The city court has issued non-bailable warrants for 11 police personnel in an alleged fake encounter case where an MBA youth, a native of Meerut who had gone to Dehradun in search of job, was killed in a cold-blooded manner by pumping 29 bullets in his body in 2009.
The special judge, V.K. Maheshwari, ordered that the personal bond which the accused persons had submitted before the court during their bail are to be forfeited and “issue non-bailable warrants against them and notice to their sureties”.
The judge declared the order as the accused persons, who allegedly gunned down Ranbir Singh in a fake encounter, who accused the victim to be a thief and dacoit, failed to surrender before the court despite being summoned, as their bail application was rejected by the Delhi HC on May 11.
There are overall 18 police officials involved in the alleged fake encounter case, among which seven are already in the judicial custody but the remaining 11 accused persons were out on earlier bails issued by the sessions judge in Dehardun.
It was revealed in a probe that the 11 police personnel misused their official position and manipulated and changed the official chargesheet of non-bailable offence into a nominal bailable offence.
The case was transferred to Delhi in 2011 after the complainant, Ranbir Singh’s father, requested that the matter be transferred to a CBI court in Delhi as the probe was slow due to the influence of the local police.