UP Police gun down accused for beating up cop to death

Within a few hours of a police constable beaten to death by six goons of a liquor mafia in Kasganj district on Tuesday evening, the Uttar Pradesh Police gunned down brother of the main accused in an encounter in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Infuriated over another attack on Khaki by criminals, the CM has directed to invoke NSA against the liquor mafia and his henchmen. Yogi Adityanath announced an ex gratia of Rs50 lakh to the family of the deceased cop and a government job.

Constable Devedndra Singh and SI Ashok Pal had gone to the house of liquor Moti Shakya in Nagla Dhimar village to serve a legal notice. They were surrounded by Moti and his goons who stripped their uniform and thrashed them. Later, they took the cops to jungle where they killed the constable.