This story is from October 20, 2020

Gunshots halt traffic on Vadodara-Ahmedabad highway

Disappearance of an Uttar Pradesh labourer couple and their subsequent tracing led to violent clashes between two groups, bringing traffic near Dumad crossroads on Vadodara-Ahmedabad highway to a screeching halt for nearly an hour, on Monday.
Gunshots halt traffic on Vadodara-Ahmedabad highway
Traffic near Dumad crossroads on highway came to a halt on Monday. (R) An injured receiving treatment in a hospital
VADODARA: Disappearance of an Uttar Pradesh labourer couple and their subsequent tracing led to violent clashes between two groups, bringing traffic near Dumad crossroads on Vadodara-Ahmedabad highway to a screeching halt for nearly an hour, on Monday.
Gunshots rented the air after the brick kiln owner, who had called the couple to work in his unit, fired 6-7 rounds from his licensed revolver after he and others came under attack from a group of rickshaw drivers.
The fight erupted when the kiln owner Ayub Ali Pathan’s employee spotted the husband-wife duo and stopped them from boarding a rickshaw.
One person from the rickshaw drivers’ group suffered bullet injury on the hand while a bullet grazed another’s head. Three friends of Pathan also suffered injuries after being thrashed with sticks.
The couple had disappeared from the site on Sunday afternoon. While Pathan was looking for them, one of his employees, Jetram spotted them under the Dumad bridge on Monday afternoon and immediately informed Pathan. Pathan asked him to stop the couple till he arrived there.
“Meanwhile, the couple was talking with a rickshaw driver and wanted to travel out of the city. Jetram tried to stop the couple but the driver thought that he may lose his fare. So he got into arguments with Jetram,” said B B Rathod, assistant commissioner of police (ACP) H-division.
Jetram again called up Pathan and informed him about his scuffle with the auto driver. Within a few minutes Pathan reached there with his six friends and got into heated arguments with the auto drivers present at the spot.

The verbal duel escalated as the group of around 10-12 auto drivers started thrashing Pathan with sticks. Pathan pulled out his licensed revolver and opened fire.
A person named Vaju Jograna got hit on his hand while a bullet grazed through the head of Devashi Bharwad.
Pathan’s three friends - Ajmal Pathan, Altaf Pathan and Gujaran Khan Pathan - suffered injuries as they were beaten up with sticks.
“It was a trivial issue over one person unwilling to let go of passenger fare and another convincing his workers to stay back. We are in the process of filing FIR,” Rathod told TOI.
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