UP police 'encounters' criminals with 'operation clean'


Lucknow, Jul 13 (IANS): The massacre of eight police personnel in Bikru village on July 3 has spurred the UP police into action and an all-out offensive against criminals has been launched in Uttar Pradesh.

The police have carried out about two dozen encounters in the past ten days in which ten criminals have been killed and 15 injured.

Hours after the July 3 Kanpur ambush in which eight policemen lost their lives, the police shot dead two criminals, allegedly involved in the incident.

Prem Prakash Pandey and Atul Dubey were killed on the outskirts of Bikru village on the same day and were relatives of the main accused Vikas Dubey.

Another Vikas Dubey accomplice Amar Dubey was shot dead by the police on July 8 in Maudaha in Hamirpur district.

On July 9, the Special Task Force (STF) shot dead Prabhat Mishra, whom they had arrested from Faridabad, a day earlier.

The STF claimed that Prabhat tried to run away when the vehicle in which he was being brought to Kanpur, got a punctured tyre. He was killed in an encounter.

On the same day, another member of the Dubey gang, Bauan Dubey was shot dead in Etawah when he did not stop for checking of vehicles.

Vikas Dubey, the main accused in the killing of policemen, was shot dead on July 10 on the outskirts of Kanpur when he allegedly tried to flee.

Apart from this, dreaded criminal Deepak Gupta was killed in an encounter in Bhadohi, Babloo was shot dead in Aligarh and in Bahraich, another criminal Panna Yadav was killed.

ADG (Law and order) Prashant Kumar said that the state government's zero tolerance policy against criminals was being strictly enforced.

"No criminal will be spared and we have identified top ten criminals in every district," he said.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked police officials to initiate action against all criminals, irrespective of their political clout or influence.

  

Top Stories

Comment on this article

  • smr, Karkala

    Mon, Jul 13 2020

    Yogi Adityanath’s war on crime excluded powerful, connected criminals like Vikas Dubey.

    This militant monks government also has shown no compunctions in going to any extent to protect its own. It has withdrawn cases against the chief minister himself and against those accused of violent and murderous attacks on Muslims in the 2012 riots, it had extended protection to a ruling party MLA, Kuldeep Sengar, accused and now convicted of raping a minor and being involved in the killing of her father, and it has withdrawn a case of rape filed in 2011 against Chinmayanand, minister of state for home in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

    When another policeman, Subodh Singh, was brutally killed by leaders of the Bajrang Dal and their supporters in Bulandshahr in December 2018, it was the killers who were treated with kid gloves. When they came out on bail in a few months, they were publicly felicitated by leaders and elected representatives belonging to the ruling party in the presence of the police.

    An Inspector of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the counter-terror investigation agency formed after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was shot dead by unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants in front of his wife and children in Bijnore, western Uttar Pradesh.

    United Nations officials have written to the Indian government with information about 15 cases of what could be extra-judicial killings by the Uttar Pradesh police. They have also taken note of 59 cases of possible fake encounters.

    The PM Modi's government is yet to reply to this letter. Now with increasing extra judicial killings Uttam Pradesh should better renamed as 'Encounter Raj'.

    Jai Hind

    DisAgree [2] Agree [1] Reply Report Abuse

  • Rolf, Dubai

    Mon, Jul 13 2020

    Choor machaya shoor. ....da ka sarkar.

    DisAgree [5] Agree [6] Reply Report Abuse

  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Jul 13 2020

    Yogi Adityanath will now clean his Opposition ...

    DisAgree [9] Agree [11] Reply Report Abuse

  • Ranju, Mangalore

    Mon, Jul 13 2020

    Dear Mr. Jossey, you name should have been Negative Saldanha. never got to see any positive comment from you.

    DisAgree [4] Agree [14] Reply Report Abuse


Leave a Comment

Title: UP police 'encounters' criminals with 'operation clean'



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.