Overview
- Bharat Bhushan Tiwari, 28, was shot during a two-day standoff with Shahpur police and STF and died after being taken for medical treatment on Wednesday.
- Police say Tiwari fired at officers, that personnel returned fire in self-defence, and that a pistol, two live cartridges, a magazine and two spent casings were recovered from the scene.
- Authorities had described Tiwari as mentally unwell and said they were trying to bring him into custody for treatment before the confrontation was escalated by gunfire.
- Tiwari’s family and hundreds of villagers dispute the police account, say he had surrendered, and blocked the Ara-Buxar highway in protest while demanding an impartial investigation.
- Shahabad Range officials suspended the Shahpur SHO, a sub-inspector and a constable and ordered a departmental probe; live social-media video and the post-mortem will be central to the inquiry.