Uttar Pradesh Police DGP Headquarters,1,142 encounters were recorded 20 Mar 2017 - 31 Jan 2018

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According to data sourced from DGP Headquarters, as many as 1,142 encounters were recorded between March 20, 2017 and January 31 this year. In the last 25 days itself, eight people were killed in 60 encounters across districts.

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: February 9, 2018 3:12 pm

On a day when his government faced strong protests in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly over police encounters in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserted that criminals in the state should be answered in a language they understood. Speaking at an event in Gorakhpur on Thursday, the UP CM said, “Suraksha ki guarantee har vyakti ko milni chahiye. Lekin jo log samaj ka mahaul bigadna chaahte hain, jinlogon ki bandook ki nok pe vishwas hai, unhe bandook ki hi bhasha mein jawab dena chahiye. Yeh main poori spashta ke saath prashaasan se kahoonga (Everyone should be guaranteed security, but those who want to disturb peace of the society and believe in the gun, should be given the answer in the language of the gun itself. I would tell the administration, that there is no need to worry on this)”

The Adityanath government which came power last year has faced criticism over the staggering number of police encounters in the state in the recent past, killing 38 alleged criminals since March 2017. According to data sourced from DGP Headquarters, as many as 1,142 encounters were recorded between March 20, 2017 and January 31 this year. In the last 25 days itself, eight people were killed in 60 encounters across districts.

The matter has raised concerns in various quarters. On November 22, the National Human Rights Commission also issued a notice to the state government over 19 encounters in six months. Opposition members too have raised the issue in Assembly and Parliament. On Thursday, Samajwadi Party legislators carried placards with the slogan “nirdoshon ka farzi encounter bandh karo (stop killing innocents in fake encounters)”. The Opposition members also threw balloons and paper balls at the Governor while protesting against a series of issues, including the police encounters.

Hitting out at the Opposition, Adityanath said on Thursday that their behaviour in the Assembly was despicable. “This type of behaviour shatters the parliamentary tradition … Paper balls were thrown, balloons were flown. The use of foul language for the governor by the Samajwadi Party members in the presence of their leaders is indeed unparliamentary and an despicable act,” he said. The behaviour pointed to the anarchy that was there in the state under the earlier rule, Adityanath added.

“These people are yet to come out of their mindset of anarchy — which they had allowed in the state — and they do not want the House to be free from that anarchy,” he said.

 

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Another accused in the killing of Chandan Gupta during a rally on Republic Day in Kasganj town of Uttar Pradesh has surrendered before a local court, police said. “Asif Gymwala, who was named as an accused in the Chandan Gupta murder case, surrendered in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate. The court has sent him to jail,” Superintendent of Police Piyush Srivastava said on Thursday.

Gupta died of gunshot wounds after he was shot at during the motorcycle rally taken out to celebrate Republic Day. His killing led to communal violence in the western UP town. At least three shops, two buses and a car were torched.

Yesterday, the police claimed to have recovered the weapon used to kill Gupta.

Last week, a person was arrested in connection with the killing.

On January 31, police said they have arrested Saleem, who they identified as the main accused in the murder case.

 

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Muzaffarnagar district authorities are not in favour of withdrawing cases related to the 2013 riots in which more than 60 people were killed, official sources said on Friday.

The authorities, in response to two letters from the Uttar Pradesh department of justice, have advocated against the withdrawal of 10 such cases as the court has already taken cognisance against the accused after charge sheets were filed by the police and the special investigation team (SIT) probing the riots, the sources said.

Earlier in the week, Muzaffarnagar MP Balyan met chief minister Yogi Adityanath, seeking the withdrawal of 402 cases registered during the riots.

He was accompanied by members of the Muzaffarnagar and Shamli khap during the meeting with Adityanath, who was said to have assured the delegation that he will look into their demands.

The riots that took place in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar in August and September 2013 displaced nearly 50,000 people and shattered the Jat-Muslim unity.

In the two letters to the Muzaffarnagar district magistrate, the department of justice had sought information on 13 points, including whether cases could be withdrawn in public interest.

The district authorities have opposed the proposal in the interest of justice, on the recommendation of the district prosecution department, the sources said.

The accused are facing charges under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for violating prohibitory orders, deterring public servants from discharging their duties and wrongful restraint.

The accused had allegedly participated in a mahapanchayat and incited violence through their speeches in the last week of August 2013.

