Gorakhpur: Kashif Jameel brother of doctor Kafeel khan who was jailed last year in connection with child deaths in Uttar Pradesh was shot yesterday around 11 pm on Sunday.
Kashif is a businessman who was reportedly shot three bullets by unknown miscreants yesterday night. The miscreants fled the scene on their bikes after shooting Kashif.
Dr. Kafeel who is now out on bail, took to Twitter this morning and said, “Allah rahem kare. M not going to bend.”
Though parties political pressure is on Dr Kafeel, he says he is going to hold the ground strong under such crisis.
He told the reporters that the three bullets fired at his brother have now been removed.
He added, “the operation has been successful. He is currently in ICU. Three bullets were shot at him in order to kill him. Who has fired, we do not know. But it was 500 metres from Gorakhnath Temple, where the UP Chief Minister was staying.”
One of the three bullets fired at Kashif to kill him was shot at his neck which required immediate surgery but Kashif was being shuttled from government-run hospital’s private hospital. The surgery took nearly three hours to complete.
“Yesterday night I was insisting on a private hospital because I know a prominent neurosurgeon there. But the police kept saying that I must go to the Sadar hospital first and then to the BRD hospital. But it is the doctors at the BRD hospital who sent him back to this private hospital. So crucial time was wasted yesterday night,” Dr Khan said.
However, the Police maintain no motive was found behind the shooting of Dr Khan’s brother.
Gujrat lawmaker Jidnesh Mevani took to Twitter to speak about the party’s inefficiency in the state. He tweeted, “Dr Kafeel saved children when Yogi Adityanath government had no money to pay for oxygen. He was put behind bars. Now his brother is shot at. Thank you so much Modi ji for what your ‘acche din’ are offering us – hate speeches, violence, bloodshed and bullets.”
As many as 60 children were killed last year due to disruption of oxygen supply in BRD hospital but the BJP led Yogi government denied their was no shortage of oxygen.
Dr. Kafeel khan who arranged oxygen cylinders from a private hospital was put behind the bars for eight long months.
He got out on bail on April 25, after the court ruled there is no direct evidence of negligence on his part.