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Two Arrested for Brutal Murder of Teacher Couple in Sultanpur Robbery
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News18•06-10-2026, 00:30
Two Arrested for Brutal Murder of Teacher Couple in Sultanpur Robbery
- •Two men have been arrested for the murder of a teacher couple during an attempted robbery in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district.
- •One of the accused, Rakesh Kumar Yadav, worked as a school bus driver and computer teacher at the victims' privately run school.
- •The victims, Mukesh and Vinita, were attacked with a spade and an axe after Vinita caught the accused trying to steal money from a locker.
- •Police recovered stolen cash, the victim's Aadhaar card, and the weapons used in the crime from the suspects.
- •The arrests were made near a canal bridge following a thorough investigation involving forensic teams and surveillance.
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Two men were arrested for the double murder: Rakesh Kumar Yadav, a 36-year-old school bus driver-cum-computer teacher who worked at the victims' school, and his 26-year-old relative Ashish Yadav, also known as Dabbu Yadav.
The suspects planned a robbery at the Manraji Educational Institute on September 28. When teacher Vinita caught Rakesh trying to open a locker and raised an alarm, she was attacked with a spade, and her husband Mukesh was subsequently chased and killed with an axe.
Police recovered cash totaling Rs 18,220 from Rakesh and Rs 16,740 from Ashish, along with Vinita’s Aadhaar card, a spade, an axe, bloodstained clothes, and digital transaction traces from Vinita's mobile phone before it was thrown into a well.
