A person allegedly excited about Friday’s snatching in Ghaziabad that resulted in the demise of a 19-year-old pupil on Sunday evening was once shot lifeless in an come upon with police akin the Higher Ganga Canal in Masuri at the intervening evening of Sunday and Monday, officers mentioned.
The lady, Kirti Singh, a resident of Hapur and a first-year engineering pupil at a faculty akin Crossings Republik, succumbed to her head accidents at a medical institution on Sunday evening upcoming she fell from a operating auto past making an attempt to withstand the snatching through two bike-borne robbers on Nationwide Freeway (NH) 9 on Friday afternoon.
Police mentioned the suspect, who was once killed, has been known as Jitendra Kumar, a resident of Misalgarhi akin Ghaziabad.
“On the intervening night of October 29/30, a police team spotted two men on two bikes. They were asked to stop but they did not and opened fire at the police. One police sub-inspector got injured during the firing. Police opened retaliatory fire and one of the men on bike sustained a bullet injury while the other fled the spot. The injured man was taken to hospital for treatment, but he was declared dead. He was later identified as Jitendra Kumar, who was wanted in connection with Friday’s robbery incident with the girl student,” DCP (rural), Vivek Chandra Yadav mentioned.
Jitendra Kumar’s partner, Balbir Kumar, was once nabbed from Sikrod all the way through an previous crackdown on Saturday evening. Balbir sustained a bullet trauma to his leg upcoming the police workforce opened retaliatory fireplace at him all the way through the crackdown. He advised police all the way through wondering that he and Jitendra had been allegedly concerned within the theft with the woman pupil.
Police mentioned that they have got recovered Kirti’s robbed cell phone from Balbir.
Kirti had stuck the automobile from outdoor her school along side her good friend, Diksha Jindal, on Friday afternoon. When the automobile were given directly to a flyover on NH-9 akin Masuri, two males on motorbike attempted to seize Kirti’s telephone and she or he fell ill from the operating auto past making an attempt to withstand the robbers. She was once i’m in a hurry to medical institution for remedy with horrific head accidents however died all the way through remedy on Sunday evening.
Inside of hours upcoming the incident, a police workforce preoccupied a number of suspects on motorcycles akin the Higher Ganga Canal akin Masuri. The lady’s public registered a primary data file at Masuri police station.
The DCP mentioned that Jitendra had 12 prison instances towards his identify and a minimum of six of those had been instances of looting, but even so he additionally had a case of the Gangsters Work towards his identify in 2020.
Police mentioned that the station area officer (SHO) of Masuri police station was once suspended as a result of laxity in supervision upcoming the theft incident at the freeway.
