Court shooting on June 7: Lakshmi convalescing, injured mother unable to hold, feed her
Hindustan TimesNeelam, 25, mother to the one-and-half year-old gunshot victim, Lakshmi, has been waiting in the corridors of the Paediatric ICU of the King George Medical University Trauma Centre for almost a week now, ever since the murder of gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari on the district court premises on June 7. Lakshmi’s mother who was also injured in the shooting Lakshmi and her mother were among the four who also sustained injuries in the shootout. “Lakshmi is recovering, but she keeps getting spells of high fever - her immunity is not high, and she had lost a lot of blood on the way to the hospital which was almost a one-hour journey,” says Lakshmi’s uncle, Ram Bhajan, who works as a driver. Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s close aide Sanjeev Maheshwari alias Jeeva was shot dead allegedly by 26-year-old Vijay Yadav, alias Anand Yadav, inside the Lucknow district court on June 7.