Mumbai police under fire for killing gunman

SPEAKING FOR BIHAR: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar faults Mumbai police for killing Patna man.

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New Delhi: The Central and Bihar governments have reacted sharply against the Mumbai police killing a young man who allegedly fired shots and shouted slogans against Navnirman Seva (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray in a bus in Mumbai on Monday.

Police claim 23-year-old Rahul Raj, a resident of Patna who was visiting Mumbai, was mentally unstable and was gunned down when he refused to surrender or throw away his gun.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is visiting Delhi, condemned the Mumbai police for killing Raj. ''From the TV clippings it seemed that he could easily have been overpowered and arrested by the police instead of shooting him down,'' said Kumar.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and Shyam Rajak, general secretary of the state opposition Rashtriya Janta Dal party, also condemned the police.

The Central government has asked the Maharashtra government to send it a report on the incident, said Union State Home Minister Shri Prakash Jaiswal.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil rejected allegations of police excess. ''We will not allow mad men with guns in hand to have a free run. We will take stern and quick action against them,'' he said.

The dead man’s father alleged in Patna the police had murdered his son in a ''fake encounter''.

''My son was never involved in politics and he didn’t have any grudge against Thackeray,'' said Kundan Kumar, a schoolteacher.

Kumar said Raj had a diploma holder from the Indian Institute of Health Education in Patna and had gone to Mumbai alone for a job. He claimed Raj spoke to him on Sunday and was ''in a perfect frame of mind''.

Raj allegedly shot and injured the conductor of a bus and threatened passengers in the northeast suburb of Kurla.

Sadanand Date, Additional Commissioner of Police, said his officials were forced to shoot down Raj. "We were forced to retaliate. There were several witnesses to incident," said Date, who claimed an unlicensed pistol had been recovered from Raj.