An RTI activist, known for his opposition to various illegal activities in Juhapura area of Ahmedabad, was hacked to death early Saturday morning
An RTI activist, known for his opposition to various illegal activities in Juhapura area of Ahmedabad, was hacked to death early Saturday morning. Nadeem Saiyed, 38, who was also an eyewitness in the Naroda Patia riots case, was stabbed 25 times with a butcher’s knife and axes.
The spot where he was killed is barely 100 meters from the Juhapura police station but the police say they had no inkling of the attack.
Sources say around 200 people had gathered when Saiyed was attacked but no one came forward to help him. Saiyed is believed to have fallen victim to people involved in cow slaughter and other illegal activities.
On Saturday morning, Saiyed left his house at Anwar society around 7:30. This was his daily routine. He used to have tea and browse through newspapers at a vendor’s shop close to his house. The police said that, on Saturday, too, he was following his daily routine when four or five people suddenly appeared and stabbed him with axes and a butcher’s knife.
Saiyed was rushed to VS hospital, but was declared ‘brought dead’ by the doctors there.
As Saiyed was a witness of the Naroda Patiya riots — 95 people were killed in the communal violence on February 28, 2002 — he was given special police protection. However, the policemen deployed for his protection were not escorting him at the time of the incident.
The gruesome murder has once again sparked off a controversy about policing in the state. Saiyed was also suspected of being a police informer. He is believed to have informed senior police officers that the people who were arrested following a recent incident in which a police vehicle was torched while trying to rescue cows brought for slaughter in Juhapura, were not the real culprits.
Sources in the police claimed that Saiyed had also passed information to senior police officials that the real offender in the cow slaughter case was Md Sharif aka Kalu Gardan (Kalu the neck), a dreaded criminal of Juhapura. The sources said that someone in the police had leaked this information to Gardan who, incidentally, has acquired this nickname allegedly because he cuts of the necks of his victims.
The sources said that because of Saiyed’s past of exposing criminals, the real motive behind the murder could be of eliminating him from Juhapura for good.
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