Dreaded dacoit Sudesh Patel alias Balkhadia, carrying a cash reward of Rs five lakh on his head, said to have gave the police party a slip after they rounded him in Markundi forest area of Citrakut on Tuesday afternoon. local police officers who rushed to the spot claimed to have alerted the cops of neighbouring Madhya Pradesh police and had launched a joint combing operation.
Briefing the media persons here on Tuesday evening, DIG, Public Grievances, Satish Ganesh claimed that acting on a tip-off the cops of the Chitrakut police rounded Balkhadia in Markundi forest area on Tuesday afternoon. They were engaged in exchange of bullets for about an hour. He claimed that the cops failed to get success as the dacoits took advantage of dense forest and managed to escape.
However, he said that they alerted the cops of MP police and combing operation is still on. Ganesh said that luckily, none of the policemen received any injury during cross-firing. Meanwhile three criminals of Alwar district of Rajasthan, were found murdered in Mathura on Tuesday morning while a dispute over a petty issue claimed life of a youth in a separate incident at Mainpuri. In Mathura, the cops of the
Highway police station, claimed to have recovered three bodies lying near Vikasnagar Bajana Pul on Tuesday morning. The victims who were in their forties had gun shot injuries on their head and two country-made revolvers were also found on the spot. The cops later claimed to have maintained the identity of the victims as Ramendra, Mukesh Chandra, and Arvind, all three residents of Alwar district of Rajasthan. Cops said that all the three were running gang to dupe innocent youths by assuring them jobs. They also went to jail several times in other cases of cheating. A case has been registered and their bodies were sent for post-mortem. Efforts were also made to trace out the motive behind the killing.
In Mainpuri, a barat procession for marriage of daughter of one Deshraj Shakya, a native of Barnahal locality, was on way on Monday night when another local resident identified as Gulli, intervened and asked the driver of
`Hans Gadi’ (jeep on which groom was sitting), to finish the procession soon and accompany him so that another procession, which is of marriage of his (Gulli) brother’s daughter in the same village could be started. This resulted into scuffle between the two sides. The matter took an ugly turn when some baratis kept on dancing and asked Gulli to return and wait for the procession to reach the venue. This irked Gulli and he took out a country made weapon and opened fire in which groom’s cousin identified as Arun, a native of Kampil in Farukkabad died on the spot while one another barati was injured. Gulli later escaped from the spot. A case has been registered in this regard and efforts were made to lay a trap on the accused.