A Sitapur police constable, deployed to protect a homicide convict at a Lucknow hospital, shot lifeless the prisoner’s son with an unlawful country-made pistol outdoors the gate of the medical facility on Wednesday night, officers mentioned. After the incident, Ashish Mishra surrendered on the native police station.
Officials mentioned the constable informed them that he blamed Dhruv Kumar’s 34-year-old son Praveen Singh as some current arguments between them had turned bodily, and he feared for his life. However, based mostly on the knowledge obtained to date, the police don’t agree with this declare they usually consider that Mishra is both mentally unstable attributable to some household issues or is making an attempt to idiot the investigators.
Police officers in Sitapur district mentioned Dhruv Kumar was sentenced to life imprisonment on April 16 in a 1997 homicide case. He was admitted to RML Hospital for the remedy of prostate most cancers.
“Dhruv Kumar has been admitted to RML Hospital for treatment. Constable Ashish Mishra was posted under his security since May 25. On Wednesday, while on security duty, he shot and killed Dhruv Kumar’s son with an illegal country-made pistol. Later he himself surrendered at Vibhuti Khand police station. The reason given by Mishra for the murder is not very convincing. He is saying that he felt threatened by Dhruv’s son as he was constantly creating trouble for him and feared for his life. It seems that either the constable is not mentally sound or is trying to fool us,” Lucknow Police Commissioner DK Thakur informed the media.
Senior police officers mentioned right here that the constable killed Singh at round 6 pm. He mentioned that nobody noticed any dispute between the 2. DK Thakur mentioned that he had spoken to the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Sitapur to know Mishra’s household scenario and his background together with psychological situation.
According to officers, the constable is a resident of Badaun and was admitted in 2016. He was in Sitapur Police Lines since September 2017. Police sources mentioned Mishra obtained married two months again and suspected his spouse of getting an extramarital affair. His sister lately knowledgeable a police officer in Hardoi that he’s not of sound thoughts and has suicidal tendencies.
When this was knowledgeable to the Lucknow Police, he was requested at hand over his service rifle to the Vibhuti Khand police station, a senior official mentioned right here.
Asked whether or not the division had any details about Mishra’s alleged suicidal tendencies, Sitapur SP Rakesh Pratap Singh informed The Indian Express that the constable’s sister had known as any “responsible person” in Sitapur to learn about his scenario. not knowledgeable about.
“There was no incident which could show that he was not of sound mind. We have spoken to his friends in the police, his colleagues and his batchmates never noticed anything bad. Absent attendance or indiscipline or drinking alcohol There was never any case,” Singh mentioned.
The SP additional mentioned, “As far as the small print of their rifle are involved, 4 policemen, together with a head constable and three constables, had been deployed with two rifles. [convict’s] Security. At a time, two policemen are armed, and that [Mishra] was not one in every of them. The details about the rifle being completely saved isn’t correct.
A senior Lucknow Police official mentioned that until now investigators consider that Praveen Singh was a random goal and was killed with none particular purpose. Though the police are but to get better the homicide weapon, Mishra has reportedly left the place the place he hid it. Police mentioned Singh’s relations had been on their technique to the capital and an FIR could be lodged after their arrival.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
