{"id":325302,"date":"2020-08-11T06:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325302"},"modified":"2020-08-11T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:36:59","slug":"bjp-leader-shot-dead-in-uttar-pradeshs-baghpat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-leader-shot-dead-in-uttar-pradeshs-baghpat\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader shot dead in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Baghpat"},"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-299838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/>Former BJP district president Sanjay Khokhar was shot dead at his farm in Baghpat when he went out for a morning walk on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place in Chaprauli area of Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, three unidentified men opened fire at Khokhar when he was walking in the fields that he owns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police personnel were rushed to the spot where the blood-soaked body of Khokhar was recovered from the fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief at the killing and ordered an investigation in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former BJP district president Sanjay Khokhar was shot dead at his farm in Baghpat when he went out for a morning walk on Tuesday.\u00a0 The incident took place in Chaprauli area of Uttar Pradesh. According to the sources, three unidentified men opened fire at Khokhar when he was walking in the fields that he owns. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[13270,13271,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325302"}],"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=325302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325303,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325302\/revisions\/325303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}