Train chase, child held at gunpoint, then 2 ‘encounters’: Inside UP police operation
Police said the two men, wanted in robbery and snatching cases, were travelling on a train from Ghaziabad to Jharkhand, which was scheduled to halt at Shikohabad railway station in Firozabad.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team from Etawah travelled nearly 81 km to Shikohabad and laid a trap at the railway station.
According to police, when officers boarded the train to locate them, the assailants got off.
One of them allegedly grabbed a nine-year-old child, who was heading home from school, outside the station and held a pistol to the child’s head. Police claimed they used the child as a human shield while firing at the pursuing officers.
Police chased them on their motorcycles. After a distance, the suspects abandoned the vehicle and fled in different directions, police said.
The pursuing team split into two and gave chase. “One of the assailants, Sumit Yadav alias Vivek, opened fire. Police fired back; he sustained gunshot wounds and died,” said a police officer.
Police said the second suspect, Ankit alias Seepu, fled into nearby fields. Police gave chase for 2 km before reinforcements from the Firozabad Police joined the pursuit. Ankit fired at them, said police, and a second constable, Pushpendra Chaudhary, suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Despite the injuries to their colleague, officers said the police teams continued the chase, surrounding the suspect in the fields. Another exchange of fire followed and Ankit was shot, they said. He later died of injuries.
Additional Director General of Police (Agra Zone) S K Bhagat, who reached the scene after the incident, said the confrontation took place in broad daylight after police tracked the two suspects following a tip-off. He said officers pursued the pair after they allegedly held a child at gunpoint while trying to evade arrest.
Sumit was a resident of Lucknow and Ankit was from Etawah. Both were in their 20s and carried rewards of Rs 25,000 each, police said.
Both injured constables from the Etawah police, also in their 20s, are undergoing treatment.
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