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?Killers? roaming scot-free
Murder in cold blood and yet get away with it. While this may not be a general rule but a couple of murders in the recent past have sent this message across. All you need is the power and pelf and the weight you can throw around for all the wrong reasons.
Murder in cold blood and yet get away with it. While this may not be a general rule but a couple of murders in the recent past have sent this message across. All you need is the power and pelf and the weight you can throw around for all the wrong reasons.
Whether it was the murder of Triveni Sheet Glass Factory Workers' Union president Amrendra Pandey or Nanhe Khan, the railway contractor or the 73-year-old Haider Hussain Khan, a fodder merchant, all have one thing in common. The prime killers in all these cases are not only roaming around with impunity but are also allegedly influencing police investigation.
On their part cops may be consoling the victims' family members but covertly they are allegedly hand in glove with the accused. And if cops feel their follow-up actions were hidden from public eyes, they are sadly mistaken. Everybody knows everything. While the first two cases have been allegedly botched up by the cops to a great extent, the men in uniform are in their usual self allegedly to botch up the third case also.
The prime accused in Haider Hussain Khan case, Shaukat, is openly threatening to carry out more murders. He has also allegedly succeeded in getting the investigation in this case transferred to Kareli police from the hands of Muthiganj police.
On their part, the Muthiganj police too have already given a suitable twist to the case. If what the station officer of this police station Virendra Yadav told the IG is correct, it goes against the allegation levelled by Tariq Khan, son of the victim, who was eyewitness to the murder.
According to Yadav, the murder was committed by Asif, brother of Shaukat. But Tariq who was with his father at the time of murder saw Shaukat allegedly firing with a katta at his father. As a result he named Shaukat and one Shakeel as both had come on a mobike to commit the murder.
It was around ten in the night on August 2, 2006 when Tariq and his aged father were returning home in a rickshaw.
The alleged killers and their brothers had been pressurising the victim to vacate the shop in which he used to store fodder for sale even after the latter had reportedly won the tenancy suit from the court of law. The old man who knew that his sons would not pick up his business had reportedly agreed to vacate three-fourth portion of the shop with the plea that a small part of the same be allowed to be retained by him till his death. But the old man's plea went on deaf years. He was brutally murdered before the eyes of his son who teaches in a coaching institute.
Tariq has already met the DIG, SSP and several other police officer pleading for justice which is yet to come.
