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January 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Anuj Bidve’s father critcises police after finding out about his son’s death via Facebook
- Five people arrested in connection with the apparently motiveless attack
By
Emily Allen
Last updated at 8:03 PM on 1st January 2012
A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead on Boxing Day.
Mr Bidve, 23, was shot at close range by a gunman in an apparently motiveless attack in the Ordsall district of Salford, Greater Manchester.
Tonight Greater Manchester Police said Kiaran Mark Stapleton, from Ordsall, had been charged with murder.
Horrific: Anuj Bidve, 23, was shot at close range in the Ordsall district of Salford, Greater Manchester on Boxing Day
The announcement came as two officers from Greater Manchester Police flew out to India to meet Mr Bidve’s family.
His father, Subhash Bidve, has been critical of the way the British and Indian authorities have handled the case. He found out about his son’s death on Facebook at home in Pune, India, before police in the UK could contact him.
A total of five people have been arrested by police hunting the killer.
Yesterday a 19-year-old man was bailed until the end of March.
Three others, a 16-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys, were also released on bail pending further inquiries.
Murder: Police in Salford at the scene of the crime. Mr Bidve’s father
has been critical of the way the British and Indian authorities have handled the case
Senior officers described the murder of Mr Bidve as ‘horrific’ and a £50,000 reward was put up by police to help catch the killer.
The victim was in a group of nine male and female Indian students visiting Manchester for a short break over Christmas.
He was murdered around 1.30am on Boxing Day as they walked from their hotel through the inner-city Ordsall district, heading for Manchester city centre.
The gunman was thought to have walked across the road and allegedly engaged the victim in a short conversation before shooting him at close range in the side of the head. Mr Bidve died in hospital a short time later.
Police say they are treating the murder as a ‘hate crime’ which may have been racially motivated.
According to a Facebook page set up in Mr Bidve’s memory, he ‘was killed for not answering a simple question – ‘What’s the time?”
Sad: Flowers are left at the scene where Anuj Bidve was shot in Salford, Greater Manchester
Police have not yet disclosed what was said between the killer and his victim.
Mr Bidve was studying for a micro-electronics postgraduate qualification at Lancaster University and was described by tutors as ‘an outstanding applicant at the very beginning of a promising career’.
Described as ‘clever and sporty’, he arrived in the UK in September after completing an electronics degree at Pune University.
Throughout the week, locals left tributes to Mr Bidve at the scene in Ordsall, an area known for high crime levels.
The
killing has disgusted members of the community in the tough inner-city
suburb, which has found itself the subject of worldwide condemnation on
news and social networking sites.
A
note addressed to Mr Bidve and attached to a small bouquet of flowers
said: ‘Evil and mindless people took your life away for nothing.
‘We
are local residents who are so saddened and sickened at this senseless
act. We don’t think living here will ever be the same.’
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