NGO official shot at, cops get personal rivalry whiff

A human resource manager with an international NGO was shot at and his family members held hostage on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway on late Sunday night. The incident took place around 10.30 pm when they were returning home in Greater Noida after dinner in Nehru Place, South-east Delhi.

According to police, the victim Yadu Nishant Nair lives along with family in Greater Noida’s Jalvayu Vihar. The assailants shot at Nair in the right thigh. He is now undergoing treatment at Yatharth hospital in Sector 110, Noida. Station House Officer of Kasna Anil Pratap Singh dismissed the allegation of robbery and indicated personal rivalry.

He said that according to Yadu’s wife Madhushree, two assailants in a green Maruti SX4 car overpowered them when they were about to exit the Expressway to reach home. They applied brakes and honked to stop them. Police said two armed men came out from the car and asked Nair to roll down the window but when he denied, the assailants broke the window with the pistol butt. They dragged him outside, assaulted him and abused the family. 

The SHO said: “The victim’s family was pleading them to take the jewellery and diamond sets and let them go. But the robbers denied to take anything and shot at her husband’s thigh.” Nair was profusely bleeding on the road and a couple on a scooty guided the Nairs to Yatharth hospital.