 

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The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on February 10, 2018.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath meeting the President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on February 10, 2018.

 

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By: PTI | Lucknow | Published: February 11, 2018 4:55 pm

The Home Guards are being imparted training in handling INSAS rifles. This will ensure effective action against anti-national elements at the India-Nepal border,” Kumar Shukla, DG, Home Guards, said.

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The Uttar Pradesh Home Guards has sent a proposal to the Centre to engage personnel of the 95,000-strong auxiliary force to work in tandem with the frontier guarding force Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) along the India-Nepal border and also assist in flood relief operations.

“In a recent meeting with officials from the Centre, a proposal was mooted to engage 1,200 jawans of UP Home Guards in border security duties on the India-Nepal border during non-flood period of the year, and during floods, the jawans will be participating in flood relief operations,” Surya Kumar Shukla, DG, Home Guards, told PTI today.

Shukla was in Kanpur yesterday to hold a review meeting. “It will be a challenge for the home guards to guard Indo-Nepal border, as it is an open border, and there is no restriction of movement of people. The Home Guards are being imparted training in handling INSAS rifles. This will ensure effective action against anti-national elements at the India-Nepal border,” he said.

The DG also said, “We are going to purchase INSAS rifles from government factories, and we will provide jawans for operational duties. As of now, as many as 1,200 home guard jawans have been trained in handling INSAS rifles. This will also prove effective in combating dreaded dacoits in ravines and other anti-dacoity operations. The training generally takes place in batches.”

Shukla also informed that nearly 100 jawans of NDRF (National Disaster Relief Force) have been given accommodation at Home Guard headquarters to impart training to home guard jawans in flood-relief operations and other natural calamities. So far 1,200 jawans have already been trained in flood relief operations.

He also informed that 2,700 home guards are deployed with UP ‘Dial 100’ service in the capacity of drivers. “Another 3,000 drivers are being imparted driving training in Sitapur,” Shukla said.

Asked whether there are any plans to infuse a dose of confidence among the personnel, Shukla, also the Commandant General of UP Home Guards, said, “Jawans who grow big moustache will be felicitated. This will also enable the jawans to discharge their duties with more confidence and higher morale. Very soon you will see a dynamic home guard.”

If the proposal is approved, the UP Home Guards would assist the SSB, which works under the command of the Union home ministry, in guarding a part of the 1,751 km long Indo-Nepal border.

Uttar Pradesh shares a 599.3 km long open border with Nepal touching seven districts – Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Khiri, Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Sidhharthnagar and Maharajganj.

Formed in 1962 during the India-China war, the Uttar Pradesh Home Guards is an independent department under the state government. Its personnel are engaged in maintaining peace, internal security also help in rescue operations during natural calamities.

 

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Most populated state in India (7th largest country if based on number of peoples) begins journey from lawlessness to provider of law and security.

Most criminals where from SP and BSP who were enjoying security from then state government.

 

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A suspected terrorist, who managed to flee during the Batla House encounter in Delhi 10 years ago, was arrested from the Indo-Nepal border four days ago, police said on Wednesday.

Ariz Khan alias Junaid, who carries a reward of Rs 10 lakh announced by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), is reportedly involved in serial blasts in Delhi, Varanasi, Jaipur and Uttar Pradesh.

He was closely associated with the Bhatkal brothers - Yasin and Iqbal - who co-founded the enemy based terrorist group.

The 32-year-old's arrest by the Delhi Police's Special Cell comes three week after the elite anti-terror force apprehended another suspected operative aged 46, a software engineer-turned-bombmaker, from east Delhi after a brief gunbattle.

The NIA had filed a case against Junaid and 11 others, including the Bhatkal brothers, in September 2012 for entering into a conspiracy to wage war against the country.

Junaid's name figures in the chargesheet the agency filed in a special court in September 2014.

Altogether, the NIA has pressed charges against 33 suspected
terrorists.

According to the NIA chargesheet, Junaid is one of the "principal conspirators and executioners" of various "heinous terrorist acts in different parts of India along with Bhatkal brothers, Amir Reza Khan, Tahsin Akthar and Azadullah Akthar.

Junaid, who hails from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, had managed to escape from Batla House in south Delhi when special cell sleuths surrounded them in their flat, while Atif Ameen, the head of Azamgarh module was killed along with another operative, six days after the Delhi serial blasts in 2008.

Two others were arrested from the spot. Ameen had "radicalised" Junaid along with 17 others who formed the module.

