Two suspected hitmen accused of murdering a 20-year-old man were arrested following an encounter with police in the city of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Wednesday. One of them was injured in the confrontation that took place Tuesday night, he said.
The accused, Shakir (23) and Aman Shah (22), were asked to stop when they were seen on Tuesday night in Scheme Number-140 area, but they fired at the police party, deputy commissioner of police ( DCP), Vinod Kumar Meena. he told reporters.
Both were given adequate opportunity to surrender, but they continued to fire at police, he said. One of the three bullets fired by the accused hit the glass of the police jeep and passed near an inspector’s ear, the official said.
“The police team fired a bullet in self-defence which hit Shakir’s leg, while Shah was trapped on the spot,” he said. Shakir, who was injured in the encounter with the police, was admitted to the Maharaja Yeshwantrao government hospital, the official said.
The DCP said that Shakir and Shah allegedly shot dead a man, Moin Khan (20), on the night of May 12 in Azad Nagar area and fled. Khan’s elder brother married a woman a year ago after a love affair, but his family was not happy about it, the police officer said.
The woman’s family had allegedly given a ‘supari’ (contract) of Rs 3 lakh to Shakir and Shah to kill Khan, he said. Shakir already has five criminal cases registered against him in the city, the official added.
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