Lucknow, July 17 (UNI): Within 24 hours of Uttar Pradesh police killing four criminals in an alleged encounter in Western UP, unidentified criminals threw an open challenge before the law enforcing agencies, by killing two policemen in Sambhal on Wednesday.
The criminals opened fire at a police van carrying two dozen criminals in Sambhal, killing both the cops and managing to free three of the criminals from the custody. They also took off with a rifle.
Senior officers rushed to the spot and were investigating the matter.
A hunt was also launched to arrest the miscreants, including the criminals who fled from the custody, but no breakthrough has been made, till the time of filing this report.
SP Sambhal Yamuna Prasad, who was supervising the operation, confirmed the death of both the constables, identified as Brijpal and Harendra.
He claimed that a combing operation is on and the accused would be arrested soon. According to Prasad, 24 criminals lodged in Moradabad district jail were brought to the district court of Sambhal in Chandausi area on Wednesday morning. After producing them in the court in the concerned matters, they were taken back on a police vehicle.
At Dhannuman Tiraha under the Baniyather police station area, the driver of the van heard gun shot coming from the back, so he stopped the vehicle and as he looked, he suspected that someone was firing at the van.
When the firing stopped, the van driver went back and saw both the police constable deployed on van security lying in a pool of blood and rifle of one of them was missing.
The driver also found three of the criminals in the van missing. The driver passed on the message to police control room, after which senior officers rushed to the spot and shifted both the policemen to the district hospital, where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
The driver failed to explain whether someone fired from outside or the criminals who fled from the van managed to get weapons in the court, when they were produced before the judge and later, when they were taken back, they used it to kill both the constables and flee with his rifle.
Mr Prasad said a police team from Sambhal, along with colleagues in the neighbouring districts, were engaged in the combing operation.
Sleuths of the Special Task Force (West Zone) have been also pushed into action, who are helping the local police in the investigation.
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