{"id":14476,"date":"2020-08-12T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14476"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:33:36","slug":"two-held-for-up-bjp-leaders-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14476","title":{"rendered":"Two held for UP BJP leader&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><picture class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image sp-no-webp\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder.webp 400w,https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder-1200x705.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder-1200x705.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image sp-no-webp\" alt=\"Two held for UP BJP leader's murder\" height=\"235\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder-1200x705.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 12 : Two persons have been arrested for the murder of former BJP district president Sanjay Khokhar who was shot dead on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Khokhar had gone for a morning walk in the Chhaprauli area in Baghpat when he was shot dead by unidentified men on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had given the district police 24 hours to arrest the accused.<\/p>\n<p>Director General of Police (DGP) H. C. Awasthi told reporters, \u201cAn FIR has been registered in the case. Those who have been named in this FIR were also involved in a case in 2020 and had attacked the deceased due to personal enmity. Two people have been taken into custody. We are looking for the rest of the accused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DGP said that the Inspector of Chhaprauli has been suspended after the incident because he could have intervened in the personal dispute and prevented the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Baghpat police chief Ajay Kumar said the victim suffered two bullet injuries on his head and chest. He said that the victim was shot from a close range.<\/p>\n<p><small>Disclaimer: This story is auto-generated from IANS service.<\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"google_news_bar\"> Subscribe us on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMNfwhQsw6qSDAw?oc=3&amp;ceid=IN:en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Google News\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/two-held-for-up-bjp-leaders-murder-1945375\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 12 : Two persons have been arrested for the murder of former BJP district president Sanjay Khokhar who was shot dead on Tuesday morning. Sanjay Khokhar had gone for a morning walk in the Chhaprauli area in Baghpat when he was shot dead by unidentified men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Two-held-for-UP-BJP-leaders-murder.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}