Bijnor: A National
Investigation Agency (NIA) officer was shot 21 times to death in Uttar
Pradesh's Bijnor on Saturday night.
NIA Deputy
Superintendent of Police Mohammed Tanzil, 45, and his wife Farzana were shot
from close range by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle near Sahaspur town.
His wife survived the injury. The couple's children were not hurt in the
attack. His body was brought to his home in Delhi on Sunday evening.
An Assistant Commandant
with the BSF on deputation to the NIA, Ahmed had proceeded on leave on April 1
after completing his job as the liaison officer for the five-member Pakistan
Joint Investigation Team (JIT), that was in Delhi to probe the Pathankot
attack.
Shortly before 1 am,
two men on a motorcycle stopped Ahmed’s Wagon R car near the Sahaspur police
post and opened fire. His wife too sustained serious injuries. She was shot
four times. His teenaged son and daughter were on the rear seats.
Ahmed had been with NIA
since its inception in 2009. “Over the past six years, he was involved in every
big case with the agency,” an NIA officer said. An “excellent intelligence
hand”, Ahmed first joined NIA’s intelligence and operations and later shifted
to its investigations. He was working in the Terror Funding and Fake Currency
Cell.
NIA has begun a
thorough investigation to identify, and capture, the gunmen who killed Tanzil,
their motive and the greater forces at play behind the incident.
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