Shivpal Yadav joins medical students’ stir in Saifai

KANPUR: President of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), Shivpal Yadav on Thursday extended support to the agitating Saifai medical university students and sat on a dharna with them at the university against murderous assault on a junior resident doctor in a loot bid on late Wednesday night near Muchahra village under Saifai in Etawah.

After taking part in the students’ agitation, who were seeking immediate arrest of the culprits and tightening of security, Shivpal also visited the emergency ward of the university where the injured medical student is undergoing treatment.

He enquired about his well-being and also spoke to the doctors attending him. Shivpal also spoke to senior police officials and the injured medical student’s female colleague, who was accompanying him at the time of the attack. Vipin, an MBBS student of the university, was shot at and critically injured in a loot bid late on Wednesday night while he along with his female colleague Puja Yadav had gone to a fuel station near Muchahra village on a two-wheeler in Saifai.

Police said the three assailants riding a two-wheeler intercepted them and shot at Vipin when he tried to resist the loot bid. He was later admitted to the Saifai medical university. After the medical students came to know about the incident, they protested at the university demanding action against accused.

Shivpal, who represents Jaswantnagar assembly, slammed police. “Saifai police has become ‘nakara’ (inept),” he said.