State was rocked with a sensational escape of dreaded criminal, Amit aka Bhura, who with the help of his accomplices had sprayed chilly in the eyes of accompanying policemen and late fled from their custody on Monday morning. The miscreants also looted two AK-47 assault rifles and a SlR Rifles of the cops who even failed to put any resistance.
later taking the matter seriously, all the five policemen were placed under suspension and over half a dozen teams were formed to trace out the absconding criminal and his henchmen.
Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, had also reportedly taken the incident very seriously, and had directed the officers to trap the criminals or be ready to face the consequences. Surprisingly, the incident took place when director general of police, Al Banerjee is going under treatment as he was ill, while additional director general (law and
order)Mukul Goel, along with district police chief of Bagpat, are on leave. IG (Meerut Zone)Alok Sharma, rushed to the spot and is supervising the teams which are formed to arrest the accused. Orders have been also passed to take the help of Special Task Force (STF) to trace out the whereabouts of criminals.
Reports said that Bhura, who was dreaded criminal of Western UP, is nabbed by cops of Dehradun police in Uttrakhand. On Monday, he was to be produced in the court at Bagpat in connection with a murder case so a five members team from Dehradun, comprising of head-constable Ganga Ram and constables – Ilamchandra, Dharmednra, Pradeep Kumar, and Ravindra, from him to Bagpat on a passenger train. On Monday morning when they were carrying Bhura to court on a tempo, a White Colour Scorpio, having no registration plate suddenly intercepted the tempo near Kasta Jyoti School, under the Kotwali police station. About four to five miscreants occupying the four-wheeler suddenly jumped out of the vehicle and sprayed Chilly in the eyes of the cops.
Reports said that before the cops could react, the criminals also snatched AK-47 rifle and a SlR from Ilamchandra, Dharmendra and Ravindra. later to terrorise the public who were witnessed to thesensational incident, the criminals opened fire in air and later
escaped along with Bhura. The police party later somehow managed to pass-on the message to their bosses at Dehradun, who in turn informed the local Bagpat police after which the cops swung into action.
However, it is to late till then and despite of sealing the city limits and launching a massive search operation, pushing in the services of all the station officers of Bagpat and neighbouring districts, the cops failed to get any success.
Sources said that the sensational escape of Bhura has been masterminded by another dreaded criminal of Western UP, Neeraj Bhawana, who took the services of his right hand, identified as Rahul Katta, to excute the plan. Sources also said that the criminals need sophisticated weapons due to on-going gang-war hence while managing escape of Bhura, they also looted arms of the cops. It may be mentioned that recently, another listed gangster of Uttrakhand, Chinnu Pandit, was engaged in gang war and had managed an attack on Bhura in Dehradun, but the latter managed to save his life. Further efforts were on to trace out the whereabouts of Bhura and over half a dozen persons, suspected to be the gang members were detained for interrogation.