Unidentified miscreants struck terror when in a broad daylight shoot-out in Amethi, they tried to gun down former block head of Jagdishpur area, Rajesh Vikram Singh, whose wife is also a sitting block parmukh.
Singh, along with three more of his aides, were critically injured in the firing and they all were brought to Trauma Centre here at King Georges Medical University. local police which rushed to the spot and launched a hunt for the miscreants claimed that it could be a case of some gang rivalry as Rajesh Vikrim in a hardened criminal having his history sheet in the local police station and attack on him might have made to avenge some old killing.
Reports said that 39-year-old Rajesh Vikram Singh, a former block head of Jagdishpur, whose wife is now the president Block head, was going to the Thesil officer on a Safari when some unidentified miscreants all armed and occupying a Boloreo Jeep, intercepted them near Mishrauli turning on lucknow-Varanasi national highway on Friday afternoon. Before Rajesh Vikram Singh, or his cohorts could sense the danger, the miscreants in the jeep suddenly whipped out arms and opened indiscriminate fire on Rajesh Vikram in which he along with his aides identified as Anil Yadav, Rahul Singh, and Tinku Singh, all were critically injured.
The miscreants reportedly escaped after the shot-out. later, Rajesh Vikram and his cohorts were taken to District Hospital in Amethi from where the doctors referred them to lucknow. local police besides looking into other disputes of the victim, also looking rivalry between the gang members as Rajesh is also a listed criminal of the area.