Click to play videoMumbai: The Mumbai Police says it was forced to kill Rahul Raj, who opened fire in a Mumbai bus on Monday, but Bihar politicians remain unconvinced.
Raj, a resident of Patna who was visiting Mumbai, man was gunned down after he allegedly shot and injured a person and shouted slogans against Maharashtra Navnirman Seva (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray.
Police claim they asked Raj, 23, to surrender or throw away his pistol but he refused. “I do not understand how you can blame the police here. What if he had killed some people? And if he happened to have killed a Marathi, it would have caused further riots in the city,” said Julio Rebeiro, former police commissioner of Mumbai
Human rights activist Teesta Setalwad, a severe critic of the Gujarat government and police for their role in the 2002 riots, said the Mumbai police must not be blamed. "At that moment, in a crowded area with a man wielding a gun, you do not know what could have happened. So I would not out and out blame the police," she said.
Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray and other Maharashtra leaders justified the shooting.
Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, however, is convinced that the Mumbai police used extreme methods. “I consider the Mumbai Police’s actions as a brutal murder,” he said.
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