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31 years after staged shootout, three UP cops
get the noose
Friday April 05, 2013 05:12:31 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
Three decades after the cold-blooded shooting of 12 villagers and
a police official, a special CBI court Friday sentenced three
Uttar Pradesh Police personnel to death and five others to life in
jail.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Friday pronounced
the sentences on the 18 police personnel convicted in the March
12, 1982 staged shootout killing of the residents of Madhopur
village in Gonda district. The 10 other convicts have died during
the period of the trial.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) K.P. Singh was also killed
in the incident.
Suspecting that the killing was staged, his widow Vibha Singh and
Allahabad-based social activist Chitranjan Singh had filed
separate petitions in the Supreme Court (SC) which had ordered a
CBI prove into the matter.
The premier investigative agency began its probe in 1984 and found
19 police officials to be involved. Charge-sheets were filed
against all the accused and in March, after 31 years of legal
process, the special CBI court convicted 18 people while accused
Prem Singh was let off due to want of sufficient evidence.
CBI judge Rajendra Singh, in his judgment, said there was enough
evidence for capital punishment against the then Kaudia station
house office (SHO) R.B. Saroj, the then constable Ram Karan Yadav,
and head constable R.N. Pandey for plotting to kill the DSP.
Ramakant Dixit, Nasim Ahmad, Mangla Singh, Rajendra Prasad Singh
and Pervez Hussain were given life sentences for facilitating the
crime.
Police officials privy to the case informed IANS that all the
accused awarded the death and life sentence had retired from
service while only Pandey was still serving and is currently
posted as a a sub-inspector in Jaunpur.
Reacting to the sentence, the widows of the victims demanded that
the state government give their families ex-gratia payment of
Rs.25 lakh each, pension and construct an inter college at
Madhopur in the memory of the slain DSP. They have also asked the
state government to give jobs to one member from each family that
suffered in the staged shootouts.
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