In a sensational incident four youths who killed a lawyer broad-day light were lynched by the villagers in Muzaffarnagar on Monday reminding the grisly riot in August forcing administration to go full throttle to bring situation under control.The four youth had earlier looted a car after killing its driver.
Angry locals later also torched the car and staged a protest till the police reached the spot. All the four bodies were sent for post-mortem examination and efforts were made to maintain their identity. The cops claimed that the car used for the crime was looted after killing one person in Bagpat district in the early morning on Monday.
local police which rushed to the spot along with senior officers were closely monitoring the situation as the area already witnessed worst ever communal riot just following a petty dispute over eve teasing. Heavy force has been also deployed in the area to avert any further fall out following killing of youths.
Reports said that advocate Sanjeev Malik (42), hailing from Khedigani hamlet of Phugana, in Muzaffarnagar, was going to collectorate on Monday morning when about half a dozen miscreants occupying a Wagor-R car ((Dl09CD-7465) intercepted him at Khedigani and opened indiscriminate fire and killed him on the spot.
The killers later tried to run away from the spot but some local villagers who claimed to be witnessed to the sensational crime gave the car a chase and managed to intercept inside the jungles between lusana and Hussainpur hamlet under Budhana police station.
The villagers claimed to have caught hold of four miscreants while one of them managed to escape. They brutally attacked all the four with sticks and rods and battered four to death before the local police arrived at scene of crime. The mob also torched the car.
Reports further said that while the cops recovered nothing through which they identify the victims but they traced out that the car used by them has been also looted in Bagpat just few hours before committing the second crime in Muzaffarnagar.
According to local police, their counterparts in Bagpat confirmed that the car was looted from Binauli locality after killing it’s driver Omveer alsoon Monday morning.
The local police in Bagpat also registered a case of murder in this regard. Further investigations are on and efforts were made to maintain identity of the victims so the motive behind killing the lawyer could be ascertained. However, SSP Muzaffarnagar, 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.