Brother of a BJP leader of the city had a miraculous escape after two masked miscreants shot at him at his shop in Madina Nagar on Saturday morning. The victim who survived the attack has accused another BJP leader of the locality for the incident.
According to Sanyogitaganj police, the incident occurred on Saturday morning at around 6 am when the victim Ashfaq Khan, brother of a local BJP leader and former president of the Waqf Boad Yunush Khan had gone to open his hotel — Baba Hotel in Madina Nagar when four motorcycle borne masked youths fired at him with a revolver. Surprisingly Ashfaq survived the attack.
Soon after being informed about the matter, a police team from Sanyogitaganj police arrived at the incident site and took the cover of misfired bullet in its possession. BJP leader and brother of the victim Yunus Khan who had also arrived at the incident site, informed police that they had a tiff with another BJP leader of the locality Gabbu Mamu over a plot measuring 8,000 sqft located in lambu Ki Gali. He said that Gabbu Mamu was trying to take possession of this land. In this regard, he had a lodged a complaint previously with the police along with tenant of that plot.
He said last night, Samir lala, son of Gabbu Mamu had called them at Khatiwala Tank on the pretext of making payment to them. Samir lala had come to Khatiwala Tank along with 7-8 persons and had tried to attack them but could not succeed. From the spot, Yunus said he took one Kapil in its custody and took him to June Indore police station. Kapil in his statement before the police had also named Samir lala.
Meanwhile, Gabbu Mama, father of Samir lala has disapproved of the allegation of Yunus Khan maintaining that his son was in the house light night and it can be verified from the CCTV footage of his house.
Political animosity has also been stated to be the reason behind the incident. According to report, wives of both Yunus Khan and Gabbu Mama had fought last municipal corporation elections against each other. While wife of Gabbu Mama had fought the last municipal corporation election on the BJP ticket, wife of Yunus Khan in the wake of denial of party ticket to her, fought election against Gabbu Mama’s wife as an independent candidate. Yunus Khan has also accused Gabbu Mama of conspiring his murder. Meanwhile, Sanyogitaganj police have registered the case had started probe.