Close on the heels of killing of a sub-inspector in Badaun and injuring a constable at Faizabad, unidentified gunmen one again gunned down a sub-inspector in Hapur on Thursday night.
While the police brass claimed to be looking into the probable motives behind the killing, the slain cop’s colleagues asserted that it was a well planned murder plot.
The lower rung cops opined that sub-inspector Sukhbeer Singh (57) was sprayed with bullets while he was going to probe a major scam of funds by Madrasa owner in west UP. They suspected that the owner orchestrated teh cop’s elimination.
Singh was posted at Kotwali police station of Hapur and was entrusted with a multi-crore rupees scam in distribution and utilisation of government funds to madarsas in western UP.
In the police station’s General Diary (GD), Singh, mentioned that he was going to Meerut to probe the scam and record statements of some accused. But as he headed for Meerut, some unknown gunmen riding bikes intercepted his vehicle at Modinagar-Hapur Road. They opened indiscriminate fire critically injuring the sub-inspector and sped off.
The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. later senior officers reached at the scene of crime and supervised the investigations. The angles of murder during loot attempt, personal enmity leading to murder and eliminating teh cop to slow down the probe into the Madrasa scam were being looked into. Further investigations were on.