadequate case advocacy, Rajendra was released from jail and subsequently took sole possession of the entire property.
The State in Which Rajendra's Body Was Found
Following the incident on Tuesday, police traced Rajendra Gupta's location to the city's Rohanian police jurisdiction in Rampur Lathia, where Rajendra's under-construction house is situated. There, they found Rajendra's blood-soaked body, lying on the bed. Although the police toyed with the theory that Rajendra committed suicide 15 kilometers away after killing his family, the circumstances just didn’t add up.
The fact that commands attention is how someone who allegedly murdered four family members would calmly remove his shirt, cover the bed with a mosquito net, and then shoot himself, not once, but thrice. With that in mind, the police have now embarked on a fresh investigation into the murder mystery involving five people, different from their initial theory, as the weapon used in Rajendra's family's murder was also a pistol, and several bullets were lodged in their bodies.
Consequently, raising the perspective that the murderer is someone else, possibly a professional shooter, isn't far-fetched. Discussions with Rajendra Gupta’s relatives and family revealed another startling piece of information. During the incident, Rajendra's mother, Sharda Devi, was in the house but remained unaware of the murder of her daughter-in-law, two grandsons, and a granddaughter.
