Rajendra Gupta’s nephew Jugnu lit the dead bodies.
‘Revenge is such a dish, the colder it is eaten, the better it tastes’… I don’t know if Vishal aka Vicky has seen the movie ‘God Father’ or not, but his method of taking revenge is something like this. from the movie It’s like a dialogue. The story of the mass murder of the Rajendra Gupta family of Varanasi begins 28 years ago, on Tuesday, November 5, 1997, when Rajendra Gupta killed his younger brother Krishna and his wife in a property dispute.
The residents of that Bhadaini street say that Rajendra Gupta had decided to destroy his younger brother’s entire family. After the murder of husband and wife, the killers were also looking for the children, but five-year-old Dolly, along with her brother Vishal alias Vicky, two-and-a-half years old, and Prashant alias Jugnu, six months old, hid behind the closet and due to the uproar of the people, the murderers found them and Rajendra fled from there. Vicky was also hit by some shrapnel in the gunfire that occurred during that time.
A few days later, Rajendra was arrested and jailed. Due to the murder and jail, his first wife left him and went to Asansol in Bengal forever with his son. After being released from prison on parole, the property dispute did not leave him and Rajendra also killed his father, Lakshmi Narayan, and his bodyguard. Even after four consecutive murders, after two years he was released again on parole and married the daughter of one of his tenants. Neetu, from a Brahmin family, married Rajendra. Neetu’s family broke ties with her and left that place forever.
After a few years, Rajendra Gupta was acquitted due to witnesses breaking down, main witness mother Sharda Devi turning hostile and lack of evidence. After his acquittal, there was a certain stagnation in his life. In addition to the business of renting ancestral lands and rooms, he also allowed two rural liquor stores to open on his land, from which he began to earn good rents. During this time, he had two sons, Navnendra, Shubendra and a daughter, Gaurangi. All the children were good in studies. He got his three children and his brother’s children to study engineering and all three began to do private jobs abroad.
When and how did differences arise between Rajendra Gupta and his nephews?
Rajendra Gupta’s behavior with his nephews was such that Vicky and Jugnu did not like to see it. One reason for this is that Rajendra Gupta used to talk to his mother and sister by abusing them. During summer days he used to tie me up in the sun and beat me for small mistakes. Children longed for small joys like birthdays. Even Dolly’s marriage was jointly arranged by Vicky and Jugnu. Despite having a monthly income of thousands of rupees, Rajendra did not help even a single rupee. He definitely defended marriage under social pressure, but apart from this he did not provide any other help.
Both brothers also feared the threat of eviction from the property. He used to mention this to his grandmother too, but grandmother was also helpless. Both brothers were afraid of being evicted from the property and Rajendra Gupta did not help in his sister Dolly’s marriage, which took place a year ago, further strengthening this fear. Rajendra Gupta feared not only his family but also more than 40 tenants. On condition of anonymity, a tenant said Rajendra had a bad temper. He used to talk abusively to anyone. The nephews were not even free to celebrate their birthdays.
Then came November 5, 2024…
No matter who starts a story, it is not in their hands to finish it. The story that Rajendra Gupta began on Tuesday, November 5, 1997, ended on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. According to information received from police sources, Rajendra Gupta was shot in the early hours of Tuesday. The sequence of five murders began with the murder of Rajendra in an under-construction house in Meerapur Rampur village in Rohania police station area and then four other family members were murdered in a multi-storey house built in Bhadaini area in Bhelupur. police station area. The police consider Vicky to be the mastermind behind these five murders. Sharda Devi has also expressed doubts about Vicky.
Five police teams are busy searching for Vicky. Efforts are underway to arrest him based on his location in five states. Rajendra Gupta perhaps would not have imagined even in his dreams that on the same day, in the same manner and with the purpose for which the story had begun, the story of Rajendra Gupta would also be completed on the same date and in the same manner. .
