Panic gripped in the crowded premises of district session court in Faizabad

Panic gripped in the crowded premises of district session court in Faizabad, when over a decade old rivalry led to clash in which several crude bombes were hurled amidst cross-firing from both the groups, resulting into death of one of the criminal besides injuring four others including block pramukh of Dhanpatganj in Sultanpur, Yashbhadra Singh aka Monu, on Wednesday morning. It may be mentioned that while locals claimed that two persons were killed, Faizabad police confirmed of just one causality. 

local police which rushed to the spot along with senior officers including SSP Faizabad, KB  Singh, later claimed that the shoot-out took place to avenge the death of Sant Gyaneshwar with mafia don turned former MlA of BJP from Sultanpur, Chandra Bhadra Singh aka Sonu and his brother Monu, who was also injured and later referred to Trauma Centre at KGMU in lucknow. KB Singh, claimed that the criminal who died in cross firing has been identified as Sahil, a native of Nepal, who was a hard-core disciple of Sant Gyaneshwar. One of the held accused from whom three live bombs were also recovered has been identified as Jainendra, a  native of Achrehta in Agra, also a follower of Sant Gyaneshwar. He claimed that the probe so far pointed that the shoot-out took place to avenge the killing of Gyaneshwar, who along with eight of his other disciples including females were sprayed with bullets allegedly by Sonu, Monu and half a dozen of their unknown aides in Handiya locality of Allahabad, when they were going from Magh Mela in Prayag at Allahabad to Varanasi in February 10, 2006. Interestingly, both the brother already got clean chit in the case but the Allahabad police not made any appeal in the matter even when nine persons were killed in the incident. It was only Indradev Tewari, who was complainant in the case had challenged the lower court’s order and the matter was in court. KB Singh, that the rivalry between Sant Gyaneshwar with Sonu and Monu started over property of Ashram in Barabanki, in which Gyaneshwar, and his followers allegedly got the father of Sonu and Monu, Indra Bhadra Singh eliminated in 1999. later to avenge that killing, Sonu and Monu alleged to have killed Gyaneshwar and on Wednesday, followers of the Gyaneshwar tried to take revenge. Further investigations are on in the matter. Singh said that in Wednesday incidents.Monu besides naming the above two criminals, one of whom also killed, had also named former Minister in  Bahujan Samaj Party government, Pandit Singh, and one Kamla Devi, but they were looking into the matter.

Giving details of the Wednesday’s incident, KB Singh said that Monu and 9 other of his associates, all named in the kidnapping and killing of lekhpal, Ram Kumar Yadav, in Bikapur locality, were brought to produce them in the session court for trial on Wednesday morning. Ram Kumar was killed on October 25, 2010 in which both the brothers – Sonu and Monu – were named along with their henchmen. Both the brothers were also listed History Sheeter of Kudebhar police station in Sultanpur and are having dozens of cases of heinous crimes registered against them. Singh said that as Monu and his associates were taken inside the court, some unknown miscreants hurled bombs and opened fire to which the opposite side also retaliated. He claimed that while one from the attackers side was killed in firing, Monu along with three others identified as Manoj, Rishi Dev  Mishra, and Raj Kumar,all of Kudebhar in Sultanpur were injured. It may be mentioned here that some witnesses claimed that persons were killed but the police maintained that only one died in the firing.

The sensational firing inside the court premises also led to protest by the lawyers community who pelted stones and attacked the police team accusing that the failure of the local administration to forward adequate security had led to incident. later after two hours of protest, the lawyers give up agitation but only when senior officers assured of arranging proper security and also arrest of remaining criminals.