Uttarakhand police has launched a search for two companions of an MBA graduate who was killed in an alleged fake encounter, and also a key eyewitness.
Uttarakhand police has launched a search for two companions of an MBA graduate who was killed in an alleged fake encounter, and also a key "eyewitness", who have gone missing since the incident last week, even as no arrests have been made so far despite a murder case being registered against 14 policemen.
A police team, which was sent to Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh in search of the two youths who were accompanying 22-year-old Ranbir Singh on a motorcycle when they were stopped by police during checking, ahead of the 'encounter' last Friday, returned today empty handed.
The police personnel are being sent to other areas of Meerut and Baghpat districts in search of the two youths whose identities have not been revealed.
Police had claimed that during the search they found a weapon in their bag and they fled with a revolver of a sub-inspector. The boys were intercepted at another place and Ranbir was killed in an encounter while the whereabouts of the other two remain unknown.
Police are also searching for Pervez Anjum, a resident of Dalanwala here, who, it is claimed was an "eyewitness" to the incident, but has gone missing since Friday night.
With an autopsy indicating that Ranbir might have been tortured before being killed, a 15-member CB-CID team was constituted to look into the case.
A case of murder under Section 302 IPC against 14 police personnel involved in the encounter was registered on Sunday night at Raipur police station.
Other eyewitnesses are also being questioned, a police source said.
Although police have maintained that Ranvir was killed after he snatched the service revolver of sub-inspector GD Bhatt, Ranbir's family claimed that he was gunned down in a fake encounter.
"I want justice because my son was killed in a fake encounter," he said soon after meeting chief minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank last evening.
Meanwhile, a police source said Ranvir's family has also filed a complaint against two deputy superintendents of police, which will be probed separately.
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