Man shoots son’s friend in Panki

Kanpur: A man shot dead his son’s friend with his licenced gun following a drunken brawl in Panki’s Ratanpur EWS Colony on Wednesday night.
According to reports, the man had tried to stop the fight between his two sons and their friends, but lost his temper and opened fire from his licenced single barrel gun. Police on being informed rushed to the spot and recovered the gun and arrested the accused and his two sons.
Triyogi Naraian alias Rakesh, a resident of Ratanpur Colony, was a security guard in a private company a few years ago. About 22 years ago, he had taken a license for a single barrel gun.
He has two sons, Sonu and Monu, who work as labourers in the area. According to the police, Sonu had a close friendship with his 25-year-old painter Dharmendra Pal, a resident of the same area.
On Wednesday night, Dharmendra was sitting at a shop in the area, when Monu reached there in an inebriated state.
Later, Monu entered into an altercation with Dharmendra over some issue following which the latter started thrashing him.
When Monu’s brother Sonu came to save him, Dharmendra assaulted him too.
On coming across the commotion, Monu and Sonu’s father Triyogi Narayan rushed to the spot and tried to pacify the fight between sons and their friend Dharmendra.
However, later when Dharmendra resorted to brick-batting on Triyogi’s house, he brought his licenced gun and opened fire on Dharmendra. The bullet hit Dharmendra’s neck and he collapsed.
He was taken to a nearby hospital, where the doctor declared him dead.
The police on being alerted reached the spot and took the accused man and his two sons into custody and seized the firearm after recovering it from his house. Police shifted the body to the mortuary. “An FIR has been lodged under relevant sections of IPC and investigations are continuing,” said DCP West Sanjiv Tyagi.