Murder convict dies in Deoria jail

Muzaffarnagar, Social Times. On Sunday a 66-year-old murder convict has died in Deoria district jail.

Sushil Shukla was suffering from cancer and died on Saturday.

He was shifted to Deoria district jail in 2017 on administrative grounds from here.

According to jail authorities, Shukla was involved in several cases of murder,, including the 2011 Barkali killing case in the district in which eight people of a family were gunned down. Sugarcane society chairman Udayveer Singh was among those killed.