Firozabad,

5 April (HS): The Eka police station in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh and

the Special Operations Group (SOG) team arrested seven members of an

inter-district cattle theft gang in an encounter on Sunday. Police admitted

three of the accused, who were injured by bullets in the leg, to the hospital

for treatment.

Additional

Superintendent of Police (Rural) Anuj Chaudhary said that a case was registered

at Eka police station on April 3 that unknown thieves had stolen a buffalo tied

on the roadside outside a house at night. The police started searching for the

thieves. Station in-charge Eka Sanjul Kumar Pandey was on patrol in the area

with the police team on Sunday when they received information that the accused

wanted in the buffalo theft case were roaming in a four-wheeler Max pickup near

Nagla Dharu, planning to commit another crime today. When the police, along

with the SOG team, surrounded the vehicle and stopped it, the suspects in the

vehicle opened fire on the police team. In the retaliatory firing done by the

police team in self-defense, three accused were injured by bullets in their legs

and the remaining accused were surrounded and arrested from the spot.

The

injured accused have been identified as Salim alias Dhumi alias Bhumi son of

Alam, Kallu alias Kalua alias Firoz son of Natthu, Jumman Shah alias Jumman

Khan son of Amru. The accused caught in the siege have been identified as

Shahzad son of Gulab Khan, Afsar son of Anwar Khan, Faisal son of Furqan, Rahul

son of Shivkumar. Three illegal pistols with 06 live and 04 empty cartridges,

Rs 14,000, a buffalo, a calf (buffalo calf) and the Max pickup vehicle used in

the incident have been seized from the possession of the accused.

The

ASP stated that the arrested accused are wanted in cattle theft case registered

at Eka police station. The three injured accused have been admitted to the

hospital under police custody for treatment. Further necessary legal

proceedings are underway.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi