Four police personnel, including an IPS officer Aparna Gupta, were suspended on Friday by the Uttar Pradesh government for laxity in the probe into the kidnapping and murder of the Kanpur lab technician.
Kanpur| The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government came under heavy fire over rising crime in the state after a Kanpur man was allegedly killed by his kidnappers even after the ransom was paid.
According to UP Police on Friday, a lab technician Sanjeet Yadav was killed by his kidnappers. Yadav continued to remain missing amid the allegations that Rs 30 lakh ransom was paid by his family in the presence of police.
Four police personnel, including an IPS officer Aparna Gupta, were suspended on Friday by the Uttar Pradesh government for laxity in the probe into the kidnapping and murder of the Kanpur lab technician.
According to the police, the lab technician was killed within one week of being held captive. His body, though, remains yet to be found.
An enquiry has been set up into the matter of Rs 30 lakh that was allegedly given by the deceased’s family as a ransom to the kidnappers. The new ADG Police Head Quarters BP Jogdand will further probe into the missing sum of money according to the latest orders.
In order to nab the culprit the police forced them to arrange Rs 30 lakh, put them in a bag and then hand them over to the kidnappers, the family members of the deceased have been alleging since the start.
The family members, on the one hand, have claimed that the kidnappers escaped with the money in front of the cops, after which SSP Kanpur Dinesh Kumar met the victim’s family and assured that their kin will return within four days. The police, however, have been claiming that the deceased’s family members did not give any money to the kidnappers.
SSP Kanpur Dinesh Kumar, talking to reporters, informed that a team of Crime Branch and Surveillance Cell was formed to probe the case and few people had been detained including two of the deceased’s friends.
“On June 23, missing complaint of a man, Sanjeet Yadav was registered at Barra Police Station and on June 26 an FIR was registered. His family received a ransom call on June 29 and based on probe some people have been taken into custody including his two friends. During interrogation, they revealed that the victim was murdered by them on 26-27 June & the body was disposed off in Pandu river. Teams have been formed to recover the body,” Dinesh Kumar said.
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