Updated: December 19, 2020 10:46:40 am
A video capture of the incident.
Md Farooq Ahmed, chairman of the Adilabad district of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), was arrested on Friday night after he shot two people with his licensed weapon and wounded another with a knife during an altercation. during a cricket match near Tatiguda. location. The incident took place around 5 in the afternoon.
Police said a “minor fight that broke out between two local cricket-playing groups turned into a conflict involving the parents of the locals.”
Videos of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed Ahmed firing four rounds with his gun at a chasing mob. He could also be seen wielding a knife. Police identified the injured as Syed Zameer, with two gunshot wounds, Syed Mouthesin, with a gunshot wound, and Syed Mannan, who suffered a head injury.
Zameer’s eldest son told the media that Ahmed has been brandishing his gun in the town for some time and terrorizing the public. Meanwhile, Ahmed told reporters outside the police station that the mob tried to attack and kill him.
SP Vishnu Warrier told reporters that the injured were taken to RIMS hospital in Adilabad and then transferred to Hyderabad for better treatment. He said police controlled the situation and called on all parties to remain calm.
Two Town Police have registered a case under section 307 (attempted murder), 324 (Willfully causing harm with dangerous weapons), 506 r / w 34 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC and under sections 27 and 30 of the Act of Arms of 1959.
The preliminary investigation, police said, points to past grudges between the two sides as the source of the conflict.
The police have increased their presence in the town and have also written to the Adilabad district collector for the immediate cancellation of the defendant’s gun license.
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