A 20-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj attacked a bus conductor with a cleaver after a dispute over ticket fare, the police stated on Friday. The accused confessed to his crime in a purported video, during which he alleged that he attacked the conductor for “insulting Prophet Muhammad”.
The accused additionally tried to flee the police however was caught in an encounter after being shot within the leg.
In line with the Prayagraj Police, the incident passed off on Friday morning when the accused, recognized as Lareb Hashmi (20), indulged in a dispute with the bus conductor, Harikesh Vishwakarma (24), over ticket worth.
Hashmi, who’s a first-year engineering pupil, attacked Vishwakarma with a cleaver, during which the latter sustained grievous accidents on his neck and different physique elements.
Hashmi then jumped out of the bus and entered a university campus to cover.
Inside the faculty, Hashmi allegedly made a video and uploaded it on social media. Within the purported video, Hashmi is seen confessing to the crime and accusing the bus conductor of indulging in blasphemy and “insulting Prophet Muhammad”.
He’s seen brandishing the cleaver within the video with which he hacked the conductor.
The accused can also be heard taking the names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath within the video.
One other video, taken from contained in the bus, reveals Hashmi working outdoors with the cleaver in hand.
Later, recounting the incident, the driving force of the bus, Mangla Yadav, stated, “Suddenly, there was an attack inside the bus. I heard a sound and then stopped the bus.”
Yadav stated they rushed Vishwakarma to a hospital for medical remedy.
ARRESTED IN ENCOUNTER
After the incident, the Prayagraj Police caught Hashmi from inside the faculty the place he was hiding.
Later, when a police crew took him to recuperate the weapon used within the crime, he allegedly fired on the cops.
Nonetheless, within the police’s retaliatory fireplace, he sustained a bullet harm to his leg and was arrested. He’s admitted to a hospital for the remedy of the bullet harm.
Abhinav Tyagi, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Prayagraj’s Yamunanagar space, stated, “Following the incident, the accused was arrested by the police and a case under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code was registered. Further investigation is underway.”
Sharing the main points of the accused, the DCP stated that Hashmi is a first-year pupil within the metropolis’s United Engineering Faculty and lives within the Hajiganj space of Prayagraj.
His father, Mohammed Yunus, runs a poultry farm within the metropolis.
(With Inputs from Anand Raj in Prayagraj)