Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vipin Tada on Monday disbanded a 15-member particular workforce within the division that handles high-risk conditions, and despatched the officers to Police Strains.
The main change is being linked to the unit’s failure to make arrests within the Sunil Pal-Mushtaq Khan abduction instances, police sources indicated. The same unit beneath the Bijnor police arrested eight of the ten accused, in addition to prime suspect Lavi Pal who was held following an encounter on Sunday night time.
Nevertheless, the Meerut police denied that the disbanding had something to do with the instances.
Vipin Tada stated the particular workforce was disbanded to arrange a brand new unit and infuse new power into investigations. “Stagnation is at all times harmful. Those that have just lately transferred to the Meerut police unit have expressed a want to work within the workforce and that’s the reason I made a decision to reconfigure it. The change ought to on no account be linked to the Sunil Pal-Mushtaq kidnapping case.”
Comic Sunil Pal and actor Mushtaq Khan had been kidnapped by the accused in November and earlier this month, who sought enormous ransoms to launch them from the identical visitor home in Bijnor.
The kidnapping case in reference to Sunil Pal was lodged in Meerut’s Lalkurti police station whereas that of Mushtaq Khan was lodged at Kotwali police station in Bijnor. The accused in each instances had been the identical.
“A workforce of police officers from Meerut additionally interrogated Lavi Pal in Bijnor. The Meerut police will search the remand of all of the accused later since Sunil Pal’s kidnapping case is lodged right here. We’ll quickly transfer the courtroom on this regard,” Tada stated.
The Meerut police made just one arrest within the case, that of accused Arjun Karnwal who tried to flee from police custody on December 20. He was being taken to a hospital for medical examination when Karnwal snatched the service weapon of a police officer and tried to fireplace bullets on the police workforce. The workforce fired again and an injured Karnwal was re-arrested.
The remaining accused, Ankit alias Pahadi, who was on the run, surrendered at Bijnor Kotwali police station late Monday. Earlier than being arrested, Ankit posted a video on social media addressed to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, saying, “Yogi-ji forgive me. Save me from the UP Police.”
“Ankit Pahadi has surrendered at Kotwali police station. He will likely be produced in courtroom on Tuesday afternoon,” stated Uday Pratap Singh who’s accountable for Kotwali (Metropolis) police station.
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