<p class="bodytext">Panic gripped Tikaria village here on Tuesday night after three motorcycle-borne masked assailants opened fire at the house of the village head.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The village head, Akhilesh Singh, is lodged in Gorakhpur district jail since 2016 in a murder case and his wife Ranjana Devi stays in the house with their 12-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter, police said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three empty cartridges were recovered from the spot, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the complaint lodged by Devi at Sahjanwa police station, around 11 pm on Tuesday, three masked men came on a motorcycle, knocked on the door of her house and opened fire.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My husband is involved in a property dispute with three people -- Anand Kumar, Pradeep Yadav and Sujit Rawat -- and the case is in court. First, they framed my husband in a murder case and now they are frightening me to drop the property case," she alleged.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Police reached the spot after getting the information and recovered three empty cartridges. An investigation has been launched and a case will be registered soon," Circle Officer Rahul Bhati said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">Panic gripped Tikaria village here on Tuesday night after three motorcycle-borne masked assailants opened fire at the house of the village head.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The village head, Akhilesh Singh, is lodged in Gorakhpur district jail since 2016 in a murder case and his wife Ranjana Devi stays in the house with their 12-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter, police said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three empty cartridges were recovered from the spot, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the complaint lodged by Devi at Sahjanwa police station, around 11 pm on Tuesday, three masked men came on a motorcycle, knocked on the door of her house and opened fire.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My husband is involved in a property dispute with three people -- Anand Kumar, Pradeep Yadav and Sujit Rawat -- and the case is in court. First, they framed my husband in a murder case and now they are frightening me to drop the property case," she alleged.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Police reached the spot after getting the information and recovered three empty cartridges. An investigation has been launched and a case will be registered soon," Circle Officer Rahul Bhati said.</p>