law and order situation in the State has been taken for a ride by the criminals who did not even hesitate to open fire on the police, in order to make a safe escape. The incident in Bagpat, in which the criminals not only managed to set a dreaded gangster free from police custody but also looted AK-47 assaulted rifles and SlRs, is not an isolated case but many such incidents have been reported in about a fortnight.
Surprisingly, in majority of the incidents the cops remained mute spectators and failed to do anything. On last Friday, over two dozen inmates of Juvenile Home in Meerut created ruckus when they not only misbehaved with the cops, but later they also attacked the police party in which they not just killed a police constable but also left many of them seriously injured. Within 24-hours of this incident, another similar incident was reported from Chitrakot, where four juveniles, jailed for rape and dacoity, have escaped from the Child Protection Home after opening fire and also hitting the security guard with the butt of the country made revolver.
The sensational incident took place in Karvi area of the dacoit-infested Chitrakot district in Bundelkhand region and Deepak Patel, nephew of dreaded dacoit Sudesh Patel alias Balkheria on whom UP and MP Government have announced a reward of `4 lakh, was amongst the four inmates who escaped.
Besides the above, in a separate incident reported from Muzaffarnagar, unidentified criminals sprayed the chief warden of local district jail, Chunni lal, that too just adjacent to jail boundary on last Thursday night.