FIR against 12 policemen in fake encounter case
Lucknow, Jun 25 (PTI) The CBI has registered an FIR against 12 policemen, including an IPS officer, for their alleged involvement in a fake encounter case.
“The FIR was registered by CBI against 12 policemen on June 23 after conducting the inquiry in the case”, a senior CBI official told PTI.
The policemen against whom the FIR have been registered are J Ravider Gaur, an 2005 batch IPS officer and currently posted as Superintendent of Police Balrampur, inspectors–Vikas Saxena, Mula Singh, Devendra Shamra, R K Gupta, constables– Gauri Shankar Vishwakarma, Ravi Prakash Shukla, Virendra Sharma, Dinesh Singh, Anil Kumar and Kalicharan, he said.
The alleged fake encounter took place in Bareilly C B Ganj area on June 30, 2007, when a youth Mukul Gupta was killed. The police claimed that he was shot dead as he was going to loot a bank.
