BHADOHI: A court in this Uttar Pradesh district has acquitted 36 individuals, together with 34 police personnel, in a 25-year-old case pertaining to the encounter of 4 individuals.
Further Periods Decide Shailoj Chandra acquitted the 36 individuals on Friday, giving them the profit of doubt.
Further district authorities counsel (ADGC) Vikas Narayan Singh on Sunday mentioned in October 1998, police had claimed that 4 males, together with prison Dhananjay Singh, who was carrying a money reward of Rs 50,000 on data resulting in his arrest, had been shot lifeless whereas they’d gone to a petroleum pump in Saroi to commit dacoity.
Dhananjay Singh is now a pacesetter of the Janata Dal (United).
Late Samajwadi Get together (SP) leaders Amar Singh and Phoolan Devi, former SP chief Ahmed Hasan and SP MLA from Bhadohi Zahid Beg held an agitation over the incident, alleging that the encounter was a faux one.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities subsequently ordered a CB-CID probe, which revealed that the encounter was certainly staged. The CB-CID registered a case towards the 36 individuals, together with the then circle officer Akhilanand Mishra.
All of them had been subsequently granted bail in the case.
The ADGC mentioned the CB-CID probe had revealed that in his tenure because the circle officer in Jaunpur, Mishra had developed a private enmity with a scholar chief who was a lookalike of Dhananjay Singh. After he was transferred to Bhadohi, Mishra introduced this man from Jaunpur and saved him in a flat.
Maintaining his senior officers in the darkness and attributing the operation to a tip-off, Mishra killed 4 individuals, together with the lookalike of Dhananjay Singh, in broad daylight in Saroi, the federal government lawyer mentioned.
In the meantime, Dhananjay Singh surrendered earlier than a court in February 1999, the ADGC mentioned.
He additional knowledgeable that 10 accused police personnel died throughout the trial.
After listening to the arguments of each side, the choose acquitted all the accused in the case on Friday.
Further Periods Decide Shailoj Chandra acquitted the 36 individuals on Friday, giving them the profit of doubt.
Further district authorities counsel (ADGC) Vikas Narayan Singh on Sunday mentioned in October 1998, police had claimed that 4 males, together with prison Dhananjay Singh, who was carrying a money reward of Rs 50,000 on data resulting in his arrest, had been shot lifeless whereas they’d gone to a petroleum pump in Saroi to commit dacoity.
Dhananjay Singh is now a pacesetter of the Janata Dal (United).
Late Samajwadi Get together (SP) leaders Amar Singh and Phoolan Devi, former SP chief Ahmed Hasan and SP MLA from Bhadohi Zahid Beg held an agitation over the incident, alleging that the encounter was a faux one.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities subsequently ordered a CB-CID probe, which revealed that the encounter was certainly staged. The CB-CID registered a case towards the 36 individuals, together with the then circle officer Akhilanand Mishra.
All of them had been subsequently granted bail in the case.
The ADGC mentioned the CB-CID probe had revealed that in his tenure because the circle officer in Jaunpur, Mishra had developed a private enmity with a scholar chief who was a lookalike of Dhananjay Singh. After he was transferred to Bhadohi, Mishra introduced this man from Jaunpur and saved him in a flat.
Maintaining his senior officers in the darkness and attributing the operation to a tip-off, Mishra killed 4 individuals, together with the lookalike of Dhananjay Singh, in broad daylight in Saroi, the federal government lawyer mentioned.
In the meantime, Dhananjay Singh surrendered earlier than a court in February 1999, the ADGC mentioned.
He additional knowledgeable that 10 accused police personnel died throughout the trial.
After listening to the arguments of each side, the choose acquitted all the accused in the case on Friday.