One arrested in Varanasi mall shoot out case

  • | Friday | 2nd November, 2018

VARANASI: The police on Friday arrested one of the accused of mall shoot out case Rohit Singh, while three others are still absconding. Two persons were killed and two others were injured in shoot out on October 31.The SSP Anand Kulkarni and SP (crime) Gyanendra Prasad paraded the arrested person before the press. Being employee of a showroom, he managed the entry of Alok and two others with arms in the mall. The arrested person is a native of Bhabhua district (Bihar) and currently living in Nirala Nagar locality of the city. He said that the sister of Alok’s girl friend worked at a show room at the mall.

VARANASI: The police on Friday arrested one of the accused of mall shoot out case Rohit Singh, while three others are still absconding. Raids are being conducted to nab the absconding accused. The police had announced a reward of Rs. 25,000 on each accused. Two persons were killed and two others were injured in shoot out on October 31.The SSP Anand Kulkarni and SP (crime) Gyanendra Prasad paraded the arrested person before the press. The SSP said that 12 teams of police and crime branch had been constituted to conduct raids at all possible places in UP and Bihar. Acting on a tip off, the crime branch team succeeded in nabbing Rohit near Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath area. The arrested person is a native of Bhabhua district (Bihar) and currently living in Nirala Nagar locality of the city. Among the absconding accused Alok Upadhyaya is native of Balua area of Chandauli district , Rishabh Singh alias Rishu and Kundan Singh are native of Ara district (Bihar).During interrogation Rohit revealed that he and Alok are students of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith . Both of them live in a rented room in Nirala Nagar area. He said that the sister of Alok’s girl friend worked at a show room at the mall. She accused a co-worker Prashat of misbehaving with her. She lost her job when Alok threatened Prashant to stay away from her.He further revealed that they planned to kill Prashant after calling him outside the mall, but he could not be found. Being employee of a showroom, he managed the entry of Alok and two others with arms in the mall. But, Kundan and Rishabh started firing when they saw that Alok was overpowered by the employees of showrooms. After knowing that two persons were killed they went underground. Alok, Rishabh and Kundar left the city, while he was also planning to leave for Bihar when the police caught him.Two persons, Gopi Kannojiya (21), resident of Pandeypur and Sunil Kumar Gaud (50), a resident of Meerapur Basahi, were killed in the firing while Chandan Sharma and Vishal Singh were injured. FIR was lodged at Cantt police station under sections 302, 307, 34 of IPC, 7 CLA Act and 3(2) SC/ST Act. Taking a serious note of the incident, the SSP sent Cantt Inspector Rajiv Ranjan Upadhyaya and Nadesar outpost in charge Pradeep Yadav to lines.

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