Attack on the `khaki’ continued unabated with the in-charge of Kisni police station and Kushmara police outpost in Mainpuri suffering injuries after a gang fired at them indiscriminately when they tried to arrest them on Tuesday night.
The injured were admitted to a hospital and efforts were being made to arrest the criminals who managed to escape from the spot.
As per reports, Station House Officer of Kishni police station (Mainpuri), Diwakar Singh Yadav was tippe doff about the presence of hardened criminal Majboot Singh aka Satyendra at his native Bariha village on Tuesday night. A police team soon rushed to the area and arrest the accused. The ganglord however came to know about the police raid and sped off with his aides on a Scorpio SUV (Dl 3E J-0541).
The cops tried to intercept his vehicle but Majboot Singh and his gang members suddenly stopped and opened burst fire from an assault rifle in which sub-inspector in-charge of Kushmara police outpost Omveer Singh Yadav along with Inspector Diwakar Singh Yadav suffered gunshot wounds. Taking advantage of the situation, the criminals fled the scene on their SUV.
The injured cops were rushed to a near-by hospital for treatment by their colleagues. Senior officials later rushed to the spot and combed the area through the night but failed to track them miscreants. A case was registered in this regard.
Meanwhile in Meerut, the Mahamandleshwar (Head) of a temple in Surajkund was kidnapped by three persons.
As per reports, Rajendra Swaroop (52), the Mahamandelshwar of Baba Manoharnath temple was abducted while he was strolling near his house in Phool Bagh colony on Tuesday night. The miscreants bundled off the priest into a waiting car and fled. An FIR was lodged against three persons following a complaint by Swaroop's son Shivam. Efforts were on to nab the kidnappers and rescue Swaroop.
Meanwhile in another sensational kidnapping in Bareilly, a college student was kidnapped and a ransom of Rs 1 crore was demanded for his release. Reports said that Anurag Pal of Sidhauli locality of Shahjahenpur, is doing his second year from Gangasheel Ayurvedic College in Bareilly.
On Saturday evening, he left the college to visit his home town but went missing.
On Monday evening, the family members who launched a search for him received a call through which the miscreants confirmed kidnapping of Anurag and demanded Rs 1 crore for his release.
A case was registered in this regard and a probe is on. The Bareilly Police has sought the help of sleuths of Special Task Force (STF) to track down the kidnappers.