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Dirty cops kill youth with point
blank shot, then claim potholes road was reason
WSN Network
Bhiwani: A
lawless group of drunk Haryana policemen in a shocking show of brute
force shot from pointblank range a 22-year-old college student
returning home from a party . Later, equally blatantly senior police
officers claimed they had mistaken him for a wanted criminal and the
revolver went off because of a pothole in the road.
Kuldeep Kumar
was returning home from a party at his friend’s place on Sunday
night when the cops in civvies (not in their uniforms) asked them to
halt. He and his friends did not. The cops chased them down at
Tosham Chowk, a little distance away, and were so enraged with
Kuldeep Kumar, a BA final year student of
Vaish College
and resident of Dabra colony on his bike, that they shot him in the
temple with a service revolver.
As wails of
protest against the killing went across the state, coming as it does
barely five months after another “fake encounter”, the police on
Monday acted swiftly and arrested constable Karamvir, who fired the
bullet, while booking seven others in a case of murder.
Kuldeep was to
get married next month. Later, after the killing, the cops asked
everyone to run away.
As news spread,
angry relatives and friends along with other local residents began
pelting stones at the police at Ghantaghar Chowk and set afire a
motorcycle. Police had to use mild force and lathicharge to control
the rampaging crowd.
Four fake
encounters have been reported since December 2006. Police had shot a
youth in Bhiwani village this June; 2 others were killed earlier in
Dawla and Dulhera villages of Jhajjar.
The family of
the victim has demanded a CBI inquiry.
Not
surprisingly, A K Rao, SP, Hisar, tried to defend his men and said,
quite incredibly, that it was a case of “accidental fire” in which
the gun of a cop went off due to poor condition of the road. “The
police had stopped the motorcycle after it received information that
Dara Singh, an accused in a bank robbery, was hiding in Bhiwani,” he
said. “But when the police asked the motorcycle to stop, the youths
tried to flee.”
A friend riding
pillion on Kuldip’s bike, however, said the drunk cops fired on them
indiscriminately without warning and left without bothering to take
the 21-year-old to hospital once they realised their mistake.
Karambir
Singh, the constable who pulled the trigger, has been arrested.
5 November
2008
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