Two Injured, Two Arrested In Late-Night Police Encounter In UP’s Khurja

Two miscreants have been injured and two others were arrested in a late-night encounter on Sunday, November 16, during a checkpoint in Khurja near Kasairu Cut in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, said CO Purnima Singh.

According to the CO, four people riding two bikes were asked to stop by the police team, but they opened fire. The police retaliated, injuring Aman, son of Rajendra, of Aligarh, and Govind, son of Shahboo, of Kannauj.

Their accomplices, Kanhaiya, son of Rajendra, Aligarh, and Shivam, son of Hukum Singh, Kannauj, were arrested.

The police recovered Rs 12,000, two illegal pistols, and two bikes. The injured were sent to the Central Medical Commission for treatment.

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A cases of theft and robbery have been registered against the four, and further legal action is underway.

In a separate incident, an alleged robber was shot in the chest and nabbed in UP’s Shahjahanpur on Sunday after a gunfight, police said. A constable also sustained a bullet wound in his hand in the confrontation, they said.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Dwivedi told PTI that on November 6, a man was robbed of Rs 3 lakh in the Seharamau area. On Saturday, the Lucknow unit of the Special Task Force (STF) arrested Gopal alias Manish from Allahganj and Ravi Mishra from Hardoi, who were allegedly involved in the robbery.

On Sunday afternoon, police received a tip that the gang’s leader, 20-year-old Abbas Gazi, was traveling from Hardoi to Shahjahanpur with his associates to commit a major crime. A police team then spotted three men riding a motorcycle near the district boundary.

As they chased the motorcyclists, they were shot at. The police fired back, hitting Gazi in the chest, Dwivedi said. He was rushed to a hospital and later transferred to Lucknow in critical condition.

(With inputs from agencies)