A 60-year-old E-rickshaw driver, Mohammad Rizwan, was killed within the Madeyganj space of Lucknow on December 30, 2024.
E-rickshaw driver Mohammad Rizwan (Sourced)
The autopsy examination report stated that extreme bleeding because of a head harm brought on loss of life – with out commenting on the doable weapon used.
In the meantime, members of the family obtained maintain of a CCTV footage from a Madeyganj store and handed it over to the cops on December 31. After sitting on it for 5 days, the police launched an investigation, arrested three people, floated a motive idea and produced the alleged weapon used – a country-made firearm – earlier than the town’s mediapersons on January 12.
The footage reveals one of many killers standing and Rizwan sitting in his e-rickshaw and it seems the 2 are speaking. After a number of moments the killer strikes, sits on his bike and drives off, whilst Rizwan slumps to the bottom.
However, the autopsy examination report solely famous ‘excessive bleeding due to a head injury’. The household of the deceased says that this incongruency within the report might simply present a loophole to the killers.
Among the many individuals arrested by the police are two contract killers and the person who hatched the homicide conspiracy. Nevertheless, the autopsy examination report stays some extent of query with the police now re-looking into the case to verify different potential angles.
Further deputy commissioner of police (central zone) Manisha Singh stated, “Yes, the post-mortem examination report suggested death due to excessive bleeding due to a head injury, but the details about the kind of weapon was not established. Now, the body will be exhumed to conduct another post-mortem examination and further legal proceedings for it are underway.”
Relations of the 60-year-old have raised questions over autopsy examination report findings which don’t point out a bullet wound, which might correlate the police declare that the contract killers murdered Rizwan by taking pictures him, presumably in a case of mistaken id.
Mahfooz Khan, a nephew of the deceased stated, “The post-mortem examination report has no mention of a bullet wound, and it only talks about death due to a head injury. The report is questionable, and it should be investigated.”
Rizwan’s son, Ayan, the complainant within the FIR stated, “The family is satisfied with the police investigation, but we doubt the post-mortem examination report. Imagine if the CCTV was not there where my father was killed, the case would have been something else going by the post-mortem examination report.”
“After my uncle’s death, we somehow got the CCTV footage from a nearby shop and filed a murder complaint with the police,” stated Mahfooz, echoing Ayan’s sentiments on the uncertain nature of the autopsy examination report.
WHAT HAPPENED (Police model)
In line with the police idea, which they made public throughout a press convention, in an try to rekindle a previous love, a lawyer recognized as Para resident Aftab Ahmed, 37, plotted to kill the daddy of his former girlfriend and junior colleague, Irfan Ali, 60. He allegedly employed Mohammad Yasir, 35, promising him ₹2 lakh in change for the job. Yasir, in flip, recruited Krishnakant alias Sajan, 36 to help within the operation. The duo performed a reconnaissance of the lady’s father’s home on December 29, 2024, however on the evening of December 30, they mistakenly focused Rizwan, who resembled the meant sufferer, Irfan Ali. Rizwan was killed allegedly utilizing a firearm which the police claimed to have seized after the arrest of the three accused.
How police stated the case unfolded
Rizwan, a resident of Bhikampur, Mahanagar, was merely doing his job on the day of the homicide, taking a passenger to Madeyganj when the attackers ambushed him.
The breakthrough got here when investigators linked the homicide to a love affair gone bitter. Aftab Ahmed, a lawyer, had been romantically concerned with a junior colleague, stated police.
After the lady married another person in Delhi, Aftab sought to reignite their relationship by eliminating her father, who lived alone in Lucknow. Aftab believed that by killing the daddy, his former lover would return to Lucknow and their relationship would resume.
In the meantime, after the homicide, the killers demanded their cost from Aftab, however the lawyer, realising the error, refused to pay, claiming that the precise goal was nonetheless alive, revealed police. This led to a dispute between the conspirators, which ultimately unravelled the plot.
What the CCTV footage reveals
The CCTV footage shared by the household with the police turned out to be the turning level within the case after which, aided by in depth surveillance and scanning of over 200 CCTV cameras, the police tracked down the killers. On Sunday, Aftab, Yasir, and Krishnakant had been arrested.
The over three-minute-long footage reveals Rizwan sitting in his auto and speaking to the killer wherein their faces are usually not seen. A couple of moments later, the person is seen leaving on his bike after the assault (not clear what weapon he used) and proper after which Rizwan is seen falling from the auto.