KANPUR: A 35-year-old Kanpur mechanic who had stopped a group of allegedly drunk men from relieving themselves in front of his employer’s shop on Friday night was thrashed and then crushed under the wheels of the car in which they were travelling.
Victim Ashraf, a resident of Fahimabad colony in the city’s Chamanganj neighbourhood, was inside the battery shop in Naubasta around 11.30pm when he spotted two to three men alighting from a parked Hyundai Creta inside which they had been allegedly drinking, the police said.
On being threatened by the men for trying to stop them from urinating right in front of the stop, Ashraf apparently called his employer Anurag Kapoor while an unidentified witness alerted the police.
By the time a police team arrived at the Kanpur Development Authority market near the Yashoda Nagar bypass, the mechanic had been run over by the black Creta.
Kappor reached soon after and learnt that the police team had taken Ashraf to Lala Lajpat Rai hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
A senior police officer said investigators were scanning CCTV footage to trace the route taken by the suspects.
“Our probe so far has zeroed in on a man named Imran, who is the one who picked up a fight with Ashraf.
There were two others with him, one of whom has been identified as Ramji,” said additional deputy commissioner of police (Kanpur South) Basant Lal.
The accused have been booked for murder.