RSS worker shot dead in UP

Lucknow, October 21

Tension gripped Ghazipur today after three motorcycle-borne men shot dead 38-year old RSS worker Rajesh Mishra, a journalist with a national Hindi daily, and critically injured his younger brother. Angry protesters collected near the district hospital in large numbers.They forced shopkeepers to down their shutters.

Rajesh was sitting in his  building material shop, a kilometre from his house, when unidentified assailants opened indiscriminate fire, killing him on the spot, said police sources.

Hearing the shots, his  35-year-old brother Anitesh, working in fields at the rear-end of the shop, came running. He was shot at and rushed to the district hospital and later shifted to Varanasi. His condition is said to be critical. 

The Ghazipur police have registered a case and claim to have found “useful” clues. “We have identified the suspects who will be arrested soon,” said Anand Kumar, ADG-Law and Order. The Ghazipur killing comes days after two masked gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead senior RSS leader Ravinder Gosain at his residence in Ludhiana. — TNS