Ghaziabad: A 22-year-old man was shot dead by youths allegedly over a property dispute in Sahibabad on Friday. Police said the victim lived on a plot near MMX mall on GT Road to take care of it.Police said the plot had been bought in the name of Pinky Chaudhury’s wife. The deceased Ayush Valmiki was a resident of Sanjay Colony in Delhi’s Gokulpuri and a part of Chaudhury’s group.Chaudhury had bought this plot from Nomita Sharma. He said the adjoining area is a green belt but Sharma claims that it belonged to her. There had been a dispute between them over this issue for several months. Police have asked them to present the documents so that they can check the details with GDA.DCP (trans-Hindon zone) Rijul told TOI that Chaudhary’s son Surya was getting some work done on the plot along with some of his associates. At this time, Sharma’s acquaintance Rahul Sahni and some other people reached there and started hurling abuses at Surya and his men. Sahni asked them to stop the work.“Surya told police that Sahni fired a few shots and one bullet hit Ayush in the chest. They caught Sahni and thrashed him after taking away his revolver. Police, who reached the spot, took Ayush to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead,” he said.The DCP said that on the basis of the complaint, an FIR has been registered against Rahul Sahni, Nomita Sharma, Naresh Aroda, Rahul Sharma and other unidentified people under sections 103 (1) (punishment for murder), 191 (2) (rioting), 191 (3) (rioting armed with deadly weapon) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of BNS.“We have detained Sahni, who fired at the victim, and his treatment is underway in the hospital. Teams have been formed to nab the other accused in the case,” he said.
