By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter,
Mumbai: Khalid Azmi,33, a younger brother of slain advocate Shahid Azmi has received a direct threat of being killed in a similar manner as like his brother.
The incident took place late on Tuesday night just outside the Kurla police station when three unidentified men approached Khalid, threatened him and ran away.
Kurla police has registered non cognizable (NC) complaint in the matter with section of criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code.
One of the officers attached with the Kurla police confirmed the incident to media and said, “There are no CCTV cameras to have recorded the threat, we are further verifying the complaint.”
Khalid Azmi, a younger brother of murdered Advocate Shahid Azmi
Shahid Azmi, a well known Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind lawyer who used to defend terror accused was gunned down in February 2010 outside his office in Kurla.
Speaking with TwoCircles.net Khalid told, “I was waiting outside the police station to meet an acquaintance when a well built person came and threatened me of meeting my brother’s fate.
There were two more persons standing behind him. All three ran away after issuing the threat”.
“Jaise tere bhai ko mara tha aur woh kuch ukhad nahi saka ussi tarah tere ko bhi marenge,” Khalid claims the front man amongst three told him. He said the person who spoke to him was dark in complexion and was well built.
“Despite this criminal intimidation”, Khalid told, “Police declined to register FIR and only recorded 4 lines of NC. I could not sleep whole night due to the unexpected event but police took it very lightly”.
On asking if he has written to police commisioner and asked for security, he told, “I was shocked after the incidence and immediately approached police station. After filing complaint there I asked my friends to phone some higher authorities and media”.
“Now that couple of days have passed and no moves have been taken by police, I will write to commissioner and will seek security”, he added.
Khalid is also an advocate who started practice after murder of his brother in 2010. Initially he assisted Jamiat lawyers in terror cases but later on parted ways and started his individual practice at session court.