This story is from September 5, 2019

Congress leader’s 25-year-old son shot dead in Amethi district

A 25-year-old MNC executive and son of a Congress leader was killed in Kotwali police station area of Amethi district on Wednesday. Police suspect the attack to be a fallout of an old rivalry between the accused and the victim’s father.
Congress leader’s 25-year-old son shot dead in Amethi district
Neeraj Pandey
LUCKNOW: A 25-year-old MNC executive and son of a Congress leader was killed in Kotwali police station area of Amethi district on Wednesday. Police suspect the attack to be a fallout of an old rivalry between the accused and the victim’s father.
Neeraj Pandey was out on a morning walk when he was accosted by bike-borne assailants barely 500m from his residence and shot six times.
His father Ram Asrey Pandey, who was right behind him on a bicycle, rushed him to the district hospital. From there, Neeraj was referred to Lucknow’s KGMU Trauma Centre where doctors declared him brought dead.
Ram Asrey Pandey was the president of Congress’ district block committee in Gauriganj from 1984 to 2009. He told TOI, “I was just 100m behind my son, on my way to purchase grocery when I saw him being shot in front of my eyes. He sustained bullet injuries on his face, head, stomach and chest.”
“I saw Babban Mishra, Pankaj Mishra and Jitendra along with eight other unidentified aides on five bikes shoot my son. I clearly saw them brandishing guns and firing,” Pandey told TOI from Lucknow. “I informed the police and took my son to the district hospital from where he was referred to KGMU Trauma Centre but doctors there declared him brought dead,” he added.
Amethi SP Khyati Garg told TOI that police have not yet received a formal complaint Pandey is still in Lucknow. “Pandey said he will file a complaint upon returning,” the SP said.
Prima facie, it has come to the fore that Pandey had an old rivalry with the accused. “In 2016, Ram Asrey Pandey was named in an attack on the father of one of the accused,” SP Garg said.
Neeraj’s family said he worked with an MNC in Haryana and had returned home citing health issues.
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