Sunday, January 4, 2009

Torture Killing: MLA Owns up


Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday said that Shekhar Tiwari, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA arrested in connection with the killing of a senior Public Works Department (PWD) engineer, has confessed to his crime. A senior Police official added that Tiwari’s wife was also being questioned.

Reports attributing the information to Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Law & Order, Crime and Special Task Force (STF) Brij Lal said Tiwari’s wife was being questioned in connection with the brutal killing.

The MLA was arrested from the Rania area of Akbarpur police station of Kanpur Dehat district for his role in the murder of Executive Engineer MK Gupta, who was brutally thrashed to death allegedly by the MLA and two of his supporters after he refused to part with a "huge sum" the MLA demanded as donation.

The autopsy report confirmed that Gupta was subjected to electric shocks and brutally beaten up before dying of brain haemorrhage.

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