‘Do not shoot me’: Man with placard round neck surrenders earlier than police in UP | Lucknow Information

GONDA (UP): With a placard hung round his neck that learn “I’ve come to give up, do not shoot me”, a person needed in a loot case surrendered earlier than the police in UP’s Gonda, officers mentioned on Wednesday.
The person, recognized as Ankit Verma, had been on the run for the previous six months, they added.
“It’s a results of the concern of the police among the many criminals that they’re surrendering,” Circle Officer (CO) Navina Shukla mentioned.
Earlier additionally, there have been reviews from totally different elements of Uttar Pradesh of needed criminals strolling into police stations to surrender earlier than the legislation, fearing robust police motion and demolition of their properties with the assistance of bulldozers.
PTI quoted particular director basic (Legislation and Order) Prashant Kumar as sayong that the state police is working in accordance with the chief minister’s directions of “zero tolerance” in the direction of crime and criminals.
Studies recommend that greater than 50 needed criminals surrendered earlier than the police in numerous elements of the state inside a fortnight of chief minister Yogi Adityanath returning to energy early final yr.
On Tuesday, Verma reached the Chhapia police station with a placard hung round his neck and shouted, “I’ve come to give up, do not shoot me,” he mentioned.
The placard additionally carried the identical message in his handwriting, the police officer mentioned.
One Amarjit Chauhan of Mahuli Khori village in Gonda had filed a criticism with the police alleging that when he was coming back from a school on February 20 on a bike, two males stopped him close to Piprahi bridge and looted his two-wheeler, cell phone and pockets at gunpoint, the CO mentioned.
Subsequently, a case of theft was lodged and through investigation, the names of Ankit Verma and one other particular person got here to the fore, Shukla mentioned, including superintendent of police Ankit Mittal then introduced a reward of Rs 20,000 on their arrest.
Station home officer Suresh Kumar Verma mentioned the person was positioned underneath arrest and different authorized formalities had been carried out.
The give up of the person earlier than the go to of Adityanath right here is being described by the police as a “huge achievement”.
Studies recommend that as many as 183 alleged criminals have been killed by the police in encounters within the six years of Adityanath’s authorities within the state.
With PTI inputs