Trader shot dead in car in UP's Mathura, family allege police fired at him

A paneer trader was shot dead in a moving car allegedly by motorcycle-borne assailants near a private medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said on Saturday. The incident happened in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday near KD Medical College under Chhata Kotwali police station area, police said. “The victim, Nazim, was rushed to hospital.

A paneer trader was shot dead in a moving car allegedly by motorcycle-borne assailants near a private medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said on Saturday. The incident happened in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday near KD Medical College under Chhata Kotwali police station area, police said.

“The victim, Nazim, was rushed to hospital. However, doctors declared him brought dead,” police further said. Yet, the deceased man's family members have alleged that the trader was killed by police firing. No family member is yet to submit a complaint, police stated.

In an FIR registered by Circle Officer Jagdish Kaliraman, the victim Nazim was a resident of Haryana's Punhana after midnight on Friday. According to the FIR, police had chased motorcycle-borne assailants who managed to escape.

Police have detained a person, who was travelling with the now deceased man. The victim was taking paneer (cottage cheese) from Punhana to Agra as the family trade is to supply ghee/paneer in different areas of the region, his brother Khadim said.

The guilty will not be spared, whether it is the police or miscreants, SP (Rural) Shrish Chandra assured the family members of Nazim..