Four cops were shunted out of the police station and a case of murder was registered against them regarding death of an old man due to their excesses at Gorakhpur while agitated villagers lynched an alleged cattle smuggler in Moradabad and also torched the vehicle used in the crime. In Gorakhpur, one Jai Prakash Upadhya, a resident of Bari hamlet of Sikriganj lodged a report of against Sonu Singh, a resident of some locality and his henchmen claiming that they were indulged in attack on violence against him.
The case was registered on June 24 last at local Sikriganj police station. After investigation the case for more than a fortnight, the station officer of the Sikriganj, Shashank Shekhar Rai along with a sub-inspector and two constables conducted raids at Sonu Singh’s house to arrest him late on Wednesday night. Reports said that after finding Sonu Singh absconding from the house, the cops tortured his father Mahendra Raj Sing following which his condition deteriorated and he died before being shifted to the hospital. Finding Mahendra Raj already dead, the cops immediately fled from the scene bu till then hundred of local villagers already gathered at the spot and raised slogan. They later took road and ghearoed the police station demanding a murder case to be registered against the cops and also to take action against them.
Finding the situation tense, senior police officers reached the spot and announced removal of the guilty cops from the police station besides to get a case of murder registered against them. However no further legal proceedings has been made against them. In Moradabad, a PICUP (UP21N-2703) was reportedly plying stolen cattle to smuggle them for slaughtering on late Wednesday night. Some local villagers who were tipped off the illegal smuggling and that the cattle were the same which were stolen from their village had chased the vehicle on a tractor and managed to intercept it at Nazarpur turning under Mudhapande locality of the city. Finding themselves in trouble, the accused reportedly jumped out of the vehicle and tried to escape. However the villagers got hold of one of them while three others managed to slip.
Agitated villagers later brutally battered the accused to death and after removing the cattle from the vehicle they set it on fire. Surprisingly the local police reached the spot after two hours and claimed to have registered a case in this regard. They also managed to maintain the identity of the deceased as Mohamed Hanis (40), a resident of Sakhanda locality of Bhot in Rampur District. They later informed the incident to Hanis’s family and were probing the matter. Efforts were also on to trace out the identity of remaining three miscreants and to nab them.