Inspector General (Agra Range) A Satish Ganesh on Thursday announced a cash reward on the killer of Sub-Inspector Prashant Yadav and formed eight teams to arrest him at earliest.
The martyred policeman, Prashant Yadav, was cremated with full state honour in his native village in Bulandshahr. Reports said that after the post-mortem, the body was kept for senior police officers to pay homage after which it was taken to his native place for the last rites.
It may be mentioned that Sub-Inspector Prashant Yadav was killed in Agra after he went to resolve a dispute between two brothers.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had expressed grief over the death of the cop and announced a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to his family besides a job for a dependant. He had also issued a directive to name a road after the martyred sub-inspector and had asked the senior officers to take stern action against those involved in the crime.
The incident took place when Prashant Yadav, posted at Khandauli police station in Agra, went to Nehra hamlet on Wednesday evening after learning about a dispute over the agriculture field between two brothers. As he reached the spot and enquired about the dispute from the elder brother who had called the police, the younger brother, Vishwanath, got agitated and opened fire with a country-made weapon. The firing turned fatal for Prashant as he was hit by a bullet and died on the way to hospital.
Meanwhile, three teachers have been suspended and a case against them along with one another for sexual harassment and teasing, besides culpable homicide for forcing a school teacher to commit suicide in Bahraich.
The teacher ended his life due to the insensitivity of the local cops who did not take cognisance of excesses by the accused, forcing the victim to commit suicide.
According to reports, the Basic Shiksha Adhikari in Bahraich, Udai Raj, after learning that a case had been registered against three teachers, placed all of them under suspension on Thursday. The accused teachers along with one other person had reportedly harassed an assistant teacher, Akansha Mishra, and threatened her husband Neeraj Chaubey (31), also a teacher in the same government school, after the latter warned of action.
ASP Kunwar Gyananjay Singh said that soon after learning that Chaubey, who consumed poison on Tuesday night, died in the SPM Hospital in Lucknow on Wednesday night, they registered a case and launched a hunt for the accused. Sources disclosed that all the accused belong to a particular community and are absconding to evade arrest.
It may be mentioned that the sensational incident was reported from Bahraich and the victim took the step as the accused harassed his wife and he got no relief from the local police to whom he complained several times.
Chaubey was living in a rented house in the Kaiserganj area of Bahraich. Reports said that he was upset for the last few days as half a dozen local goons, including three of his junior colleagues, started harassing his wife whenever she went out to school or for any other work. Even during the absence of Chaubey, they camped near his house and passed lewd remarks. When several of his complaints to the police went unheard and the accused also started threatening him for going to the police, Chaubey went in depression and on Tuesday night, he wrote a suicide note mentioning all the above facts and stating that he was ending his life. After finding him in an unconscious state, the victim was rushed to the local community health centre from where he was referred to Lucknow.