UP Police will get two gallantry medals | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh police has been awarded two medals for gallantry, seven President’s medals for distinguished providers and 74 medals of meritorious service, on Republic Day this yr.
The coveted gallantry medal was awarded to director normal, regulation and order, Prashant Kumar throughout his stint as Extra DG Meerut Zone after which SSP Meerut Manzil Saini, who’s at present on a deputation with the Nationwide Safety Guard (NSG) in Delhi.
Each the officers have been concerned in supervision and subsequent rescue of a Delhi based mostly physician Shrikant Goud in July 2017 who was kidnapped by an Ola cab driver and held captive for 14 days in Meerut for a five-crore ransom. After a cat-and-mouse chase and two misses, the Delhi police in joint operation with Meerut police had rescued Shrikant Goud in a half-constructed constructing in Meerut and arrested 4 of the abductors after a shootout. The arrested accused have been Pramod Kumar (44), Amit Kumar (37), Sohanveer (49) and Nepal (44).
The police group, which rescued Goud, had posed as representatives of Ola and negotiated with the abductors. Till his rescue on July 19, Goud was held captive in locations similar to Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Baghpat, Hapur, Meerut, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Haridwar.
The gang members additionally took images and movies of the physician begging for water and despatched them to his household to scare them into paying up rapidly. Whereas in hiding, the gang had posed as kanwariyas, in order to make sure that no one suspected them.
“It was a seamless coordination of the officers on the bottom and we have been on toes monitoring the entire operation,” mentioned Director Basic, Legislation and Order, Prashant Kumar. This was his fourth gallantry medal. In the meantime, Manzil Saini received her first gallantry medal and she or he is ready to return to UP cadre after finishing her tenure of deputation with the NSG.