Is an invaluable and precious human life worth less than the price of two chapatis; well the answer would certainly be in the affirmative if the person who lost his life in the bargain was a resident of Akhilesh Singh Yadav's lawless and jungle like Uttar Pradesh..........
A 26 year old waiter was allegedly shot dead by a group of 8-9 inebriated; irate and incensed men within the precincts of the Libra Hotel located on Meerut's Begumpul Road a little after 10 pm on Wednesday night as he insisted that the men who shot him from close range settle their bill and pay up for the additional two chapatis/rotis they had ordered during the course of their mammoth meal..........
According to eyewitness accounts; a minimum of 8-9 totally sozzled and quarrelsome men were totally responsible for the fracas as they had picked up an increasingly raucous and acrimonious quarrel amongst themselves on the issue of settling their bill and the unfortunate waiter who was shot dead tried to intervene and sort out the fracas/imbroglio............
Despite Ratan Singh's (the waiter's) repeated entreaties and homilies; the haughty men steadfastly refused to pay for the additional rotis they had ordered and they even got into an ugly and fratricidal scuffle with him; before one amongst them whipped out a revolver in the batting of an eyelid and shot at Ratan Singh from extremely close quarters.........
Ratan Singh who originally hailed from Uttarakhand's Kumaon region in search of green pastures; had made Meerut his home ever since and was residing therein for the last eight and a bit years and his assailants fired a few shots in the air to disperse the congregation within the Libra hotel and also facilitate their facile escape from the murder site..........
On hearing the sounds of the shots being fired in the air all the people gathered in the vicinity of the Libra Hotel ran helter skelter like a group of headless chickens; though a few enterprising one's among the crowd showed the presence of mind to capture the sordid proceedings on their mobile phones which provided the police personnel who arrived on the spot a good 25 minutes or so after Ratan Singh was shot at with vital clues and also helped them in establishing the identities of Ratan Singh's cold blooded murderers..........
Lo and behold! the Meerut police sleuths managed to lay their hands on three of the eight assailants by late Thursday evening from three different locations in and around Meerut city and have launched a massive manhunt in order to nab the remaining five murderers at the earliest.........
What is most galling about the unsavoury and totally senseless incident is the fact that the Begumpul Police Station is barely located 500 metres or so away from the Libra Hotel and yet all the accused managed to make good their escape from the murder site despite letting loose a volley of shots in the air............Policing Akhilesh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Police ishytle or then simply a case of policing in accordance with the laid down wishes of their political masters and overlords.........
A 26 year old waiter was allegedly shot dead by a group of 8-9 inebriated; irate and incensed men within the precincts of the Libra Hotel located on Meerut's Begumpul Road a little after 10 pm on Wednesday night as he insisted that the men who shot him from close range settle their bill and pay up for the additional two chapatis/rotis they had ordered during the course of their mammoth meal..........
According to eyewitness accounts; a minimum of 8-9 totally sozzled and quarrelsome men were totally responsible for the fracas as they had picked up an increasingly raucous and acrimonious quarrel amongst themselves on the issue of settling their bill and the unfortunate waiter who was shot dead tried to intervene and sort out the fracas/imbroglio............
Despite Ratan Singh's (the waiter's) repeated entreaties and homilies; the haughty men steadfastly refused to pay for the additional rotis they had ordered and they even got into an ugly and fratricidal scuffle with him; before one amongst them whipped out a revolver in the batting of an eyelid and shot at Ratan Singh from extremely close quarters.........
Ratan Singh who originally hailed from Uttarakhand's Kumaon region in search of green pastures; had made Meerut his home ever since and was residing therein for the last eight and a bit years and his assailants fired a few shots in the air to disperse the congregation within the Libra hotel and also facilitate their facile escape from the murder site..........
On hearing the sounds of the shots being fired in the air all the people gathered in the vicinity of the Libra Hotel ran helter skelter like a group of headless chickens; though a few enterprising one's among the crowd showed the presence of mind to capture the sordid proceedings on their mobile phones which provided the police personnel who arrived on the spot a good 25 minutes or so after Ratan Singh was shot at with vital clues and also helped them in establishing the identities of Ratan Singh's cold blooded murderers..........
Lo and behold! the Meerut police sleuths managed to lay their hands on three of the eight assailants by late Thursday evening from three different locations in and around Meerut city and have launched a massive manhunt in order to nab the remaining five murderers at the earliest.........
What is most galling about the unsavoury and totally senseless incident is the fact that the Begumpul Police Station is barely located 500 metres or so away from the Libra Hotel and yet all the accused managed to make good their escape from the murder site despite letting loose a volley of shots in the air............Policing Akhilesh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Police ishytle or then simply a case of policing in accordance with the laid down wishes of their political masters and overlords.........
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