New Delhi: Two Muslim men accused in the murder of a Hindu youth during the recent communal incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich were on Thursday (October 17) shot in the leg by police and arrested near the Indo-Nepal border, said officials.
Police alleged that the two accused persons were shot after they fired at the police team that had accompanied them to a location in Bahraich’s Nanpara area to recover the weapon used in the murder of Ram Gopal Mishra during the Durga idol procession on Sunday.
Along with the two persons who were shot – Mohammad Sarfaraz and Mohammad Taleem – police said they arrested three others linked to Mishra’s killing. They were identified as Abdul Hamid (Sarfaraz’s father), Mohammad Faheem and Mohammad Afzal.
The shooting of Sarfaraz and Taleem came less than a day after the former’s sister Ruqsar had come out in the media and expressed an apprehension that the police could shoot dead her brothers (Sarfaraz and co-accused Faheem), father Hamid, husband Osama and brother-in-law Shahid.
Ruqsar alleged that her husband and her brother-in-law had been picked up by the police from their residence in the Kewanaganj area of Bahraich on Monday, a day after the violence in the........