A police inspector was shot dead by some car-borne assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad city, police said on Friday.
Inspector General (law and Order) RK Vishwakarma said that Bara police station chief RP Dwivedi was chasing criminals when he was shot dead on late Thursday.
An informer had called Dwivedi on his mobile to tell him about some criminals’ movement in a car in his area. Soon after speaking to the informer, Dwivedi went alone in his car to chase down the criminals. But they opened fire on the officer on Bargarh Marg, killing him on the spot, a police official said.
With a sub-inspector sprayed with bullets by unidentified assailants in Allahabad, law and order seems to have taken for a ride with a series of incidents of murder and other sensational crimes poured in during the last 24-hours.
In first incident at Gazipur district, a farmer was shot dead when he tried to prevent a shop from being looted by a three-member gang in Suhval area in the wee hours of Friday.
Reports said that farmer, Sadakant, was returning home from the fields, when he spotted the robbers and raised an alarm. He died after being hit by a bullet fired by one of the criminals. Villagers managed to apprehend one of the robbers but the other two managed to escape.
In another incident, armed criminals attacked a family killing one teenager and injuring five others in Sadabad area of Hathras on late Thursday night. Reports said that unknown miscreants barged inside the house of one Ajmatullah in Gigli village. They fired on the family members in which Gulfam(14) died on the spot. However, Ajmatullah, his wife, two daughters and one another relative were injured in the firing and were rushed to Agra medical college hospital. later, the village pradhan came in rescue of the family and when he fired from his licensed firearms, the criminals fled. Police has launched a manhunt to nab the culprits.
In Moradabad, 23-year-old Babloo, a native of Tudmadi locality of Kath had a dispute with his neighbour Sachin, when they were drinking together at local wine shop on Thursday night. The matter took an ugly turn when both opened fire at each other in which Babloo died on the spot while Sachin was rushed to District Hospital in critical condition. later kin of Babloo attacked Kachedu, who is cousin of Babloo and brutally battered him to death.
In another incident at Shamli, two groups led by Udham Singh, a native of Bharsi in Kandhla and another by his neighbours Narendra and Virendra, opened fire at each other over land dispute on Thursday night in which one local villager Virendra (60) was killed while half a dozen others were injured.