Uttar Pradesh cop arrested for shooting Apple executive dead
Uttar Pradesh cop arrested for shooting Apple executive dead
An employee of a multinational company died after he was shot at allegedly by a police constable in Lucknow in the early hours of Saturday after he allegedly refused to stop his SUV during checking by the police.
The shooting took place at around 1:30 am in Lucknow's upscale Gomti Nagar extension area.
The driver of the SUV, identified as Vivek Tiwari, died of injuries at a hospital.
Police say Mr Tiwari was driving the SUV with a former colleague. Two policemen on patrol flagged his car, asking them to stop. The police say Mr Tiwari first hit the police patrol bike and then rammed a wall while allegedly trying to escape.
Mr Tiwari's co-passenger who filed a complaint later, however, has a different version. "The police just waylaid us and tried to stop us forcefully. Sir(Vivek Tiwari) didn't stop the car. We didn't release who they were. There was no accident. We were trying to leave from the side. We hit the bike but they had already lighted. One of them had a lathi. The man in the front just threw a revolver and fired," she said.
"We detained the police personnel who were on checking duty at the location. Our constable shot at a car on noticing suspicious activity, injuring the driver of the vehicle. On seeing police, the occupant of the car had tried to flee and rammed his car against a wall. He later died of injuries. Post mortem report to determine cause of death," said Kalanidhi Naithani, Lucknow's police chief. But the police haven't answered why their men opened fire on mere suspicion.
The police say it is still not clear whether the man died because of the bullet injury or because of a head injury sustained after his car rammed a wall.
-PTC News
