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The car was moving at a normal speed: Witness

Vivek Tiwari murder case: SIT recreates crime scene for further probe

LUCKNOW: Even when he had a bullet inside his body, Apple executive Vivek Tiwari - who was killed in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday - was trying to protect Sana Khan , the only eyewitness to the killing, who was seated next to him in his car.In an exclusive interview to TOI , Sana said: "(with whatever little life was left in him after being shot, he continued to drive the car ahead). He drove until we hit the pole at some distance and he fell back on his seat and his head dropped to one side. He was still breathing then."Debunking the police's theory and certain media reports that the shot was fired at by constable Prashant Chowdhary, while standing on a divider and that their car was stationary, Sana gave vivid details of the night and said, “The car was not stationary, it was moving at a normal speed, not in the center but to a little left of the road and there was no provocation whatsoever from the both of us to the constables for the shot to be fired at sir,” adding “The car was not that damaged as photographs from the day showed it to being. Had there been such a damage to the car, I would have gotten hurt accordingly too.”Reluctant, shaken and apprehensive to speak to the media on Tuesday, it was after an over eight hour wait outside Sana’s rented accommodation in Lucknow, cajoling Sana and her family to put her side of the story out, that she finally agreed to speak to TOI, on Tuesday night.As vivid pictures of the incident kept cropping in front of her for the past three days, Sana said, “(The incident stares right at me even if I close my eyes. I have not slept for the past four days and have not eaten since.)”Maintaining eye contact all through her narration, Sana spoke with courage. She said, “We were returning from a phone launch held at Sri Ram Towers on Ashok Marg and had reached Saryu apartments in Gomti Nagar extension when two constables on a motorbike and in their uniforms came towards the car from up front. It was between midnight and 12:30 am when we had left the event, that I had permission from my family to attend. The car was moving at a normal speed towards a slight left of the road when the motorbike approached us and the constable riding pillion got down.”She continued, “He had a lathi in his hand and they wanted us to stop and get down. Because it was night and we were unsure why we were being asked to stop, Sir being a responsible man who had a woman sitting on his side, kept moving slowly. They were shouting at us and did not ask us for any identity. We did not even speak to them, or protest with them or indulged in a verbal spat.”The very next moment, Sana said, “The other constable Prashant, who was standing in front of the car, immediately took out his pistol and fired at Sir from upfront with the pistol held in both his hands. Blood started oozing out of Sir excessively and we were both aware that a shot has been fired and that has hit him. I was scared and was shouting. I did not know what to do. I was trying to look for where the injury was to stop the blood from coming out, but he kept moving. The constables getting down the motorbike and him being shot, all of this just happened in about a minute.”She continued, “When Sir tried to pull the car away, the front tyre of his car bumped into the front tyre of the motorbike and it fell to the ground. Neither of the cops were seated on it and neither was injured because of that.”After Vivek drove for about half a kilometre, and the car ultimately rammed into a pole on the side of the road, Sana got down the car and started looking out for help, oblivious to the absence of the two constables by now.“I did not have my phone, so I asked a few truck drivers who were standing on the side of the road, for a phone, but they said they did not have one. I continued to run everywhere looking for help. A police patrol vehicle passed through around 10-15 minutes later. They tried calling for an ambulance but since it was taking time, it was decided to take Sir in the police vehicle.”Breathing until then, Sana said even when he was brought to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Combined Hospital, on inquiring from a doctor, she was told that Vivek was alive and was being referred to PGI. “I kept asking police to take me home so that i could use my phone to call up colleagues for help. From the hospital, I was then taken to the Kaiserbagh police station, where after a five minute wait, a lady constable joined in and I was taken to the Gomti Nagar police station.”It was here that her witness account was taken by the police. “I recounted everything to the police official there and a lady constable was writing everything down. I then signed the paper but did not read it, nor asked the police to read it out to me, since all my concentration was if Sir had been referred to the PGI or not. They did not tell me till then that he was dead. I got to know of it, after I went home, took my phone and was taken back to the hospital.”