3 cops booked for looting cash from Lucknow resident
Pathikrit Chakraborty | TNN | Updated: Apr 7, 2019, 17:25 IST
Representative image. LUCKNOW: A Special Task Force (STF)deputy superintendent of police along with an inspector and former SO Banthara of Lucknow were booked for loot of Rs 36 lakh from a city resident in the wee hours of Sunday. The case against the cops was written on the directions of the Uttar Pradesh director general of police.
Senior superintendent of police Lucknow Kalanidhi Naithani told TOI that STF dy SP Vijay Pratap Singh, inspector Zainuddin Ansari also of STF and former inspector of Banthara police station Brijesh Singh have been booked under the charges of loot, prevention of corruption act, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, according to preliminary investigations conducted so far.
A detailed probe will be carried out by CO Krishna Nagar Lal Pratap Singh.
On March 3, the STF had detained a Lucknow resident Lukmaan in possession of Dinars amounting to 36 lakh in Indian currency. Lukmaan was about to board a Dubai flight from Amausi airport when Dy SP of STF Vijay Pratap Singh and an inspector Zainuddin Ansari allegedly abducted him and took him to Banthara police station.
Later, the two cops allegedly looted all the cash and released him.
On March 4 morning, Lukmaan called up inspector general of police (Lucknow range) SK Bhagat and apprised him about the whole incident. The IG then asked SSP Lucknow to conduct an enquiry into the matter.
On the same day, the STF claimed to have recovered Dinars amounting to Rs 36 lakh from Anwarganj in Kanpur. The STF SSP Abhishek Singh had then claimed that Lukmaan was detained and later on his tip-off an STF team raided premises of his acquaintances in Kanpur from where ill-gotten middle east currencies worth Rs 36 lakh were recovered but those men managed to flee. The same was seconded by IG STF Amitabh Yash.
The STF had also released a press note about the seizure of Rs 36 lakh from Anwarganj in Kanpur on March 4.
On the same night, a video of Lukmaan had gone viral. Lukmaan had claimed that STF personnel posing themselves as ATS officials had detained him in Banthara police station, seized Dinars from his possession and threatened to eliminate him in an encounter.
TOI tried calling Lukmaan but he was not available.
Senior superintendent of police Lucknow Kalanidhi Naithani told TOI that STF dy SP Vijay Pratap Singh, inspector Zainuddin Ansari also of STF and former inspector of Banthara police station Brijesh Singh have been booked under the charges of loot, prevention of corruption act, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, according to preliminary investigations conducted so far.
A detailed probe will be carried out by CO Krishna Nagar Lal Pratap Singh.
On March 3, the STF had detained a Lucknow resident Lukmaan in possession of Dinars amounting to 36 lakh in Indian currency. Lukmaan was about to board a Dubai flight from Amausi airport when Dy SP of STF Vijay Pratap Singh and an inspector Zainuddin Ansari allegedly abducted him and took him to Banthara police station.
Later, the two cops allegedly looted all the cash and released him.
On March 4 morning, Lukmaan called up inspector general of police (Lucknow range) SK Bhagat and apprised him about the whole incident. The IG then asked SSP Lucknow to conduct an enquiry into the matter.
On the same day, the STF claimed to have recovered Dinars amounting to Rs 36 lakh from Anwarganj in Kanpur. The STF SSP Abhishek Singh had then claimed that Lukmaan was detained and later on his tip-off an STF team raided premises of his acquaintances in Kanpur from where ill-gotten middle east currencies worth Rs 36 lakh were recovered but those men managed to flee. The same was seconded by IG STF Amitabh Yash.
The STF had also released a press note about the seizure of Rs 36 lakh from Anwarganj in Kanpur on March 4.
On the same night, a video of Lukmaan had gone viral. Lukmaan had claimed that STF personnel posing themselves as ATS officials had detained him in Banthara police station, seized Dinars from his possession and threatened to eliminate him in an encounter.
TOI tried calling Lukmaan but he was not available.
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