In a sensational incident four youths who killed a lawyer on Monday morning were lynched by villagers in Muzaffarnagar forcing the district administration to go full throttle to bring the situation under control. The four youths had earlier looted a car after killing its driver.
Angry locals later torched the car in which the four murderers were travelling and staged a protest till the police reached the spot. All the four bodies were sent for post-mortem. Identity of the dead could not be established.
local police which rushed to the spot are closely monitoring the situation as the area recently witnessed a communal riot triggered by a petty dispute over eve-teasing. Heavy force has been deployed in the area.
Reports said that advocate Sanjeev Malik (42), hailing from Khedigani hamlet of Phugana in Muzaffarnagar, was going to the collectorate on Monday morning when about half-a-dozen miscreants in a Wagon-R car (Dl09CD-7465) intercepted him at Khedigani and opened indiscriminate fire killing Malik on the spot. The killers later tried to run away from the spot but some local villagers who claimed to have witnessed the sensational crime gave the car a chase and managed to intercept them inside the jungles between lusana and Hussainpur hamlet under Budhana police station.
The villagers caught hold of four miscreants while one of them managed to escape. They brutally attacked all the four with rods in which all the four died. The police said the five youths had looted the car from Binauli locality in Bagpat after killing its driver Omveer on Monday morning.
Motive behind the killing of the lawyer could be ascertained, however, Muzaffarnagar SSP HN Singh claimed that they suspected that Sanjiv Malik, who was former General Secretary of Budhana Bar Association, was shot dead over an old enmity.