LUCKNOW: A youth was shot at by his rivals on an old enmity in Chinhat police station area on Saturday night.
The victim Animesh Dwivedi of Gahmar Kunj Colony and his friends Nitin Kumar and Saurabh Nayak were going to a dhaba in the area on Saturday night. Around 12.30 am on Sunday his rivals Ashif Ali and Satyapal, both of Deoria and Anant Singh of Gorakhpur, waylaid him when they were in a service lane near a shopping mall in the area.
“They stopped the bike we were riding and opened fire on me and my friends. I suffered bullet injury in my knee. They were being accompanied by several youths but I could not identify them. They fled the scene while brandishing the weapons and opening fire in the air to intimidate us and the commuters who had started converging to the scene to help us,” he said. He said his friends rushed him to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.
SHO, Chinhat, Alok Rao said that a case of murderous assault against the above named persons was registered on the complaint of the victim.