A legal, Shahbaz, 28, was shot lifeless in a police encounter when he tried to escape from custody after snatching a sub-inspector’s pistol, late on Tuesday night, senior police officers stated right here on Wednesday.
Shahbaz had stabbed a personal faculty professor to loss of life and had injured three of his members of the family while trying dacoity at his home, in the wee hours of Tuesday.
The motion got here after the members of the family and family members of the deceased professor, Alok Gupta, 35, staged a protest by protecting his physique on the highway, demanding stern motion towards these concerned in the dacoity and homicide incident.
Shahjahanpur superintendent of police (SP), Ashok Kumar Meena stated {that a} group of armed assailants barged into the home of Gupta at Bazargher locality of Meeranpur Katra. Within the incident, Gupta was stabbed a number of instances and succumbed through the therapy, while his spouse, Sonam Gupta, brother, Prashant Gupta and father, Sudhir Gupta, have been severely injured.
The SP stated Prashant Gupta, nonetheless, confronted the assailants bravely and nabbed one of many assailants, who was later recognized as Shahbaz, and foiled the dacoity in addition to pressured the opposite assailants to flee from the spot. He stated yet another individual concerned in the crime, Shahroz was later arrested on the knowledge extracted from Shahbaz.
He stated the deceased’s spouse had lodged a FIR of homicide, dacoity and legal home trespass towards eight individuals. He stated two arrested individuals and an area politician Sageer Khan, who allegedly used to give patronage to them, have been named in the FIR and additional investigation is on.
One other police official advised mediapersons that Shahbaz tried to escape from police custody while being taken for medical examination after interrogation. He stated Shahbaz snatched the pistol of sub-inspector Hitesh Tomar and opened fireplace on police personnel. He was gunned down in retaliatory firing.
He stated the interrogation of the 2 accused had earlier revealed that Shahbaz and Shahroz have been additionally concerned in an analogous incident of homicide of former Samajwadi Occasion metropolis president Mohd Sartaj throughout a dacoity at his home round six months in the past.