Lucknow:
In yet another incident of rampant lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh, a senior police officer came under heavy firing when he tried to stop the vehicle in which some criminals were trying to escape.
The police got a tip-off that a group of four, wanted in many cases of loot and theft, were heading towards Saharanpur in a stolen car.
Circle Officer Umesh Singh, a DSP-rank officer, and his team decided to intercept these men. When the police stopped their car to check if they were indeed the criminals they have information about, the four men started firing indiscriminately, killing Mr Singh's bodyguard Rahul Daga on the spot.
Mr Singh escaped unhurt and the criminals managed to flee from the spot.
The police then launched combing operations in and around Saharanpur which is still underway.
The incident comes a day after chief of the ruling Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav, while praising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for improving the notoriously poor law and order in Bihar, quipped that his son, Akhilesh, who heads the UP government, could "pull a Bihar in 15 days if he wants."
Safety in Uttar Pradesh has been a weak point. When Akhilesh Yadav took over as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh last year, he promised to act tough to improve the law and order situation in the state. But incidents like these have posed serious questions before his government.
The police got a tip-off that a group of four, wanted in many cases of loot and theft, were heading towards Saharanpur in a stolen car.
Circle Officer Umesh Singh, a DSP-rank officer, and his team decided to intercept these men. When the police stopped their car to check if they were indeed the criminals they have information about, the four men started firing indiscriminately, killing Mr Singh's bodyguard Rahul Daga on the spot.
Mr Singh escaped unhurt and the criminals managed to flee from the spot.
The police then launched combing operations in and around Saharanpur which is still underway.
The incident comes a day after chief of the ruling Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav, while praising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for improving the notoriously poor law and order in Bihar, quipped that his son, Akhilesh, who heads the UP government, could "pull a Bihar in 15 days if he wants."
Safety in Uttar Pradesh has been a weak point. When Akhilesh Yadav took over as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh last year, he promised to act tough to improve the law and order situation in the state. But incidents like these have posed serious questions before his government.
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