Overview
- Police in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, began a hunt Sunday after the shooting left a mother, Shanti, and her younger son, Devidin, dead inside their Baberu home.
- Officers said a long fight over ancestral land boiled over when the father sold a portion of the property without the accused's consent.
- The suspect was named as Rajkishore Gupta in several police briefings, though some early reports used the surname Mishra.
- Investigators said a licensed firearm was used, and forensic teams examined the scene before sending both bodies for postmortem.
- The man remains on the run as four police teams search for him and a case is set to be filed, reflecting how land feuds in rural Uttar Pradesh often erupt into violence.