Political rivalry leads to late night shoot-out in Gorakhpur

Political rivalry reportedly led to late night shoot-out in Gorakhpur in which a sitting gram pradhan of Samajwadi Party was sprayed with bullets on Thursday.

The sensational killing was allegedly masterminded by local Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MlA from Chauri-Chaura constituency, Jai Prakash Nishad and executed by his close henchmen.

A case has been registered in this regard by the police in which BSP MlA was also named and two of the accused were held. They were reportedly grilled by senior officers to extract the names of those involved in the shoot-out.

IG (Gorakhpur Zone), Amitabh Yash, who visited the spot claimed that force has been deployed in the area following tension between supporters of the two Parties. He said that teams were also formed to arrest the accused.

In a report lodged with the Chauri-Chaura police station, Brij Kishore Yadav, hailing from Mahadev Jungle area in Gorakhpur, claimed that 20-days back, the local BSP MlA along with 7 of his henchmen visited his house. He claimed that the MlA shouted that his son  Manoj Yadav, who is sitting pradhan of Radhupur area in Chauri-Chaura, was daring to make political atmosphere against him (MlA). later using abusive language against his son, Jai Prakash,  threatened to kill his son.

Brij disclosed that he brought the matter in the knowledge of the local police but as the accused was a sitting MlA so the cops took no cognizance of the matter. However, according to the complainant, Jai Prakash, seems to have learnt about their move so in wake of political rivalry, he orchestrated killing of his son Manoj.

He said that as per the plan, Jai Prakash’s henchmen whom he identified as Durgesh Chowdhary, Kamendra, Krishna Chowdhary, Ravi Nishad, Vivek Yadav and one unknown assailant, all occupying three motorcycles struck at his residence late on Thursday night.

Brij claimed that they pulled out his son who opened the door and opened indiscriminate fire in which Manoj was critically injured. He said that the villagers came out to rescue his son after which the accused absconded. The gram pradhan was immediately rushed to BRD Medical College but the doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.

Agitated with the killing, local villagers also gathered and raised slogan. later the cops swung into action and claimed to have conducted series of raids and managed to round up two of the name accused Durgesh and Vivek Yadav. Further investigations are on in the matter.