Junaid's arrest from the Indo-Nepal border while trying to enter India showes that some of the fugitive operatives are holed up in the neighbouring country.

Qureshi, who was arrested on January 22, was also in Nepal for a long time before he sneaked into India.

 

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Muzaffarnagar, February 15

Unidentified miscreants shot at a cleric when he was on his way to a madrassa from his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, a police official said on Thursday.

Maulvi Talib was shot at and injured in Hath Chhoya village in the district on Wednesday, Circle Officer Rajesh Tiwari said. The cleric has been admitted to an area hospital.

The reason behind the attack was not immediately clear, but a police team was investigating the matter, Tiwari added. PTI

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Muzaffarnagar, February 15

Uttar Pradesh Police have busted an illegal arms manufacturing unit and arrested two people in Muzaffarnagar district, a police official said on Thursday.

The police seized 12 pistols during a raid at the unit at Budhana village on Wednesday evening, Superintendent of Police, Rural, Ajay Sahdev, said.

Two people were arrested in this connection, he said, adding that the accused were supplying illegal arms to Panipat and Sonepat in Haryana. PTI

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Mohali, February 14

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today arrested a man for allegedly supplying weapons to the accused in the targeted killings of RSS and other Right-wing leaders in Punjab.

The NIA has, so far, arrested 11 persons for their involvement in the killings. The man, said to be in the mid-20s, has been identified as Parvez alias Farooq. Sources said he was arrested from Uttar Pradesh.

The accused, who have been lodged in jails in Ropar, Patiala and Nabha, were produced in court amid heavy security.

Judge Anshul Berry of the NIA court today extended the remand of all accused till March 5 and clubbed together the cases that will now be heard on the next date.

Sources said Nabha jailbreak accused Harminder Singh Mintoo would be brought on a production warrant and produced in court on March 12.

The NIA had earlier filed an application in court seeking the shifting of the accused to Tihar Jail in Delhi, citing intelligence inputs of a threat to their life in Punjab’s jails.

The application for shifting the accused to Tihar will be heard tomorrow. On Monday, the NIA had sought a 90-day-extension for filing of the chargesheet against the accused in three separate cases.

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New Delhi, February 14

The NIA has arrested a suspected arms supplier from Uttar Pradesh in connection with its probe into the killing of RSS leader Ravinder Gosain in Ludhiana in October 2017.

An agency spokesperson said Parvez alias Farru, who had been on the run, was arrested last night from his house in Kotwali area in Meerut. “Parvez was wanted in connection with supplying arms to Hardeep Singh alias Shera, one of the main accused in the cases related to targeted killings in Punjab in 2016-2017,” the spokesperson said.

Parvez is eleventh person to be arrested by the agency during its probe. He said Parvez was produced before a special court in Mohali, which sent him to one-day custody of the agency today.

The weapons supplied by Parvez, he said, were "used" in several of the eight incidents committed as part of an international conspiracy with an objective to de-stabilise the law and order situation in Punjab and to revive militancy in the state.

In October last year, two unidentified people had killed Gosain, the chief of Raghunathnagar Shakha of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Ludhiana, when he was sitting outside his house.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had then said the state would hand over the probe into this case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The killing of the RSS leader was the latest in a series of murderous attacks on right-wing and religious leaders in Punjab. — PTI

 

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A total of 40 dreaded criminals have been gunned down in 1,200 encounters, and this will continue, the Chief Minister said.

He was replying to Devendra Pratap Singh’s (BJP) question on propriety pertaining to the February 13 directive of Chairman Ramesh Yadav asking the Yogi Adityanath government to get a CBI probe conducted into three cases, including of two police encounters.

“It is unfortunate that some people are showing sympathy towards criminals. This is dangerous for democracy. The Noida incident which took place on February 3, in which Jitendra Yadav was hit by a bullet, was not a police encounter, and police do not count it as an encounter. Even the person affected had endorsed it,” he said.

The Chief Minister urged the Chair to consider the questions raised by Devendra Pratap Singh.

To this, Leader of Opposition Ahmed Hasan (SP) said the Chair had already directed the government to get a CBI probe conducted. “Now it can either recommend a CBI probe or may not do so. What is the relevance of the objection,” Mr. Hasan asked.

Later, Chairman Ramesh Yadav said he would reserve his decision on the question of propriety raised by Mr. Singh.


