A senior local BJP leader of Ghaziabad Brijpal Teotia was critically injured when AK-47-wielding assailants attacked his SUV on Rawli Road in Muradnagar in Uttar Pradesh, last evening.
Five others, including four private gunners of Teotia, were also injured and admitted to a hospital in Ghaziabad. According to police, the incident took place in Ravali Road at 7.30 in the evening, while the BJP leader was returning from a function in Muradnagar.
Teotia and his associates were travelling in two Scorpios when another vehicle overtook them. The assailants, who were inside the vehicle, started firing indiscriminately, said Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police K S Emmanuel.
Teotia, who took at least five bullets, was later taken to a private Hospital at Noida. Meanwhile ADG law and order Daljit Chaudhary said that the police has seized one AK-47, two 9 m.m pistols and another rifle from the spot apart from a huge cache of used and live cartridges.
Preliminary investigations suggest some old enmity, he said. Police is investigating all angles, and roped in the Special Task Force to nab the attackers’, said ADG.
Teotia has been a member of the Kisan Morcha of BJP for the past several years. He had unsuccessfully contested the 2012 UP assembly elections on a BJP ticket from Muradnagar constituency.