Apple executive shot dead by police in Lucknow

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.

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.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said  it was not an encounter and an investigation would be conducted. Adityanath also said that if needed, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry would be ordered to investigate the incident.

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.