UP Cops Suspended After Planting Gun To Arrest Plumber In A Fake Case (Image:twitter.com/piyushrai)
Three police officers from Uttar Pradesh”s Meerut on Friday were suspended after allegedly implanting a country-made gun on a scooter of a plumber.
The accused police persons of the Kithore Police Station – Head constable Chaubey Singh, Constable Omveer Singh, and Constable (driver) Anil Kumar – were failed to reveal the recovery of the pistol from the scooter, reported the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).
The scooter was owned by a local plumber named Firoz, and the gun was recovered from his vehicle on Thursday.
The three, according to the Senior Superintendent of Police Rohit Singh Sajwan, are now under suspension on charges of “laxity in discharge of their duties”. Mr Sajwan also informed the media that the “three [accused] did not inform their seniors about the recovery nor carried out the procedure as per law, which shows laxity in discharge of duty on their part, and also tarnishes the image of the police department”.
Mr Firoz on Thursday had come up with a video accusing the police of planting the pistol inside his scooter with specific purpose of obtaining money from him. He alleged that the police forced him to pay Rs 50,000 as bribe to release his scooter from the police station. Police checked the CCTV and dismissed his allegation as false, says PTI.
In UP”s Meerut, a plumber Firoz alleged policemen planted a country made pistol in his scooty, confiscated his scooty (seen in CCTV footage) and threatened family with Firoz”s encounter. Firoz allegedly paid Rs 50k bribe for release of his scooty from police station. The money… pic.twitter.com/WIJvmKceEZ
— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) September 29, 2023
There are also other versions which claims that the money was returned after media reports.
The incident came shortly after a coaching centre teacher of the same city (Meerut) was arrested and kept in custody on charges of being an arms smuggler after the police recovered a pistol from his motorcycle. It was later discovered with help of CCTV footages that the pistol recovered was allegedly planted by a policeman himself.
Two Meerut police constables – Santosh Kumar and Dinesh Kumar – on Tuesday night allegedly planted a country-made gun in a motor bike owned by Rohit Tyagi, a resident of the city. The bike was parked in his residential compound and the cops aimed to frame Mr Tyagi”s 26-year old brother Ankit Tyagi, a teacher, reported the Times of India.
