Three bike-borne assailants shot dead a 60-year-old retired roadways employee outside his house in Akaripur village of Pratapgarh allegedly over old enmity, police said.
Following the incident, an FIR has been lodged against Durgesh Pandey of Dhaurhara and two unknown persons at Aspur Devsara police station on the complaint of victim’s son. The police said deceased Shyam Shankar Tiwari was returning home from a temple around 9:30 pm when three men on a bike, who arrived from Narangpur area, intercepted him near his residence and fired three bullets.
On hearing gunshots, family members of the victim, including his son Shubham Kumar Tiwari alias Lalla, rushed to the spot. But by then, the assailants had managed to escape towards Dayalganj Bazar road.
They took Tiwari to a hospital where the doctors declared him dead. The police have begun a probe though no arrests have been made so far.
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE: The Allahabad High Court clarified that president of Oudh Bar Association (OBA), Lucknow will also be a member of the judicial committee, constituted by the court in the wake of the ongoing agitation of lawyers to redress their grievances. Earlier in an order dated September 9, 2023, the high court had directed that the judicial committee will comprise three sitting judges of the Allahabad High Court — Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta (chairman), Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Mohd Faiz Alam Khan. It also includes the advocate general of Uttar Pradesh or his nominee, chairman, Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh and president, High Court Bar Association.
The court had constituted this judicial committee to address the grievance of the lawyers regarding the police cane charge incident of Hapur.
The court also directed that it be informed about the actions taken on the first information report (FIR) lodged by the lawyers against the police personnel in respect of the incident. On September 11 a division bench comprising Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi said, “In order dated September 9, we had included president of Allahabad High Court Bar Association as its member, which included the president of Oudh Bar Association, Lucknow, as was our intent, however, to remove any scope for confusion in this regard, we explicitly provide that president of Oudh Bar Association, Lucknow would also be a member of the said committee.” The police had allegedly lathicharged lawyers on August 29 at Hapur district court when they were protesting the registration of a case against a woman advocate and her father around a week ago. The lawyers across the state, on a call given by the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh have been boycotting the judicial work since then.