Fight over seat in bus claims man’s life

ROHTAK:A THE 24YEAROLD SON OF A DELHI COP WAS SHOT DEAD OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE IN ROHTAK FOLLOWING THE FIGHT

24-year-old man was on Thursday night shot dead outside his house in Mokhra Khas village of the district, police said. The deceased has been identified as Milan Kumar, son of assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Anand Kumar of the Delhi Police. He was taking coaching for the Haryana Police exam from a private institute in Rohtak city.

Milan’s mother Sarla Devi said, “On Wednesday, my son had an altercation with Mohit, alias Majnu, of our village over a seat in Haryana Roadways bus when they were coming back from the old bus stand in Rohtak. Keeping a grudge, Mohit along with his friends had beaten Milan on Thursday afternoon and threatened to kill him saying he had contacts with the gangsters.”

Devi said soon after the threat, Milan approached Rohtak Police at the old city police station and lodged a complaint against Mohit and his friends. However, no FIR was lodged on his complaint.

“On Thursday night, Mohit’s friend Ankit and one more person knocked our door and asked me to call Milan outside. He said he wanted to sort out the afternoon’s fight. When my son came out and started talking to them, Ankit asked me to fetch them a glass of water. I went inside to the kitchen but rushed outside again when I heard gunshots. When I came out, I found my son Milan lying in a pool of blood while Ankit and the other person fleeing away on their bike flaunting their gun in the air,” Devi said.

The family rushed Milan to hospital, where doctors pronounced him brought dead. He suffered four bullet shots. The police said they handed the body back to the family after postmortem. A case of murder and criminal conspiracy has been registered against six men, five of whom have been named in the FIR as Ankit, Mohit, Jacky, Sumit and Nitin. One more person booked is unknown.

Meham police station SHO Manjeet said no arrest has been made as of now. “All the accused are on the run and a hunt is on to nab them,” he said. On being asked why the police did not register a case against the accused when deceased had complained of threat, the SHO said he could not comment as the complaint was not filed in his police station.

SHO city police station Jagbir Singh said a written complaint was not provided to them and they had called Milan to lodge his statement for FIR next morning (Friday), however, the accused killed him before that time.