Director General of Police, Sulkhan Singh on Tuesday felicitated the police teams from Mathura and Ferojabad respectively by giving citation to the gazetted officers and cash reward to others.
The move was reportedly made as the two police teams led by their district police chiefs had saved the state government for embarrassment particularly after entire Opposition had almost cornered the Yogi Adityanath in the State Assembly for failing to make any impact on law and order front and that the criminals were having a field day by killing two jewelers in Mathura and later kidnapping one of the top most glass merchant from Ferojabad. The officers who were felicitated by the DGP Sulkhan Singh on Tuesday included SSP of Mathura, Vinod Kumar Mishra, along with his additional SP, Ashok Kumar Singh, inspector, Devendra Nath Mishra and nine others while for another good work, SSP Ferojabad, Ajay Kumar, along with additional SP, Sanjeev Kumar Bajpayee, circle officer, Omkar Yadav, Prem Prakash Yadav, and 13 others received the honour. Sulkhan Singh later hailed the achievement and bravery shown by the cops and said that it would motivate the entire police force to take more such challenges in the future and at the same time would help in launching a crack down in such criminals particularly engaged in organised crime like dacoity, kidnapping etc.
Talking to The Pioneer here on Tuesday evening, SSP Mathura, Vinod Kumar Mishra said that they were already looking for the criminals involved in sensational killing and loot in jewelry showroom. He claimed that with the help of CCTV footage, they found that the criminals were same so we made extensive raids on the suspected hideouts and luckily got success in tracing out them and also to recover the looted booty. Similarly, SSP Ferojabad, Ajay Kumar said that kidnappers had planned to extort ransom from trader Sanjay Mittal’s family but luckily they traced out their location and before they could shift the victim to some safe hideout, they cornered them and after brief encounter, they managed to rescue the trader and also to arrest one of the abductors. Kumar said that his team is already on the job so all of them had not come to lucknow to receive the honour from DGP but hope that very soon, the kingpin of the gang will be also arrested. Kumar termed the entire operation as one of the most challenging task he had handled in his career and claimed that he was happy that within few hour of kidnapping, they managed to rescue the trader.