KANPUR: A 38-year-old journalist - Naveen Gupta working with a national Hindi daily was shot dead in Billhaur area of the district on Thursday evening.
Police have registered a case of murder against unidentified men and rounded up nearly half-a-dozen suspects for an early breakthrough, superintendent of police (rural) GP Singh told TOI.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the state DGP to follow up the investigation into the murder.
The incident occurred at a market near Billhaur Nagar Palika around 5:30 pm when three persons on a two-wheeler arrived at the family shop where Naveen was sitting. It was after he came out of the shop, the assailants whipped out firearms and sprayed bullets on him, a police official at Billhaur Kotwali police station said.
The trio fled the spot on their motorcycle soon after committing the crime, he said.
Gupta was rushed to a nearby hospital by family members and local shopkeepers who reached the spot after hearing gunshot sound.
He was declared brought dead by doctors at the hospital, the police official said. Senior police officials including SSP Akhilesh Kumar Meena, besides a forensic team experts reached the site and launched an investigation in this regard.
Gupta was a social person and he used to help people in his capacity, said local sources further.
On the motive behind the crime, SP (rural) GP Singh said, police is trying to speak to his family members in this regard.
"Five bullets each hit Naveen in his vital body parts. We have rounded up few persons and investigation is on," SP (rural) GP Singh said without elaborating.
Police have registered a case of murder against unidentified men and rounded up nearly half-a-dozen suspects for an early breakthrough, superintendent of police (rural) GP Singh told TOI.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the state DGP to follow up the investigation into the murder.
The incident occurred at a market near Billhaur Nagar Palika around 5:30 pm when three persons on a two-wheeler arrived at the family shop where Naveen was sitting. It was after he came out of the shop, the assailants whipped out firearms and sprayed bullets on him, a police official at Billhaur Kotwali police station said.
The trio fled the spot on their motorcycle soon after committing the crime, he said.
Gupta was rushed to a nearby hospital by family members and local shopkeepers who reached the spot after hearing gunshot sound.
He was declared brought dead by doctors at the hospital, the police official said. Senior police officials including SSP Akhilesh Kumar Meena, besides a forensic team experts reached the site and launched an investigation in this regard.
Gupta was a social person and he used to help people in his capacity, said local sources further.
On the motive behind the crime, SP (rural) GP Singh said, police is trying to speak to his family members in this regard.
"Five bullets each hit Naveen in his vital body parts. We have rounded up few persons and investigation is on," SP (rural) GP Singh said without elaborating.
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