Panic gripped the Pratapgarh district court compound when two miscreants opened fire at four undertrials on Tuesday noon. The police party escorting the undertrials returned the fire forcing the criminals to flee the scene. One of the constables suffered pellet injuries in the exchange and was shifted to a hospital. Senior officers rushed to the spot after the incident and formed teams to track down the perpetrators.
As per reports, hardened criminal Bilal Ahmed of Bajha locality of Maudhaka police station area along with three aides were brought to Court no-14 by a police team to produce them in connection with a case of dacoity on Tuesday noon. After the hearing, as theyr were being escorted to the court lock-up, two rivals, one of them identified as Altaf of Khargipur area, appeared on the scene and opened fire at Bilal but missed the target.
In the meantime, one of the accompanying constables returned the fire forcing the criminals to jump over the boundary wall and escape. Constable Harendra Yadav was injured in the firing. A case was registered and further action was being taken to net the accused. Menwhile in Muzaffarnagar, two cops were injured after a group of people resorted to stone-pelting when a police team raided their house on the information of cow slaughter at Chaparasi village. “Acting on specific input that cow slaughter was being carried out at a house in Chaparasi village, police conducted raids there on Monday evening. They seized meat and skin from the house after which nine occupants of the house pelted stones at the police team from the terrace. Tarik Waseem and Bhishamber Singh were injured in the incident,” SP City Muzaffarnagar Omveer Singh said.
The police registered a case against the accused and efforts were on to nab them. One of the attackers was held by the police but was later freed by the other accused. Security has been tightened and additional force deployed as a precautionary measure. This is the second incident of stone-pelting on a police team in the district. At least eight persons, including five policemen, were injured last week after a group of people resorted to stone-pelting when a police team raided some houses on information of cow slaughter at Sherpur village.
Again in Muzaffarnagar, a 30-year-old woman was beaten to death and robbed of her ornaments by two unknown men on Bijnor road. Babli was riding a bike along with her husband Arun Kumar when their vehicle was intercepted by the duo on Tuesday morning. The miscreants snatched her ornaments and as she resisted, one of them brutally assaulted her causing critical injuries. She was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced her dead upon arrival. A case was registered and investigations are on. In another case in Muzaffarnagar, a 27-year-old woman was sexually harassed and beaten up by a man when she was alone at her house at Pinna village on Monday evening. A case was registered against Ankur ( 26) and he was arrested. The miscreant sexually harassed the woman when her husband was away and as she resisted, the youth beat her up.
lastly in Agra, a jeweller was shot at and cash and valuables worth several lakh rupees were looted from him. Only on Monday afternoon, a jeweller was shot at and looted in Mainpuri.
Jeweller Padam Singh from Hathras was going on his motorcycle when a woman signalled him to stop on the Agra-Mathura highway in Sikendra police station area of Agra. As he stopped, three motorcycle borne miscreants came there, opened fire and snatched the bag containing ornaments before fleeing the spot. The jeweller suffered minor pellet injury and was shifted to a hospital. A case was registered and investigations were on.