{"id":319612,"date":"2020-02-02T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T07:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319612"},"modified":"2020-02-02T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T07:47:12","slug":"uttar-pradesh-vishwa-hindu-mahasabha-leader-shot-dead-in-lucknow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uttar-pradesh-vishwa-hindu-mahasabha-leader-shot-dead-in-lucknow\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh: Vishwa Hindu Mahasabha leader shot dead in Lucknow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bachchan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/bachchan1.jpg 636w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/bachchan1-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/bachchan1-469x420.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>A Vishwa\u00a0Hindu Mahasabha\u00a0leader was shot dead on Sunday morning while he was out on a morning walk in Lucknow&#8217;s Hazratganj area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police official said, Ranjeet Bachchan was killed in an area which falls under the jurisdiction of the Hazratganj police station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bachchan a resident of Gorakhpur, was on a morning walk when bike-borne assailants opened fire on him and killed him on the spot. He received multiple bullet injuries in the head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bachchan&#8217;s brother, who was with him at the time of the incident, also received bullet injuries and has been admitted to a hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the second killing of a Hindu leader in the state capital in the past four months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kamlesh Tiwari, president of the Hindu Samaj Party, was shot dead in his office in October last year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vishwa\u00a0Hindu Mahasabha\u00a0leader was shot dead on Sunday morning while he was out on a morning walk in Lucknow&#8217;s Hazratganj area. Police official said, Ranjeet Bachchan was killed in an area which falls under the jurisdiction of the Hazratganj police station. Bachchan a resident of Gorakhpur, was on a morning walk when bike-borne assailants opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[12531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319612"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319616,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319612\/revisions\/319616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}