Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav honoured widows of police martyrs including Parveen Azad, wife of deputy SP Zia-ul-Haq, who was lynched by a mob in Hathigawa area of Kunda in Pratapgarh earlier this year. He gave a shawl and Rs 25,000 in cash to each widow here at Reserve Police lines on occasion of Police Commemoration Day on Monday morning.It may be mentioned here that killing of Haq also brought controversy for Akhilesh Yadav’s government and one of his cabinet minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiya had to step down as allegations were made on him that he orchestrated the killing of the officers.
However later Raja Bhaiya came clean out of the charges in probe conducted by sleuths of Central Bureau of Investigation and he was recently reinducted back into the cabinet and also awarded the same portfolio.While honoring Parveen Azad during police commemoration day here on Monday, the Department remembers courage shown by her husband Zia-ul-Haq soon after he received the message of firing in Hathigawa locality of Balipur of Pratapgarh on the evening of March 2 earlier this year. Haq, who was than posted as Dy SP in Pratapgarh was tipped off that criminals killed gram pradhan of Balipur, Nanhe Yadav and in retaliation, pradhan’s supporters attacked the houses of accused and torched them.
later as Haq reached the spot, agitated crowd also attacked the police party but he fought to bring peace in the area even when his colleagues escaped to save their lives. later Haq was killed as the mob reportedly opened fire on him. It may be mentioned that besides honouring Parveen Azad on Monday, Akhilesh Yadav already gave her and Haq’s family huge money as compensation amount besides giving jobs to two members which included officer’s widow also.
Akhilesh Yadav also honoured the widow of sub-inspector Rajendra Prasad Dwivedi who lost his life while trying to intercept hardened criminals who fleeing after looting a car from Bara locality of Allahabad on June 14 this year. The widows of constable Ramakant (killed by criminals in Ferojbad on August 1 this year), constable Rahul Dhaka (killed by miscreants in Saharanpur on June 5 this year) and constable Satish, who died in firing by criminals in Agra on May 29 earlier this year were also honoured by chief ministere Akhilesh Yadav.