BJP leader's wife killed in crossfire between UP Police, villagers in Uttarakhand: Check details
Udham Singh Nagar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manjunath TC said the Uttar Pradesh Police team did not inform their Uttarakhand counterparts about the action in advance. Following the incident, angry villagers blocked the highway in protest.
FollowThe wife of a local BJP leader was killed and five others injured when residents of an Uttarakhand village clashed with an Uttar Pradesh Police team that had arrived there to arrest a man accused of illegal sand mining, an official said. Four of the injured are personnel of UP Police, two of them with gunshot wounds, the police said.
According to reports, the clash took place on Wednesday night in Bharatpur village near Kashipur in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district.
The policemen had come from adjacent Moradabad district looking for Jafar, alleged to be a member of a mining mafia.
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Acting on a tip-off, a Special Operations Group (SOG) of Thakurdwara police station in Moradabad district reached Bharatpur to raid the house of BJP leader and Jaspur senior block pramukh Gurtaj Bhullar in search of Jafar, UP Police said.
When they reached Bhullar's house, an argument broke out. Both sides allegedly resorted to firing in which Bhullar's wife Gurpreet, who was returning home from work, was killed.
Udham Singh Nagar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manjunath TC said the Uttar Pradesh Police team did not inform their Uttarakhand counterparts about the action in advance. Following the incident, angry villagers blocked the highway in protest.
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Kashipur MLA Trilok Singh Cheema, Gadarpur MLA Arvind Pandey and former MP Balraj Passi joined the protesters. The blockade was lifted at 11 pm after persuasion by the district police.
Uttarakhand Police has registered a case against Uttar Pradesh Police personnel under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 302 (murder), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 120-b (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code following a complaint lodged by the deceased's family.
Moradabad Senior Superintendent of Police Hemant Kutiyal said four injured policemen had been admitted to a private hospital in Moradabad.
(With inputs from PTI)
