UP man goes to lodge FIR at SP office, killed minutes later

LUCKNOW: Minutes after coming out from the office of superintendent of police on Monday afternoon, a man was abducted by goons in an SUV, killed and dumped in a canal in Kotwali dehat area of Sultanpur district. He was declared brought dead when police took him to hospital.
The victim, Mohd Moid, a lineman in the state energy department, had gone to SP office to lodge a complaint against his rivals. According to Moid’s family, he was abducted a kilometre away from SP office.
The victim’s brother, Mohd Mukim said in complaint that Moid was returning after giving a complaint to SP about threat to his life from Mohammed Israel, Meraz, Dilshad, Naushad, Akram, Aslam, Azad, Amzad, Mahemdul and Mushtaq.
Moid had taken along Mukim, Zaid and Khalid with him to SP office. “We came out from SP office around 1.30pm and stopped to fill air in tyres when the accused came carrying arms, iron rods and lathis and attacked us. They hit me with an iron rod. Zaid and Khalid were also brutally thrashed with hockey sticks. In the meantime, Israel and his accomplices dragged Moid to their SUV and drove away,” said Mukim in his complaint.
“When we regained consciousness we informed UP100. The accused thrashed Moid, dumped him in the canal on seeing cops chasing them and sped away,” he added. Police took Moid to district hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Sultanpur SP, Himanshu Kumar, told TOI, “An FIR has been registered against the named accused on charges of murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping in order to murder, rioting, intentionally causing hurt.”
“Moid and Israel are rivals having shady past and have dispute over possession of property and land since 10 years. Moid had nine cases registered against him, while Israel has three cases registered against him,” said police.
Mukim alleged that Moid had informed police that he was being threatened by rivals but no action was taken and case was not lodged.
State police chief has instructed the special task force of UP police to arrest the miscreants.