{Vicky Middukhera homicide}
On August 7, 2021, Vicky Middukhera was about to take a seat in his SUV after visiting the workplace of a property supplier in Sector 71, Mohali, round 10.30 am, when two sharpshooters chased him and fired a number of photographs at him, killing him on the spot. (HT)
Two months after a Mohali court docket acquitted three gangsters within the 2021 Vicky Middukhera homicide case, his brother has challenged the order within the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket.
Whereas convicting three sharpshooters—Anil Kumar, alias Latth; Ajay Kumar, alias Lefty; and Sajjan Singh, alias Bhola—all members of the Kaushal-Bambiha gang, the court docket in January had acquitted gangsters Bhupinder Singh, alias Bhuppi Rana, Amit Dagar and Kaushal Chaudhary, who have been accused of conspiring the homicide, attributable to lack of direct proof.
Subsequently, the three convicts have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
On August 7, 2021, Middukhera, a Youth Akali Dal chief, was about to take a seat in his SUV after visiting the workplace of a property supplier in Sector 71 round 10.30 am, when Anil and Ajay chased him and fired a number of photographs at him.
Middukhera had ran for his life for about 500 metres amid raining bullets and had even managed to scale the wall of the Sector 71 neighborhood centre for canopy, however couldn’t survive. He used to hold a licensed pistol in his automobile, however didn’t get an opportunity to seize it. He had sustained 12 bullet accidents and died on the spot.
The plea by the sufferer’s brother, Ajaypal Singh Middukhera, a Shiromani Akali Dal chief, says, “The learned trial judge has erred gravely in returning a finding of acquittal regarding the three conspirators available to face trial on sketchy grounds and failed to consider the fact that there was no motive for the three attackers to attack the deceased, and it was only on behalf of these conspirators that they were acting.”
The plea provides that these are “dangerous times” when gang wars and gang assaults have turn out to be extra frequent, and it’s no thriller how the accused in these circumstances run their gangs whereas being incarcerated in jail with impunity.
“It would also be a moot question for this court to ponder over whether these accused are professional criminals and the evidence with regard to their involvement is often hard to find, as it has come in the evidence that the three respondents used to communicate with their people regarding the hiring of assassins by sending messages through people who were going out of jail or through other means, which are otherwise untraceable,” the plea says.
In view of this, with a purpose to impart justice, an revolutionary methodology needed to be adopted in circumstances of gang-related crimes the place proof was arduous to gather, whether or not for the lethargy of the investigating company or the complicity attributable to their lack of coaching, it has been contended. The plea has but to be taken up by the excessive court docket.