Uttar Pradesh, Nov. 11 -- Bike-borne assailants pumped about 16 bullets into the body of a Muslim man while he was returning home from the Rampur Police Station in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, November 10.

The deceased, Mohammad Sharif, was an accused in the 2008 Rampur Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Group Centre attack case that snatched away lives. Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had claimed responsibility for the strike.

In 2019, a Rampur court sentenced him and three other accused - Sabauddin, Imran Shahzad and Mohammad Farukh - to death. Another accused, Jung Bahadur Khan, was awarded life imprisonment.

In October last year, the Allahabad High Court acquitted Sharif and others. By then, he had already spent 17...