Man shot dead by UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANTS

GHAZIABAD: Two unidentified bike-borne assailants shot dead a 35-year-old man while injured the other occupants of the car in the Sahibabad area of Ghaziabad on late Sunday night. Police suspect it to be a case of road rage as a heated argument broke out between them over rash driving.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Gyanendar (35) who was returning home with Jitender and one more occupant in his Hyundai Santro car. As the car reached Tulsiniketan area, two bike-borne miscreants allegedly overtook their car and stopped it.

The police said that the bike-borne duo overtook the car and started heated arguments over rash driving. As the argument turned ugly, they took out a gun and opened fire on them. The motorcyclists then fled away from the spot after the incident.

"The incident was reported on late Sunday night at around 11 pm. A police team rushed to the spot and took the victims to a nearby hospital where Gyanendar was declared brought dead while Jitender is said to be critical. The third person was discharged after first-aid," said Rakesh Kumar Singh, Station House Officer, Sahibabad police station.

The police said that prima facie it seems to be a case out of road rage. However, they are not ruling out any possibility of personal enmity or revenge.

"Based on the complaint filed by the family members, a case under 302 (murder) and other relevant sections of the penal code have been registered. While teams have been formed to ascertain the identity of the criminals, the police are investigating all the possible angles," added Singh. GURUGRAM: Having witnessed a large scale real estate development, encroachment of government land for the private use is not a new phenomenon in Millennium City Gurugram as certain reports have found that there is also a deep nexus between the officials and the builders. Now, in a new land grabbing case, it has emerged that large tracts of Panchayat land in Sikanderpur village along the prime land of MG road is being used for private purposes.

Facing a major loss, the Chief Minister's Office has directed the district administration to order a probe into the matter. It is important to note that the state authorities are already embroiled in various legal cases over the encroachments that have taken place in the green belt of Aravallis around the area.

The authorities in the past took action against officials that registered the land without proper registrations following the rise in the number of illegal colonies, landholdings and commercial establishments in Gurugram.

Allegations have also been leveled against senior officials in the past for changing the land use pattern for profit. Most of the builder mafia have been successful in selling plots in the illegal colonies because of the irregularities in land registrations and thus earning huge profits.

Highlighting irregularities in land registrations, Gurugram MLA Umesh Aggarwal in December last year had hit out at former DC TL Satyaprakash for failing to prevent losses to the state exchequer. The ambiguities in the law have allowed the encroachers to target the green belt area of Aravallis.

Presently, the Gurugram Forest Division is involved in over 30 cases over the Aravallis in the state. The cases range from encroachments, forest act violations and changing of land use patterns in the area to favour building activities in the green belt area. The legal cases over Aravallis are being fought in the District courts of Gurugram, Punjab and Haryana High Court, National Green Tribunal (NGT) and also in the Supreme Court.

Based on the documents shared, most of the encroachment cases are against private builders who took up project in the green belt of Aravallis. Cases have also been filed by petitioners on the issue of violation of forest acts and felling of the trees in the Aravallis. As many as 12 cases are filed in the National Green Tribunal on Aravallis situated in the Gurugram belt.

Most of the cases filed with the NGT are regarding the violation of environmental norms, encroachments, and change of land use pattern by the government.

Police suspect it to be a road rage case as a heated argument broke out between the victim and the assailants