KANPUR, Oct. 24 -- A 28-year-old liquor shop salesman was allegedly murdered with a sharp-edged weapon and a wooden stick while sleeping outside the shop in Bindki, Fatehpur, late Thursday night. The assailants then allegedly used a key kept near his cot to unlock the shop and fled with Rs.2.5 lakh in cash. The victim, Satyendra Singh Chauhan, was a resident of the Durei village and worked at a composite liquor shop operating from the house of Sher Singh Gautam, another village resident. After closing the shop on Thursday night, he went to sleep on a cot under a tin shed outside the premises. According to the victim's brother, Dhirendra Singh, village watchman Surendra was sent to the shop to buy liquor. On reaching there, he found Satyendra lying in a pool of blood. He rushed back and informed the victim's family. Dhirendra, a paddy trader, said he had also kept around Rs.1.5 lakh from paddy sales at the shop. The assailants took away Rs.2.5 lakh in total, he added. Police reached the spot after being informed about the murder. Fatehpur SP Abhimanyu Manglik also inspected the scene and formed four teams to investigate the case and identify the accused. Manglik said the teams had been tasked with cracking the case and expressed confidence that the murder would be solved soon....