Trainee SI sent to jail after 2 hurt in Noida area firing

Police rejects encounter charges by victims’ family

Noida: A trainee sub- inspector allegedly opened fire at two men in Sector 122 area here following which he was sent to jail, with the police terming it a case of personal enmity and not an encounter. Four policemen were suspended after the incident, a police official said. Family of the victim alleged that the police wanted to kill them in an encounter. However, the police linked it to enmity.

Four police personnel have been suspended after a trainee sub- inspector allegedly shot at a 26- yearold gym trainer and his friends when they were returning home in Noida Sector- 122 on Saturday late night. While one has sustained injuries on the leg, the other one is critically injured. The police, however, denied the family’s claims of a fake encounter, saying it was a case of personal enmity.

A relative of Jitendra Yadav, who is fighting for his life in hospital, said the police has taken to targeting young men in the area, staging fake encounters to get promotions.

On Sunday afternoon, SSP ( Gautam Buddha Nagar) Love Kumar maintained: “Prima facie, what has come to be understood is that it is not an encounter, but an unusual incident in which the accused sub- inspector has been arrested and sent to jail. We are probing the case from different angles and all facts are being verified,” Mr Kumar said.

Sub- inspector Darshan has been arrested and three other police personnel — a sub- inspector and two constables — had been suspended, he added.

The family members of one of those who suffered injuries said that it was a fake encounter. However, the UP police cited personal enmity behind the incident on Saturday night.

“During the probe, it was found that the trainee subinspector knew the elder brother of the man, who was shot,” Mr Kumar said.

The family of Jitendra Yadav, who was shot in the neck, said that the police targeted him in a “fake encounter.” They also accused the policemen, involved in the incident, of targeting the two men because of their caste. The family said that Mr Yadav and three others were returning from Bahrampur around 10.30 pm when the police stopped their vehicle and opened fire.

Meanwhile, in a major embarrassment to the Delhi police, a CCTV footage went viral where the Mianwali Nagar police station SHO, along with three other junior policemen, can be seen allegedly brutally assaulting seven persons, including an officer of the Central excise department, a tax assistant with the income- tax department, and five of their associates.

A complaint about the alleged assault was made to DCP ( Outer) M. N. Tiwari by Mahavir Singh Saini, the father of one of the assaulted. The police has stated that the SHO has been sent to the district lines and an internal inquiry has been initiated.

In Delhi, a CCTV footage went viral where the SHO of Mianwali Nagar police station, along with three other cops, can be seen brutally assaulting seven persons