Fifteen policemen, including the then station officer of Gomti Nagar police station, a sub-inspector and 13 constables, have been booked in a fake encounter case on charges of murder, tampering of evidence and Arms Act.
The case was lodged by the CB-CID that investigated the alleged encounter at Gomti Nagar police station on Wednesday night.
The “encounter” that took place on June 8, 2006 in front of house number 5/929, Vishal Khand in which the cops had claimed to have killed a “notorious criminal” was found to be fake.
The criminal they claimed to have killed was later identified as Suresh Gangapari, a native of Unnao and a resident of Kanpur.
The CB-CID found in its investigation that the encounter was fake and also detected fraud in the shells and cartridges shown to have been used in the encounter.
The probe agency found that the bullet shell shown to have been used by the criminal had actually been shot from the weapons used by the cops. Similarly, the CB-CID has found many other anomalies in the sequence of events. Interestingly, it was after this encounter that sub-inspector Anjani Rai got an out-of-turn promotion and is currently posted as inspector at Haidergarh police station in Barabanki.
The cops who have been booked are Ramanand Yadav, the then station officer of Gomtinagar police station, sub-inspector Anjani Rai and constables Banshidhar, Manvendra, Vinod Shukla and others.