{"id":80740,"date":"2016-02-26T02:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=2302&amp;preview_id=2302"},"modified":"2016-02-26T02:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:08:48","slug":"agra-locality-tense-after-vhp-leader-shot-dead-the-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=80740","title":{"rendered":"Agra locality tense after VHP leader shot dead | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A VISHWA Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader was shot dead by five men in Agra district\u2019s Mantola area Thursday morning, police said. The victim\u2019s brother named five persons \u2014 Shahrukh, Raja, Dilshad, Imtiyaz and Abid \u2014 as accused in the complaint filed at the Mantola police station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit and the VHP\u2019s district vice-president, was returning to his furniture shop after offering prayers at a temple near Meer Hussaini crossing when shooters opened fire at him around 10.30 am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Locals took Mahaur to Sarojini Naidu Medical College where doctors declared him dead on arrival. As news spread, hundreds of VHP, Bajrang Dal and BJP workers, along with some local leaders, gathered outside the hospital shouting slogans and sat on a dharna demanding that the accused be arrested without delay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Later, Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria and BJP MP Chaudhary Babu Lal (Fatehpur Sikri) visited Mahaur\u2019s family. Soon after, the SSP and other top police officials, fearing a communal flare up in the Muslim-dominated area, rushed to the spot and, as a precautionary measure, got the markets in the Nai ki Mandi area closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/vhp-leader-shot-dead-in-agra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agra locality tense after VHP leader shot dead | The Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VISHWA Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader was shot dead by five men in Agra district\u2019s Mantola area Thursday morning, police said. The victim\u2019s brother named five persons \u2014 Shahrukh, Raja, Dilshad, Imtiyaz and Abid \u2014 as accused in the complaint filed at the Mantola police station. Arun Kumar Mahaur, a Dalit and the VHP\u2019s district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}