8 cops sacked for negligence after 3 undertrials escape | Lucknow Information
JHANSI: Eight police personnel, together with three sub-inspectors, have been dismissed from service in Jhansi on Friday for dereliction of obligation that led to the escape of three undertrials from the jail van on September 19. The undertrials are nonetheless at massive.
Those that have been dismissed are sub-inspectors Suresh Kumar, Rajendra Kumar Anuragi, and Pankaj Kumar Singh; head constables Jitendra Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Sunil Kumar, and Shivpal Singh, together with constable Amit Kumar.
All eight personnel have been booked below related sections of the IPC and suspended on Friday and dismissed a day later. DIG Jhansi vary, Jogendra Kumar, mentioned that the investigations revealed that the police officers imagined to be on guard on the jail van acted negligently.
After placing again the 5 prisoners introduced on trial within the automobile, the police officers left the unlocked van with none guard, giving the accused an opportunity to flee simply. “The allegations in opposition to them are so critical that preserving them within the police pressure could have a unfavorable impression on different police personnel, and the potential for a serious incident occurring sooner or later can’t be dominated out,” mentioned DIG Kumar.
He mentioned that the motion in opposition to them was taken below rule 8 sub rule 4-(a) of the Uttar Pradesh subordinate class law enforcement officials (punishment and enchantment) guidelines 1991.
On Tuesday, three undertrials, Gaya Prasad Ahirwar, Shailendra and Brijendra Singh, all from MP who have been lodged in Jhansi district jail on numerous offences pertaining to railways, escaped from the jail van whereas they have been being introduced for a listening to within the native court docket of ACJM Railway.
Then again, CCTV footage of the railway station circulating space has gone viral, exhibiting all three accused escaping from the unmanned jail van very simply, inflicting a serious embarrassment to the police.
