In a sensational broad daylight shoot-out in Ghazipur district, a worker of the Rastriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), who is also working as a journalist and running a shop in the district, was killed while his brother was critically injured on Saturday.
The bike-borne assailants escaped soon after opening indiscriminate fire. local police rushed to the spot claimed that they got some inputs about the killer and that the killing seems to be a fall out of some political rivalry. Further investigations are on and the body was sent for post-mortem examination.
According to senior police officials who reached the spot, three assailants all riding on one motorbike opened volley of fire on RSS worker, Rajesh Mishra (40), who is also a journalist, when he and his brother were sitting in their building material shop
in Brahmanpura Chatti on Saturday morning. The accused later escaped from the spot. While Rajesh succumbed to the bullets at the spot, his brother Amitesh Mishra (35)received bullet on his abdomen.
He was rushed to local primary health centre (PHC) from where the doctors referred him to district hospital where his condition was stated to be Rs critical’. He was later shifted to Medical College in Varanasi and was battling for his life at the time of filing this report. ADG law and Order Anand Kumar said here on Saturday evening that two of the attackers have been identified. “Of the three assailants, two have been identified, and soon all of them will be arrested,” he added.
Meanwhile a woman was also said to be raped and murdered in Bareilly. Reports said that the cops of the CB Ganj Police Station in Bareilly rushed to Khaduwa hamlet in Parsakhere locality after learning that body of an unknown woman was lying in the fields on Saturday afternoon. The cops rushed and found that the woman was gang raped somewhere else and later killed before her body was dumped at a secluded place sometime in the night. The circumstantial evidences suggested that the killers were known to the victims hence to conceal her identity they not just dumped her body but also burnt her face so that she could not be identified. local police sent the body for autopsy test and were making all out efforts to maintain identity of the victim.