A CCTV captured the chilling attack in which Aasim could be purportedly seen raining blows with the gandasa on Talib.
Aasim confessed during questioning and the farm axe was recovered along with a .315-bore country-made pistol, police added.
MUZAFFARNAGAR: A 26-year-old man from Meerut was struck 17 times with an axe allegedly by his wife’s lover over an “illicit affair” at Muzaffarnagar’s Budhana area on Saturday. Police said Talib with “deep cut wounds all over his body” died at hospital and the attacker Aasim, 25, was held after a brief encounter on Sunday. Seeing the cops, Aasim tried to hide in a cane field and then opened fire at the men in uniform with the intention of fleeing, according to police.
A bullet struck his leg after the police team retaliated in self-defence. He was admitted to a health facility in Budhana. Budhana’s circle officer Gajendra Pal Singh said, “Aasim was absconding, and police learnt on Sunday that he was about to travel from Mandawada towards Luhasana village.