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On November 22 2017 issued a notice from state government over 19 encounters in six months. Opposition members too have raised the issue in Assembly and Parliament.

 

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Balwant Garg
Tribune News Service
Faridkot, February 16

Even as the court of judicial magistrate declared Ranjit Singh Dupla, prime accused in a foreign arms smuggling scam, a proclaimed offender this week, sources in the police say the gangster has already slipped out of the country.

The court has also issued non-bailable warrants against two of the seven other accused for their non-appearance in the court. The police are on a weak wicket as the custody of 10 of the 13 foreign-made weapons recovered in this scam has already been handed over to ‘suspected’ accused.

The court allowed the ‘supardari’ (custody) of these sophisticated weapons to the ‘suspected’ accused after the police gave an undertaking in the court that these ‘suspects’ were prima facie bonafide buyers from the smugglers and arms dealer. The police have given a clean chit to all those from whom the smuggled weapons made in the US, Finland, Germany and Italy were recovered four years ago.

Faridkot DSP Jastinder Singh said he was not aware of Dupla’s whereabouts and would study the case before issuing a statement.

After arresting two notorious gangsters, Dupla and his associate Gurcharan Singh alias Rinka who are facing 18 criminal cases for kidnapping, attempt to murder and smuggling weapons in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, in October 2014, the Faridkot police had claimed of having recovered 13 foreign-made expensive weapons which the gangsters had sold to many rich brats in Chandigarh and Delhi.

 

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Three illegal arms suppliers of an inter-state gang were arrested on Saturday and 21 pistols recovered from them, said Delhi police on Sunday.

Kamlesh alias Kamal of Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh, Aloy Jaiswal of Gonda district in UP and Rakesh Kumar of Jhalawara in Rajasthan, were arrested near Barapula flyover when they were travelling in car with illegal arms. They were on the way to supply the consignment to an arms dealer in the city.

“We have got the tip of regarding movement of illegal arms suppliers in the city. A trap was laid near Sarai Kalen Khan Bus stand. At 2.45, a car coming from NH 24 towards Barapulla was signaled to stop. The driver stopped the car but a passenger with black color bag jumped out of the car and tried to run away. He was chased and caught,” said a senior police official.

 

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Tribune News Service
Sangrur, February 21

The district police arrested nine criminals from two places and seized nine country-made pistols from their possession last night. The IG, Patiala Zone, AS Rai, said today that the weapons were purchased from western Uttar Pradesh, adding that the vendor had been identified.

Rai said a police party from the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), led by ASI Avtar Singh, arrested Lakhvir Singh, Rajwinder Singh, Sansar Singh and Mandeep Singh at Lehra, while co-accused Sandeep Singh alias Ghora escaped. The police confiscated four pistols and four cartridges.

“The investigation revealed that Lakhvir had purchased the weapon to kill his father, Jarnail Singh, over a property dispute. Rajwinder had bought the pistol to avenge the 1993 murder of his father, Darshan Singh,” the IG added.

Another CIA party, led by ASI Kewal Krishan, arrested Karamjit Singh, Ilyas Khan, Ramzan, Mandeep Singh and Lakhvir Singh with five pistols and an equal number of cartridges. “Raids were conducted after a tip-off that the accused were planning to commit major crimes.

The weapon seller has been identified as Mohammad Akram, a resident of Gangoh in Saharanpur district. We have launched a manhunt to arrest him,” said Rai. Mandeep Sidhu, SSP, said the Sangrur police had seized 14 illegal weapons, all smuggled from UP, this year so far.

“With the latest arrests, we have prevented two murders and other crimes,” the SSP added. Of the nine arrested, six are out on bail in other cases.

 

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Asked whether there are any plans to infuse a dose of confidence among the personnel, Shukla, also the Commandant General of UP Home Guards, said, “Jawans who grow big moustache will be felicitated. This will also enable the jawans to discharge their duties with more confidence and higher morale. Very soon you will see a dynamic home guard.”

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This is a joke, right?

Home Guards has sent a proposal to the Centre to engage personnel of the 95,000-strong auxiliary force in Uttar Pradesh.

As of now, as many as 1,200 home guard jawans have been trained in handling INSAS rifles. “In a recent meeting with officials from the Centre, a proposal was mooted to engage 1,200 jawans of UP Home Guards in border security duties on the India-Nepal border during non-flood period of the year, and during floods, the jawans will be participating in flood relief operations,” Surya Kumar Shukla, DG, Home Guards, told PTI today.