KANPUR: Seven policemen including a senior sub-inspector (SSI) of police sustained bullet
injuries when the service revolver of an police out-post in-charge allegedly went off accidentally at
Kotwali police station in
Mainpuri district on Wednesday.
All six were admitted to district hospital and are said to be out of danger.
Police sources told TOI,
Ganeshpur Burj police out-post incharge Satendra Pal, who was allegedly sent to lines over dereliction of duty on Tuesday by SSP Ajay Shankar Rai, on Wenesday had come to deposit his service revolver at Kotwali police statiopn when the gun went off accidentally. "SSI RK Singh Bhadauria and six other policemen sustained
bullet injuries," Police sources said further.
SSP Ajay Shankar Rai and ASP Om Prakash Singh rushed to the district hospital and inquired doctors about the well being of the policemen undergoing treatment. They admitted that the incident occurred probably owing to negligence. "We are conducting an inquiry in this regard," they said.
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