Lawyer shot on Basti court campus
Gorakhpur: A lawyer was shot dead in the district court compound in Basti on Thursday afternoon. Police have sent the body for postmortem examination and launched a probe. The police are in the process of filing an FIR .
According to reports, advocate Jagnarayan Yadav was working at his desk on the court campus around 3.30pm when a youth approached him.
He struck a conversation for a few minutes and then took out a pistol and shot the lawyer.
Scores of lawyers and other people tried to chase the youth, but he escaped after threatening them with the pistol. Police rushed a profusely bleeding Yadav to hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.
“The reason behind the murder is yet not clear. Yadav was a native of Kaptanganj village and had represented a case in which some people of his village were punished by court. Nothing can be said before investigation is over,” said ASP Basti Pankaj Kumar.
Scores of lawyers and other people tried to chase the youth, but he escaped after threatening them with the pistol. Police rushed a profusely bleeding Yadav to hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.
“The reason behind the murder is yet not clear. Yadav was a native of Kaptanganj village and had represented a case in which some people of his village were punished by court. Nothing can be said before investigation is over,” said ASP Basti Pankaj Kumar.
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