In a broad daylight shoot-out in Gorakhpur, one villager was killed while three others which included a hardened criminal on whom attack was made, were critically injured on Wednesday. Two of the assailants were also lynched by the mob while the third shooter, was seriously injured. Senior police officers who rushed to the spot soon after learning of the incident had shifted the injured to hospital and were making investigation.
Reports said that property dealer, Dharmendra Paswan, a native of Kakrahiya hamlet of Pipraich in Gorakhpur, who is also a hardened criminal of the area was having some property related dispute with Raghvendra Pandey, hailing from Bitti Khoriya hamlet of Khajni in Gorakhpur district. The dispute took a bloodly turn on Wednesday morning when three motorcycle borne miscreants suddenly struck and opened indiscriminate fire on Dharmendra, who was standing near his house. While Dharmendra received bullet injuries, two more local residents identified as Virendra Nishad and Hind Paswan, were also injured in the process.
Reports further said that as the criminals were trying to flee from the spot, some local villagers gave them a chase and blocked the passage following which the miscreants tried to take U-turn and in the process their bike slipped and all the three fell on the road. Before they could again take position to terrorise the villagers, the agitated mob brutally assaulted them with sticks and rods in which two of the criminals died on the spot while the third one was critically injured. local police later took the injured to hospital where the 26-year-old villager, identified as Virendra Nishad, succumbed to the bullet injury. The identity of the criminals who were lynched has been made as Raghvendra Pandey, a native of Gorakhpur and Dheeru Mishra, hailing from Imiliya in Sultanpur. The injured criminal revealed his identity as Pawan Yadav, a resident of Naubastakhurd locality of Faijulaganj under Madiyaon police station in lucknow. IG (Gorakhpur Zone), Amitabh Yash, who visited the spot claimed that they deployed force in the locality to avert further clash and efforts were also made to nab the other members of the gang, who could avenge the killing in the future.
Meanwhile, in another shoot-out between two groups over property led to death of a minor innocent boy in Muzaffarnagaron Wednesday. Reports said that Gul Mohamed and Ifthikhar, both residents of Sikarpur area of Bhairukala in Muzaffarnagar, were having dispute over a piece of land. On Wednesday morning, Gul Mohamed, was making some construction at the disputed land following which Ifthikhar and his brother opposed and threatened Gul with dire consequences if he did not get the work stopped immediately. However, the matter took an ugly turn when after heated exchange of words, both the parties opened fire in which 13-year-old innocent boy, identified as Suhail Khan, was critically injured after he received a bullet injury. The villagers rushed him to district hospital but the doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. A case has been registered in this regard by the police and body was sent for post-mortem examination.