Man Gets Throat Cancer, Shoots The Friend Who Taught Him How To Smoke

Most people have been introduced to smoking by their friends and succumbing to this peer pressure to become a regular smoker is almost every smoker’s story. Keeping this in mind, if we fall a victim to a life-threatening disease, like cancer, because of this habit, will we lay blame on the friend who introduced it to us?

25-year-old Mustakeem Ahmed undeniably thought so, when he killed his colleague for introducing him to smoking which later became the cause of him contracting throat cancer.

The incident took place in Uttam Nagar in southwest Delhi, where Mustakeem Ahmed shot his colleague Anaytullah, in the restaurant in which both of them worked as cooks.

Although, the restaurant was owned by Ahmed’s brother-in-law, Anaytullah was favoured over Ahmed. This filled Ahmed with jealousy who took to smoking and marijuana, allegedly under the influence of Anaytullah.

 

He later developed a throat infection and claimed that a doctor told him that he had throat cancer. Ahmed blamed Anaytullah for his ailment. Amid all this, he lost his job due to his incompetence, soon after and left for his village in UP.

Ahmed confessed to his interrogators that he was so consumed by hate that he purchased a countrymade pistol and practised shooting so that he wouldn’t miss his mark.

 

He returned to Delhi to get Anaytullah fired from his job and when he failed to do so, he opened fire on the victim, who later succumbed to his injuries. Ahmed absconded after the incident.

The police, however, received a tip on Friday that he was supposed to return to Uttam Nagar to borrow money from a friend. A trap was laid and the accused was nabbed.

All of us have fallen victim to peer pressure, but we are responsible for our own actions as well as the consequences of those actions. Committing a crime to evade responsibility is not justified.

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