An innocent life lost in a country full of extremists
From a team of Uttar Pradesh police officers a group of officials face murder charges in neighbouring village of Uttarakhand.
According to the information, a team of Uttar Pradesh Police in plain clothes arrived here for a raid at the residence of Gurtaj Bhullar, a BJP’s local area Block President, in Bharatpur village under the Kunda police station area on Wednesday evening.
The raid was to nab a wanted dumper driver from Thakurdwara in Uttar Pradesh, who was allegedly hiding at Bhullar’s house.
The UP police team had gone to a village in Jaspur in Uttarakhand on Wednesday to catch a criminal called Zafar, believed to be involved in the mining mafia.
The family of Bhullar opposed the police action and allegedly clashed with them.
Their argument went on for half an hour, before it turned violent and saw firing from both the sides.
It was alleged that a bullet shot by the Uttar Pradesh Police personnel hit Bhullar’s wife Gurpreet Kaur, who died on the spot.
Five policemen from UP’s Moradabad were also injured in the incident.
The policemen then were surrounded by angry villagers, allegedly took four policemen hostage and took away their weapons restrained the Uttar Pradesh Police personnel, and badly thrashed them, leaving them seriously injured.
Two UP police officials were also shot at in the clash.
While five policemen are being treated at a hospital, a search is on for the two missing cops.
As per the reports, the Uttarakhand Police were not aware of the operation launched by UP Police in the state and neither were they informed.
Gurtaj Bhullar has alleged that there is a larger conspiracy behind the death of his wife. Speaking to The media and public he said that he wanted a CBI investigation into the matter as they did not use any weapons, instead, they handed them over to the police.
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