Police invoke murder attempt charge in FIR
THE IIIT ADMINISTRATION LODGED A COMPLAINT IN THE INCIDENT ON TUESDAY, SAID SHO ARUN KUMAR SINGH
PRAYAGRAJ: The airport police station here on Tuesday lodged an FIR in connection with the alleged attack on a student on the campus of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Allahabad on Saturday.
Aniket Jat, 20, a student of IIIT-Jabalpur, received a gunshot wound in the attack.
Attempt to murder and charges under other sections of the IPC were invoked in the FIR that came after the IIIT administration lodged a complaint in the incident on Tuesday, said station house officer Arun Kumar Singh.
As per reports, an inter-IIIT sports meet was underway on the IIIT-A campus in Jhalwa area in which students from 22 IIITs were participating. Aniket was here for the sports meet.
On Saturday, during a volleyball match between teams from Vadodara and Surat, people in the audience reported hearing cracker explosion-like noise.
Soon, Aniket, who was in the audience, was found bleeding due to an injury to one of his thighs.
Aniket was rushed to a private hospital where the doctors referred him to SRN hospital. Police officials said CCTV footage were being scanned and other students were being questioned to identify the person who had brought a firearm to the campus.
Four of highway robber gang arrested
In a significant breakthrough, the special operations group (SOG) and Shankargarh police of the trans-Yamuna area arrested four members of a gang of highway robbers on Monday. The gang had looted a vehicle, cash, firearms, and marijuana after holding a man hostage on March 8, said the police officials.
Trans-Yamuna DCP Shraddha Narendra Pandey said that acting on a tip-off, police teams arrested Kushal Kesarwani, 25, Lavkush Kesarwani, 26, from the Industrial area, and Abhay Singh, 21, and Lavkush Kumar
Pal, 22, from the Koraon area. Items recovered from their possession included a Duster car, the looted XUV, 1.05 quintals of marijuana, a homemade singleshot pistol, two cartridges, cash amounting to Rs. 22,000, and mobile phones.
The gang had intercepted a person traveling in an SUV near Naribari on the night of March 8, holding
him hostage before releasing him and fleeing with his vehicle. An FIR was lodged at Shankargarh police station, prompting the formation of several teams to track down and apprehend the culprits. Preliminary investigations revealed the gang’s involvement in smuggling marijuana from other states and distributing it in the region.