pahuja.chirag
Par 100 posts (V.I.P)
A news in Times of India 29th dec, 2008
Bangalore: A student fleeing the police after speeding down Old Airport Road was shot dead by Army guards after an hour-long drama, at the Flag Staff House on Trinity Church Road. It was 2 am on Sunday. Faced by a fleeing young man talking hurriedly on a mobile, the shooting comes as a small surprise in today’s cautious world living under the spectre of terror.
A night of revelry ended in tragedy for Mukarram and his friends. Mohammed Mukarram Pasha, 19, firstyear BCom student of Baldwin Methodist’s College, and his friend were riding well over the “normal’’ speed limit, police said. It was 1 am when the Ulsoor traffic night patrol saw him riding ‘wheelie’ — on the back wheel with the front wheel up — and trying to zigzag around the median near ASC Circle. The cops started chasing them. When they tried to flee, their bike skidded near ASC Circle. Mukarram and his friend abandoned the bike and started running.
While his friend managed to flee, Mukarram jumped the fence of ASC Records (South) and started running into the military campus. Later, he climbed the rooftop of Brigadier P S Ravindranath’s residence on Trinity Church Road at 1.10 am.
From the rooftop, Mukarram started making frantic calls to his friends and family. Security guards on night duty were hunting for him but realized that Mukarram was on the roof around 1.50 am, and asked him to come down. When he didn’t heed their call, the security guards fired at him. He suffered injuries and succumbed later. Mukarram makes futile effort to flee, shot
Bangalore: Mukarram had been up on the terrace for close to an hour. The guards at Brigadier Ravindranath’s house were hunting for him over the campus, until they sighted him on the terrace. All they could see was that he was making frantic calls on his mobile. They asked him to come down.
There were six security guards — four guards were guarding the Brigadier’s house and another two from the military campus. They are even said to have warned him several times. Mukarram shimmied down from the roof and tried to flee, when one of the guards shot him with a service weapon at 2.08 am. They fired two rounds (six bullets), of which one bullet hit Mukarram near the abdomen. The Brigadier had informed the police control room about the incident.
According to the police, Mukarram even managed to jump the barricade after the bullet hit him. He had earlier called up his friends to pick him up, and a car was waiting to take him. They rushed him to St Philomena’s Hospital at 2.20 am, where the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.
But at the hospital, there were no exact records of who admitted him, except a phone number. By 2.35 am, police arrived at the hospital, where his family and friends were waiting.
Cops said they would not register a complaint against the guards, as entry into military premises by an outsider is construed an “intrusion”, and they have no authority to act against it.
Brigadier P S Ravindranath, who spoke to the media, said he was sleeping when the incident took place and that he had called up the police control room after the incident.
Do you think that security staff was correct? Do you think he should have been arrested instead of being shot?? Is entering a security personnel's house as an intruder, such a big crime??? Yes it is a crime but is it worth the life of a person??? He was barehanded, still he was shot.. what are your views??
Bangalore: A student fleeing the police after speeding down Old Airport Road was shot dead by Army guards after an hour-long drama, at the Flag Staff House on Trinity Church Road. It was 2 am on Sunday. Faced by a fleeing young man talking hurriedly on a mobile, the shooting comes as a small surprise in today’s cautious world living under the spectre of terror.
A night of revelry ended in tragedy for Mukarram and his friends. Mohammed Mukarram Pasha, 19, firstyear BCom student of Baldwin Methodist’s College, and his friend were riding well over the “normal’’ speed limit, police said. It was 1 am when the Ulsoor traffic night patrol saw him riding ‘wheelie’ — on the back wheel with the front wheel up — and trying to zigzag around the median near ASC Circle. The cops started chasing them. When they tried to flee, their bike skidded near ASC Circle. Mukarram and his friend abandoned the bike and started running.
While his friend managed to flee, Mukarram jumped the fence of ASC Records (South) and started running into the military campus. Later, he climbed the rooftop of Brigadier P S Ravindranath’s residence on Trinity Church Road at 1.10 am.
From the rooftop, Mukarram started making frantic calls to his friends and family. Security guards on night duty were hunting for him but realized that Mukarram was on the roof around 1.50 am, and asked him to come down. When he didn’t heed their call, the security guards fired at him. He suffered injuries and succumbed later. Mukarram makes futile effort to flee, shot
Bangalore: Mukarram had been up on the terrace for close to an hour. The guards at Brigadier Ravindranath’s house were hunting for him over the campus, until they sighted him on the terrace. All they could see was that he was making frantic calls on his mobile. They asked him to come down.
There were six security guards — four guards were guarding the Brigadier’s house and another two from the military campus. They are even said to have warned him several times. Mukarram shimmied down from the roof and tried to flee, when one of the guards shot him with a service weapon at 2.08 am. They fired two rounds (six bullets), of which one bullet hit Mukarram near the abdomen. The Brigadier had informed the police control room about the incident.
According to the police, Mukarram even managed to jump the barricade after the bullet hit him. He had earlier called up his friends to pick him up, and a car was waiting to take him. They rushed him to St Philomena’s Hospital at 2.20 am, where the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.
But at the hospital, there were no exact records of who admitted him, except a phone number. By 2.35 am, police arrived at the hospital, where his family and friends were waiting.
Cops said they would not register a complaint against the guards, as entry into military premises by an outsider is construed an “intrusion”, and they have no authority to act against it.
Brigadier P S Ravindranath, who spoke to the media, said he was sleeping when the incident took place and that he had called up the police control room after the incident.
Do you think that security staff was correct? Do you think he should have been arrested instead of being shot?? Is entering a security personnel's house as an intruder, such a big crime??? Yes it is a crime but is it worth the life of a person??? He was barehanded, still he was shot.. what are your views??