Tension prevailed in Muzaffarnagar after a sensational shoot-out in the district on Thursday light left three dead and over half a dozen others seriously injured. Eyewitnesses claimed that the miscreants fired at least 100 rounds of firing creating a terror in the entire locality.
local police along with senior officers later reached the spot and shifted the injured to hospital. IG Meerut Zone Sujeet Pande along with DIG of Saharanpur JK Shahi and district magistrate of Muzaffarnagar also visited the spot and later deployed heavy police force to avert any further clash in the area.
Teams were also formed to nab the criminals who fled from the scene of crime before arrival of the police.
Reports said that the incident took place when Islam and his brother Akram, both residents of Kidwainagar area of Kotwali Muzaffarnagar went to collect Rs 80,000 which they claimed to have won in lottery from Waseem, owning a hotel in Daroga Ki Kothi area also under Kotwali area on Thursday night.
According to the complainant Naushad, as the two reached and demanded to clear the payment, Waseem, Nadeem both brothers, Parvej along with Shahnawaj, Shakir, Sakib, Naseem, Rasheed, and their associates opened fire burst in which both Islam and Akram were critically injured. Hearing the gun shots, his other family members including his brother rushed to the rescue of victims but in the procees, his brother Gulsher, his uncles Shamsher & Akhtar, along with some other local residents were also critically injured.
Nausad claimed that when the firing stopped and the accused absconded, local police reached the spot and shifted the injured to hospital where Islam, Gulsher and Akhtar were pronounced dead upon arrival while the other critically injured where shifted to Medical College in Meerut. Due to terror in the area, the entire market remained closed on Friday. Raids were also conducted to nab the culprits but all were found absconding.