Four Uttarakhand cops sent to Tihar Jail

Express News Service, Fri, Apr 29, 2011, New Delhi

A Tis Hazari court on Thursday sent four Uttarakhand policemen, allegedly involved in the July 2009 fake encounter killing of a youth near Dehradun, to judicial custody in Tihar Jail till May 9.

The accused are Inspector Santosh Kumar Jaiswal and sub-inspectors Gopal Dutt Bhatt, Niraj Yadav and Chandra Mohan Singh Rawat.

Special Judge V K Maheshwari also issued fresh non-bailable warrants against three other police officials — Rajesh Bisht, Nitin Chauhan and Ajit Singh — after they failed to appear in the court despite non-bailable warrants being issued against them.

Eleven other accused persons against whom the court had issued notices on the last date of hearing were also present in the court on Thursday. The court has posted the matter for arguments on May 9.

Ranbir Singh, a 22-year-old MBA student, was allegedly gunned down by the Uttarakhand Police on July 3, 2009. A resident of Meerut, Singh had gone to Dehradun in search of a job when police shot him dead on July 2, 2009, after accusing him of robbery. The case was transferred from Dehradun to Delhi last month.

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