Lucknow, Sept 29: An Uttar Pradesh policeman on patrol duty allegedly shot dead Vivek Tiwari, an assistant sales manager for tech giant Apple, who allegedly tried to drive his car over a police motorcycle when the cops tried to stop him on Friday night.
Retaliating to this, one of the policemen, Prashant Chaudhary, opened fire and the bullet went through the car windshield to hit the Apple employee. Though the injured was immediately rushed to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Gomti Nagar area, he succumbed to his injuries.
The incident happened at around 1.30 a.m., when Tiwari was heading home after the launch of iPhone X plus along with Sana Khan, his colleague. She said after they were fired at, Tiwari got scared and hit the car against a pillar of an underpass and sustained more injuries.
The autopsy revealed on Saturday that the bullet hit Tiwari’s chin and got stuck between the neck and the head, leading to his death due to profuse bleeding.
Constable Prashant Kumar who fired at the car, and his colleague Sandeep Kumar, were arrested after police registered an FIR on victim’s ex-colleague Sana Khan’s complaint, who was in the car with Vivek when the incident took place.
“The constable (Prashant) fired in self-defence believing that some criminals were inside the car as the victim tried to flee after hitting the patrol bike,” senior superintendent of police Kalanidhi Naithani said.
A post-mortem is being conducted to know whether Tiwari died of bullet injury or injuries sustained after his vehicle hit the pillar, the official said.
Tiwari’s wife Kalpana has accused the police of being “trigger-happy”. “The police had no right to shoot my husband,” said the wife of the victim, adding that she demands Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to meet her.
She told reporters that she along with her two daughters Shibi and Sonu were informed of “an accident” and that her husband had been taken to the Lohia hospital.
“When we reached there we were told Vivek had died due to excessive bleeding,” she told the media, adding the bullet angle was not even revealed to the family.
The couple had spoken on the phone minutes before the accident.
With the inputs of IANS.
