Wanted criminal with Rs 50,000 reward on head arrested after encounter with police in UP
Bulandshahr (UP) (PTI): A wanted criminal, carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, was arrested by police after an encounter here, an official said on Sunday.
Dibai Circle Officer (CO) Varun Kumar Singh said an accused named Captain alias Mangal has been arrested during a police encounter in the Dibai police station area on Saturday night.
The accused, a native of Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, was wanted in many cases of robbery since 2014.
Mangal is also an active member of the Bavaria gang and a reward of Rs 50,000 has also been announced on him, Singh said.
According to police, Mangal, who was spotted with an accomplice, was surrounded by a police team on Saturday night on whom he opened fire. In retaliatory firing by the police, Mangal sustained bullet injury while other miscreant managed to escape.
Constable Pradeep Kumar posted at Dibai police station was also injured in the encounter, they said.
Mangal and the injured constable have been admitted to the Community Health Center in Dibai for treatment, they added.
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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.
The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.
The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.
According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.
As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.
The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.
Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.
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