Updated On: 04 September, 2024 09:26 AM IST | Faridabad | Agencies
Five arrested after they chase boy for 30 km and open fire on his car

The car student was driving was vandalised
A Std XII student was allegedly chased in a car and shot dead here on August 23 by a group of five cow vigilantes who mistook the boy for a cattle smuggler, the police said on Tuesday. All the five accused—Saurabh, Anil Kaushik, Varun, Krishna and Adesh—have been arrested, the police said.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that on the night of August 23, they had received information that some suspected cattle smugglers driving two SUVs were doing recce in the city. They mistook the victim, Aryan Mishra, and his friends, Shanky and Harshit, for cattle smugglers and followed their car for about 30 kilometres near the Gadhpuri toll on the Delhi-Agra National Highway, a senior police officer said.