Deepak Boxer fears fake encounter in UP, Delhi court asks cops to ensure safety

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has directed jail authorities and Delhi Police to ensure the safety and security of Deepak Boxer in case he is produced before a court in Uttar Pradesh in view of a threat to his life.
"Superintendent Jail concerned as well as DCP DAP III Battalion are directed to ensure that accused Deepak Pahal @ Boxer is produced before courts in UP in proper custody and security and if required may be handcuffed to ensure his proper safety," said the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria on Thursday.
Boxer submitted before the court that he had received threats and expressed the apprehension that he might be shot dead while being produced in courts in UP. While seeking an extension of police custody of five days on Thursday, Delhi Police submitted that the accused has to be confronted with an accused Dinesh Mathur alias Karala for investigation of the case of fleeing to Mexico on a fake passport. The court extended police custody of Boxer for further two days in the fake passport case. He was produced after eight days of remand by Delhi Police's Special Cell.
Advocate Virender Mual, appearing for Boxer, had moved an application before the court for necessary directions to the jail superintendent to produce him in handcuffs and clutches with a webcam in court and during transit remand as well as to provide security. "That there is a possibility that UP police may ask for transit remand of the applicant/accused and in that situation, the direction may be passed to take the applicant/accused in high-risk security. The accused is having apprehension of his being eliminated by some interested persons, who are having enmity with him. The applicant has also apprehension that he may become a victim of a fake encounter," the counsel stated.