Five members of a family were killed with sharp-edged weapons in Khevrajpur village in the district, police said on Saturday.
While the Samajwadi Party (SP) attacked the Yogi Adityanath government saying that Uttar Pradesh is "immersed in crime", Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati demanded a thorough probe into the incident.
The Tharwai Police Station received information around 5.30 a.m. that four-five people had been spotted dead in a house and on reaching there, police found the head of the house, Rajkumar (55), his daughter Manisha (25), his wife Kusum (50), his daughter-in-law Savita (30), and granddaughter Mitakshi (2) dead, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Kumar said.