Journalism of Courage
Investigations have revealed that the labour supplier Chinnu Moin Shaikh (38),who was injured in a firing incident at Chinchwad on Saturday,had actually shot at himself and then placed the blame on the company BVG India. The company had allegedly not paid him his dues,amounting to Rs 9 lakh.
Initially,Shaikh had lodged an attempt to murder complaint against an unknown person at the Chinchwad police station. Shaikh,a resident of Magarpatta in Hadapsar,had told the police that he was supplying labourers to the BVG India Limited company in Chinchwad and alleged that the company had not paid his dues between 2007 and 2009. He also told the police that he went to the BVG company office in Chinchwad at around 10.30 am on Saturday as he had got a call from the company on Friday asking him to collect his money. He further told the police that a person wearing an uniform of the BVG company opened fire on him when he he came out of a urinal inside the building.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (zone III) Dnyaneshwar Chavan on Monday said that during the investigation Shaikh confessed to firing on himself. He purchased a revolver and five cartridges from his native place in West Bengal. He used the weapon for firing on himself. He tried to put the blame on BVG, Chavan said.
Police said that Shaikh went to the office of BVG with his two brothers Mohammed (34) and Khairwal (25). But he asked his brothers to wait outside the company premises. He then went inside alone. After sometime,he started shouting loudly for help,after which some security guards,employees of BVG,and his brothers rushed to the spot and shifted him to the YCM hospital for treatment. Doctors removed the bullet from his leg at the hospital.
Police said that Shaikh threw the revolver away after firing. A police team recovered a magazine carrying four live cartridges from the roof of a house adjacent to the building on Saturday,but the revolver is yet to be traced.
