Apple executive killing: Rajnath Singh speaks with UP CM, directs him to conduct proper investigation

In his tweet, Singh said he has directed the UP CM to conduct a proper investigation into the matter.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the death of a multinational executive in Lucknow city will be investigated.

An executive of a multinational company was shot dead by police early on Saturday when he allegedly tried to drive away near a checking-point in Lucknow's upscale Gomtinagar, media reports said.

Thirty-eight-year-old Vivek Tiwari, an employee of Apple, died of his injury at a hospital.

The constable and his colleague have been arrested.

CM Adityanath told reporters: "It was not an encounter. We will investigate the incident."

Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Anand Kumar said that it was a ‘sad incident’.

He said that a case of murder has been lodged under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code against the constable who had shot the victim.

According to police, Tiwari, accompanied by a former colleague, was in the parked sports utility vehicle at around 1.30 am when two policemen on patrol duty came along.

But Tiwari allegedly tried to escape after hitting a police patrol bike and then a wall.

Senior Lucknow police officer Kalanidhi Naithani said the policemen questioned the couple because they felt “there was some suspicious activity”.

The post-mortem report establishes a firearm injury from a bullet on the left side of the chin. The viscera of the victim has been preserved," NDTV quoted  Anand Kumar, Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), as saying.