In yet another horrific incident in Steel city, a 27-year-old man was attacked with a sharp-edged weapon on his head and shot him to death at Birsanagar Zone No 3 under Birsanagar police station area near Telco on Saturday evening.
The victim has been identified as Rahul Shukla, alias Aju and is a son-in-law of Monu, brother of JVM leader Aalok Vajpai. Police said after killing Rahul, the attackers robbed his house and escaped from the place.
After hearing about the incident SSP Amol V Homkar, City SP Karthik S, Rural SP Shailendra Kumar Sinha along with other police officials rushed to the spot. Rahul was the only male member of the family and used to support the family of two by running a grocery shop located 200 metres away from his house.
The incident took place at around 6 pm and it was discovered when the victim’s mother Malti Shukla and his two sisters Punam and Smita returned from market at about 6.30 pm. On seeing her son lying still in a pool of blood, the mother became senseless.
Though the incident took place in the evening, when the locality was bustling with people, no one in the neighbourhood were able to say as to who the attackers were and how many of them had been involved in the gruesome killing.
The victim’s house was at the extreme corner of Zone No 3 and in front of the house is a big ground. Therefore, the people in the neighourhood might not have taken notice of the incident when it took place.
Rahul was attacked while he was watching a television serial. Sources said after sometime he was supposed to go to open the shop. Senior Superintendent of Police, Amol V Homkar, City SP, Karthik S and other police officers rushed to the spot on getting the information about the murder. Karthik, however, could not say exactly how many assailants had come to the house of the murder victim and who were they. The police have recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem.