Sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) claimed to have achieved a big success when they nabbed four criminals reportedly involved in sensational killing of a lawyer in Pratapgarh.
During surveillance, the STF team found that the members of Vikas Singh’s gang had eliminated the lawyer Indramani Shukla, so through electronic surveillance, further information about their whereabouts has been collected. The team lastly get success when on Thursday, they get a tip off presence of some gang members at Gaya Ghat on Sai River in Pratapgarh and later managed to nab four of the criminals identified as Tapan Mishra, Ankit Khanselwal, Ambrish aka Patta and Amit Kumar Tewari aka Chotu, all hailing from Pratapgarh.
The STF team claimed to have also recovered four pistols and revolvers besides mobile phones, SIM cards, and other documents. During interrogation, the four confessed to have murdered local lawyer, Indramani Shukla just as the later refused to take up their case even after collecting money from them. They also disclosed to have shot at a local jeweler in Pratapgarh, Susheel Kumar besides they gunned down one leading trader Mahadev Kesharwani, just as the two refused to give them extortion money demanded by the gang leader. A case has been registered in this regard and further investigations are on.