Cops arrest three in liquor store saleman’s murder case

Gorakhpur: A day after a salesman working at a liquor store in Ramgarh Tal in the city, identified as Manish Prajapati (25), was beaten to death by a group of miscreants for his refusal to give them complimentary booze, the police on Saturday arrested three criminals involved in the incident, while search is on to arrest the rest of the accused, said SSP Gorakhpur Vipin Tada.

Those who have been arrested are identified as Yuvraj Pandey alias Ekansh Pandey, son of Ashok Pandey, Deepu Tiwari, son of Daya Shankar Tiwari, and Abhishek Kashyap, son of Om Prakash Kashyap. All the three arrested are residents of Singhadia in Gorakhpur.

Following the incident which took place on Thursday night, a case was lodged against 14-15 accused under sections 302( murder), 147( punishment for rioting) , 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult) of IPC at Ramgarh Tal police station. The incident happened just three days after a Kanpur realtor was allegedly murdered during a police raid at a hotel which falls under the same police station.

The incident took place when a few men entered into the model wine shop and ordered liquor. An altercation broke out when the miscreants refused to pay and started beating the victim, Manish, as other employees escaped fearing for their lives.

The CCTV footage showed five to six goons knocking down water and beating Manish repeatedly with sticks, and even beating another employee, Raghu, who tried to stop the brawl. On the basis of the footage, the police identified the accused involved. In this case, the name of the brother of Pankaj Rai, former student union president of DAV college, had also surfaced as an accused.