Unidentified miscreants struck terror in Mathura when they opened fire, held the cops at gun point and managed to release a hardened criminal in broad daylight on Monday.
The criminal was taken to produce him in connection with trial when the incident took place. Senior officers later reached the spot and claimed to have launched a massive hunt for the criminals. They also get a case registered and suspended all the three policemen accompanying the criminal.
Reports said that listed gangster Arun aka Fauji, hailing from lodha locality of Aligarh, was taken from Gautambudhnagar (Noida) District Prison to Deeng in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, in connection with trial in local court there, on Monday.
He was taken in a roadways bus in custody of constables Kuldeep Singh, Manjeet Singh and Jasweer Singh.
In the noon when the bus was passing through Asgarpur area of Mathura under Highway police station, some unknown criminals riding on motorcycle opened fire forcing the driver to stop the vehicle. They later entered inside and took policemen at gun point and threatening to kill them, they get the keys of handcuffs and opened it and later escaped safely along with Fauji. All the three cops later informed it to their bosses at Noida after which the Mathura police learnt of the incident.