{"id":303488,"date":"2018-10-01T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303488"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:38:30","slug":"delhi-man-shot-dead-in-taimoor-nagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-man-shot-dead-in-taimoor-nagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Man Shot dead in Taimoor Nagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-man-shot-dead-in-delhis-taimoor-nagar\/taimoor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303489\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303489 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/taimoor-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/taimoor-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/taimoor-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/taimoor-549x420.jpg 549w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/taimoor.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A 34-year-old man on Sunday was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in southeast Delhi&#8217;s Taimoor Nagar, triggering protests in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deceased was identified as\u00a0Rupesh kumar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rupesh was injured in firing by two unknown men, who were passing by his house, Chinmoy Biswal,\u00a0Deputy Commissioner\u00a0of Police (Southeast) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the police are analysing the CCTV camera footage of the incident which took place in a busy area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the footage, Rupesh Kumar was seen in the street when two unknown men walk past him and one of them pumps a bullet in his chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Locals alleged that the culprits were suspected to be linked to drug peddlers. Rupesh&#8217;s family claimed that Rupesh had opposed the sale of drugs in the area and that is why he was attacked, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Locals staged a protest and accused police of being hand in glove with the accused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The killing triggered\u00a0protests in the neighbourhood where locals burnt two motorcycles and pelted stones at the police personnel who were trying to manage the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many policemen were injured and one of them was taken to the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official, the situation has now been brought under control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Investigation is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old man on Sunday was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in southeast Delhi&#8217;s Taimoor Nagar, triggering protests in the area. The deceased was identified as\u00a0Rupesh kumar.\u00a0 Rupesh was injured in firing by two unknown men, who were passing by his house, Chinmoy Biswal,\u00a0Deputy Commissioner\u00a0of Police (Southeast) said. However, the police are analysing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,5314,5315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303493,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303488\/revisions\/303493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}